Chapter 8

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Nathan and Haley runs for their life across the runaway, as the sun rises.

The nearest building in the small, barren airport, is one-story Control Tower. They see a Control Tower in the distance, and heads for it.

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Boyer gets out of his cell.

"They've escaped!"

But as soon as Boyer turns around, he realizes Tom Shealy holding a gun on him. Boyer is shocked.

"What is this?"

"It's nothing personal Frank. All Kozlow wants are he kids. He has no intention of harming anyone."

One of the agents comes from behind Boyer, and handcuffs him.

"Why, Tom? Why?"

"You know why, Frank."

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As soon as Nathan and Haley enters the tower, they see two air traffic controllers standing inside. When they turn around, Nathan and Haley realizes, they're not Air Traffic Controllers at all...

It's Viktor Kozlow and his partner, Becker.

"Hello, kids."

With nowhere to run, they slowly walk backwards out of the Tower, back on the runway.

"There's nowhere to go, my friends."

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Nathan slowly wakes up, tied to a chair, inside a hotel room. He has a rag in his mouth, causing him to breathe loudly through his nose. He drearily looks around, and sees that Viktor Kozlow is sitting across from him... as Karen and Haley is tied up in a chair next to him—rag in mouth, as well.

Kozlow motions for Becker to take the rag out of Nathan's mouth.

Nathan stares at Kozlow intently, while Becker takes it out.

Kozlow smiles.

"At last we meet."

"Why are they here?"

"Because they mean something to you, especially the little one."

"Let them go. I don't care what you do to me... just let them go."

"Thank you for further proving my point."

Nathan looks around the room. He sees the CN Tower outside the large window. It's a beautiful structure, with a big, gorgeous blue sky surrounding it.

"Astonishing view, isn't it? I thought it would be serendipitous to bring you here, before we take you back to Odessa.

"I don't get it."

"This is the room where your mother took her last breath."

Nathan immediately knows he's right. His anger begins to swell inside him.

"You killed her..."

"That's not true, Nathan. I had no intention of killing your mother."

"Bullshit."

"Well, you should know better than anyone... you guys were in the room when it happened."

"What are you talking about?"

"You don't remember, do you?"

"It's a funny thing, the human mind. I've outsmarted some of the world's finest leaders covered my tracks meticulously, systematically over the years. I take great pride in my attention to detail. But in this hotel room, I made one tiny, colossal mistake... I forgot to check under the bed."

"The bed?"

"I'm not a monster, Nathan. It's not my style to kill a lowly CIA analyst. But, she sacrificed her life, so that you guys could live yours..."

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Kozlow adjusts his seat closer to Nathan.

"Martin, at his core, is an evil soul, Nathan. He has no moral code. Well, I'm going to take a page from his notebook. I'm going to let it be known that I have Martin Price's son and daughter... And when he comes to get you guys, which I know he will... he's going to find you guys cut up in a thousand pieces... starting with your ears..."

Kozlow touches Nathan's ears.

"Then your eyes..."

Suddenly, three bullets pearce through the window, hitting one of the agents in the head and chest. He drops to the floor instantaneously.

Everyone else spreads in different directions—hiding behind walls. Kozlow, Becker and Tom Shealy get out their guns.

Silence... as a pool of blood develops under one of the agents' head.

Nathan, Karen and Haley are in the middle of the room in full view. Karen and Haley are curing.

Everyone looks out the window to see where the bullets come from.

As Tom peaks out from behind the wall, he gets shot through his right eye. Blood splatters, as he drops to the ground with a thud.

"Where is he!?" Kozlow yelled out in Ukranian.

Becker takes a small mirror to get a look out the window. The reflection shows a man in black, way off on the distance on top of he CN Tower.

The mirror get shot off, and shatters into a hundred fragments.

Nathan sees Haley and Karen crying—tries to pull free from the rope. It dawns on him...

"We're out in the open... but he's not shooting at us."

Karen and Haley nod in confirmation.

Becker loads a semi-automatic.

"He's on top of the CN Tower, yes?"

Becker nods.

"CN Tower..." Nathan whispers under his breath.

Suddenly, two bullets pierce through the rope that ties Nathan to the chair. Four more pierce through Karen and Haley's rope.

Before Kozlow notices they're free...

"RUN!" Nathan says to Karen as he grabs Haley's hand and runs out the door, as Kozlow shoots at them.

Becker takes his semi-automatic and aims it at the ceiling. He fires a round, causing the ceiling to obstruct the sniper's view and the sprinkler and alarm to go off.

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Nathan, Karen and Haley run down the hallway, as Becker exits the room, shooting.

They run out the lobby, into the streets, toward the CN Tower.

Becker chases them through the streets, shooting his guns, causing cars to crash and people to scream and hide in every direction.

They enter the CN Tower lobby—Nathan jams a chair inside the revolving door.

"Hey! Hold it right there-" A security guards yells.

The glass gets shot out by Becker, causing tourists to run and scream and scatter in every direction. BAM!BAM! BAM!

Nathan, Karen and Haley run to one of the elevators, as security guards get wiped out, one by one, by Becker.

Nathan java away at the elevator buttons, hoping the doors will close before Becker gets to them.

Becker runs towards the elevator, shooting at the back wall. Finally, when the door me close, Becker's hand reaches in between the doors.

Haley takes the emergency phone and hammers at his fingers, until he lets go—the doors close.

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