Agent Arizona: Season 10

Out of Mind

Carolina had reached the island and was standing on top of a ledge. She takes off her helmet and pinches her nose. 

"I'm sorry, Zone. Sorry I didn't listen. I just...I don't understand. Why her? Why Tex?" Epsilon appears on Carolina's Mongoose, not far behind her.

"Tex?" Church questions. Carolina turns and glares at him. 

"You." 

"Ah, crap." 

"Let me guess, just...wanted some information." 

"Carolina I don't-" 

"You don't have a clue, do you? You and your friends just think I'm some blood-thirsty merc with a bad attitude. But you know what? You're wrong. I'm much worse." 

"Look, you go and round up everyone I know just to bring me back, and then you keep us all in the dark? What did you think was going to happen, Carolina? Of course no one trusts you!" 

"Well I don't trust them, Epsilon. I don't trust anyone anymore." 

"Oh, why not? Because having friends would ruin the whole "psychotic loner" thing you got going on? 'Cause that would be a real shame." 

"It's because I had a team once." Carolina looks down. "A team with the best training, the best equipment, and despite everything that they had that made them the best, they still lied, and stole, and tore each other to pieces! So you tell me: How am I supposed to trust a rag-tag team of idiots when I couldn't even trust the people that were close to me?!" 

Church looks away for a moment and then vanishes.

"That's what I thought." Carolina mutters before turning away from. 

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-

"I never thought I'd say this, but I can't sleep." Grif sighs. 

"Yes, we know! You've been shoveling food into your mouth for an hour!" Simmons groans in disgust. 

"Yeah, what's up with that?" Tucker asks sitting up from the ground. 

"It's a nervous habit, okay?" 

"No: where in the world does someone find potato chips in the middle of the desert?!" 

"Ah, quit your complaining. Carolina is probably miles away by now. The only thing we've got to worry about are sand fleas...and that other highly trained operative on patrol outside." Sarge states aloud. 

"Wow. You have a way with words that just immediately makes me want to kill myself." Tucker says before falling on his back. 

"Look, it's like your little fairy friend said." 

"I thought Donut was your friend?" 

"He means Church." Simmons clarifies. 

"All we've got to do is stick together, and everything will be just fine." 

"Well somebody probably should've told Caboose that, 'cause he's gone." Grif says as everyone looks around realizing that Caboose was missing. 

Back at the island Carolina was looking up at the sun setting. 

"C-C-Carolina?" Church says flickering. 

"I'm done talking to you." Carolina replies not looking at him. 

"Carolina, I think I found something you might want to s-see." Church persists. 

"Really? What might that be?" 

A familiar green figure replaces Epsilon. "A memory." 

"Delta?!" 

"We must be brief. Epsilon is struggling to remember."