BLINDSPOT-REPATA LUV

TLOHL (THE LOVE OF HER LIFE

After an unknown ally sends the exiled CIRG Team a message (tattoo pop) which they
decode and discover the CIA is holding Rich at one of their 'black sites.' The team decides
to rescue him before he's traded to North Korea. Zapata had known all along where he was, and THAT news isn't well received by the other four-especially RICH.

ADULT LANGUAGE

Rich Dot Com had suffered TERRIBLY. CIA black site protocols allow their operatives to do pretty much whatever they please to *enemies of the republic*: water-boarding, electric shocks to genitals, 'stress positions'-by the way: Rich was NEVER CHARGED WITH A CRIME, and the black site he was being held in (of course) did not exist...a taTtoo pops, and the Team formulates a plan to rescue him.

"I KNOW WHERE RICH IS" Zapata announces, while the rest of the team debates the logistics of rescuing him. 

"I'm sorry-WHAT!?" is one of the several cries of surprise and yeah: outrage the others make. She has  a pretty good reason why she's revealing this information now, rather than before: "Rich was safer where he is-them thinking that he knows where we are is the only reason they haven't killed him. I was trying to figure it out."

He'd suffered 'WALLING'-the back of his head had been smashed against wooden planks nailed to a concrete wall. The purpose is of this is to 'stir up' Rich's inner ears; one interrogator had joked "If they feel pain, you're doing it wrong" ...In the "DOG BOX", they left him chained in a fetal position for hours, with him screaming the entire time from the agonizing muscle spasms. 'SHORT SHACKLING' was when he was shackled with his hands connected to his ankles in a squatting position, hooded so that he could not see-that went on for hours as well. And the nightmares are back-in force. He knew that his team would come for him, and they had; he's NOT BACK IN THAT CIA BLACK SITE, where his balls are about to receive their daily electrical jolt. The team had come for them, as he knew that they would. He's 'home and dry'...he slides off of his bunk, stretching as he toddles to the bathroom singing that Gerry Rafferty tune famous
in the late '70's low and off-key:

"This silver bird takes me...across the sky...just one more hour and I'll be...home and dry;
'Cross the ocean, way above the clouds I come stealin'...Feelin' tired, but I feel good
Cause I did everything I said I would I think of you, and I know how you'll be feelin'...

Funny how you remember song lyrics you haven't thought of in YEARS...dressing for the day his mind goes back to the day he first arrived at their 'new home': how he hugged and kissed everyone, all except ONE; he'd asked "Hey...where's Reade? Is he on an 'op', or?....
Tasha averted her eyes, Patterson stifled a sob; Jane's eyes skittered left, then right, before settling on a far wall...Weller just made a type of noise he never thought he'd ever make the Big Bearded One make: a sort of 'whine', quickly stifled. Zapata said "He's not coming" in
a strangely hollow voice.

"He didn't need to die...we just HAD to run that last op in Iceland; we could have stopped this: WE SHOULD HAVE CUT AND RUN..but NO; YOU had to do one more mission, Kurt. IF WE HAD JUST DISAPPEARED LIKE I WANTED TO Reade... IS ON US. HE'S GONE; And I just need to be DONE-no more tattoos, no more taking down Madeline, and OUR JOBS-what have you been smoking!?

"Reade would have wanted us to go on," Jane says.

"Hey, Jane? You know SHIT about what Reade wanted...there's YOUR MAN, standing right over there. So maybe you should keep your DEEP INSIGHTS into what MY MAN felt and thought to yourself. Just tell me, Kurt...what ELSE is all of this gonna cost us?!"
And she's gone.

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Rich follows her later, knocks on the door to her 'bedroom'. "Hey, ahhh...I'm so sorry about Reade, and Thanks for coming to get
me from the black site."