32. Turning Back

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Zermatt, 18.01

"Why are you doing this? He trusted you!" Morgan is tied to her staircase while looking at the man behind all of this. "I didn't mean to hurt him, or you. Especially you. But I had to do this."
"Who are you Oliver?"
"It doesn't matter. I had to put down the Cabal."
"So it's a lie. The Crimson Prime had your family, that's a lie? You are Crimson Prime."
"The Cabal did! They killed my family!" He's screaming to her face. "They...killed Linda and Carmine and called it collateral damage. My entire world."
"You made my father believed that I'm dead!"
"It was necessary. I just don't have the guts to kill you. I thought he's gonna release the Fulcrum. But then they framed him before he could do anything."
"But now you have the guts to kill me and my baby?"
"Who said about killing? The Motherboard? I got someone who can extract it from your brain. If I need to kill you, I would've done it five minutes ago."
"No you can't."
"Trust me, we figured it out. That's why I said, I'm not gonna kill you. I'm just gonna...."

"Alice? Alice!" They hear Patrick's voice and then there's a struggle outside. It sounds like someone got beaten up. "Alice! Are you there?" When he says that, he knows Patrick already beat his men. "The Crimson Prime it's Oli...." and then Oliver got distracted and try to shut her up but she kicks his stomach and while he's down on the floor, she managed to get the ties loose and punch him in the face. She use the same cord to tie his arms and sit him up at the staircase.

"Patrick! Get out! Find some help!"
"No! What about you?"
"I'm handling it. Go! There will be more!"

Patrick goes and take his car to try get his signal back. "Mr. Cooper. This is Patrick. Where are you?"
"I'm on my way. As well as Reddington and Scorpion."
"Tell them to be fast. I need backup. She said she can handle it for now, but she thinks there will be more. And she's trying to say something about The Crimson Prime and a name, but she didn't finished.'
"I'll get to them."

18.30

Reddington is still trying to locate the house when he suddenly meet Walter and his team. "O'Brien."
"Raymond. I'm still gonna beg you to..."
"Don't. It's not gonna work, you know that. You're here to help, not to try to change my mind." He then looks at the rest of the team. Sylvester is the one who open his voice. "The house should be up front. Not far from here. Down the hill."
"Thank you Sylvester. Now, I need all of you to find a safe place, it might become a gun range. I don't want any of you to get hurt."
"I'll come with you. I can be any help." Cabe get his gun and Reddington nods.

They walk slowly and spot Patrick inside the house, pointing a gun to someone while Morgan pointing to another direction. Behind them, they can see a man but they can't see his face. "They're surrounded." Reddington says. Cabe then take a look around and spot 2 sniper and some men with a gun behind cars just outside the house. He then tell Reddington about it. "2 sniper. 9 o'clock and 2. I'm gonna take them down. You guys better take care of those men down the hill."
"Alright. Thank you...Agent Gallo." He smiles, "I'm not an agent anymore, but I'll take it."

They split with Cabe shoot the first sniper and managed to shoot the second. Meanwhile Reddington, Dembe, and Baz got into shooting spree down the hill. It got worse quickly and Reddington got shot in the arms. Morgan and Patrick quickly take down the men inside the house and decided to help outside. "Dad behind you!" Reddington gets down as Morgan shot the guy behind him. Cabe get down when the shootings over, along with Scorpion. "You guys okay?" Toby goes directly to check on Red and Morgan.

But then there's a shot coming from inside the house and hit her left arm. Reddington get her out of the range and shot the man on the window. But before he's down, he shot 2 more bullets in which hit both Cabe and Patrick.

"Cabe! Oh God!" Walter just about to get to him but then Toby cut him off. "Walt, I know you're scared for Cabe, but I got this. I got Sly and Happy. You need to help Morgan." He assured Walter to go off to Patrick which he did.

When he's in front of Patrick, he can see Morgan's freezing and unaware of her surrounding. She keeps touching Patrick's cheeks without actually doing anything. "Morgan! Hey! You have to listen to me..." From her point of view, she can barely see Walter in front of him, let alone hear him. "Morgan! We need to help him!" He shake her shoulders a couple times before she finally get back to her mind. "Walter? What are you doing here, why am I..."
"Morgan, you need to help me, to help Patrick. Okay? I can calculate, but you're the doctor today. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"What? No, Patrick is..."
"He's been shot!! Come on Morgan you don't wanna do this..."
"Okay....what should I do?"

Hospital, 01.25

"How's Cabe?" Walter makes time to visit Toby on across the room. "He's holding on. Don't worry. How is Patrick?"
"He... he's critical. And she's blaming herself for hours. I can't get her out from the room. We got the bullet but the doctor....well she's herself not so sure about his chance considering all the circumstances."
"You did great Walt. If you didn't bring her back to her sense in time, Patrick might die on that scene."
"Well, if only I'm a doctor. All I can do is trying to fix things. And to be honest this one isn't good."
"Alright, I'm gonna back to check on Cabe, you can.....oh god.." Toby's face turn to pale and Walter got a bad feelings about it.

"No.... please no." They're witnessing Patrick's flat line happening.

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