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Series 5 Episode 10
"Business As Usual"
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Guest Starring: Lloyd Daniels
James Lester was sat back in his office in the ARC. He was happy to be back in somewhere that’s safe and away from the harm of the Home Secretary. However, he knew that the battle wasn’t over. The Home Secretary was still out there and she could strike anytime. He and the team had to be on their guard at all times.
DING DING! DING DING! DING DING!
“Anomaly detected”, Jess smiled as she announced the first anomaly they had detected since they returned to the ARC. The loud, blaring sound of the Detector was something she hadn’t heard for ages, and it gave her a bit of a headache, but she was relieved all the same. Abby and Connor ran over to her, grabbed their black boxes so Jess could track them, and ran out to the cars. The rest of the team weren’t far behind.
Little did the team know, the Home Secretary was sat in her office with a laptop in front of her. She had hacked into the ARC’s system and sent a fake signal to get them out of there. She wanted Lester, and she wasn’t going to have the team in her way...
“Where exactly are we going?”, Lloyd asked. He was temporarily staying with the team until they had sorted out their problems with the Home Secretary. They knew as much as Lester that it wasn’t over yet.
“The secondary school”, Danny replied.
“Children are in school at this time of day. We’ll have our work cut out for us”, Jenny mentioned.
“Well done Jenny, but to be honest, we weren’t going there to have a little nap and top up our tans, were we?”, Danny joked.
Cutter parked his car, and Connor pulled up in the other car just behind.
“Right, we’ll need to split up. I’ll go with Jenny, Connor, Abby and Mia to evacuate the building. Danny, you take the others to find the anomaly”, Cutter decided. Danny’s team went to go and get their tranquillisers, whereas Cutter’s team went straight in to the reception desk.
“Good morning”, the receptionist smiled.
“Hi. I’d like to speak to the headteacher, it’s urgent”, Cutter answered.
“May I ask you name, sir?”
“Nick Cutter. I’m from the government”, Cutter wanted to make a good impression, so he smiled when he spoke. After a minute of waiting, the receptionist announced that she would take them to the headteacher’s office.
Danny’s team followed the readings on the Handheld Detectors to an empty classroom. Jess had used the main Detector to open any doors and get security access for them.
Lester sat in his office. The ARC was pretty empty without the team, and he could only see Jess. He was watching her run up to his office. She looked extremely flustered. She knocked, and Lester allowed her in.
“It’s the Detector, I think there’s something wrong. There are no bugs reported, but, but…”, Jess explained at high speed.
“Jess, what’s up with the Detector? What’s it doing?”, Lester asked.
“It’s showing loads of anomalies. All over the world. No news reports or anything are coming through, and I doubt all of these wouldn’t have been picked up by someone”, Jess added.
“But if they’ve only just opened, how could there already be news reports?”, Lester queried.
”I first noticed one this morning, in South Africa. I dismissed it, but just kept checking it. I know we’ve had a few ones abroad in the past, so I thought nothing of it. But there’s still no report on that, or any other ones that have been there a while too”
“Are you saying someone’s sending false signals?”
“Quite possibly. Should I try and track it?”
“No Jess, you should let them send us loads of false signals that will overload the system and crash it - yes of course you should try and track it!”
Jess rolled her eyes before bouncing out. She perched herself in her comfy red chair, and started tapping away at the keyboard. She ran a trace. It would take about 10 minutes to run, so she minimised the window and continued watching the team, just as she got a message from Danny through her earpiece…
Danny and his half of the team were completely confused. They reached the room, but found no anomaly.
“Jess, we’re at the location, but there’s nothing here”, Danny announced.
“That’s not unexpected. I’ve been getting false anomaly reports all day. The Detector has no bugs. It’s only really started since you left here”, Jess explained.
“Something’s going on. We need to get out of here”, Danny decided, but the door had been closed and locked. All windows were also locked and there was no fire exit. They were trapped.
Cutter and his team were sitting with the headteacher of the school. He had to explain the situation without giving away any classified information. He got distracted by Danny on his earpiece.
”Cutter, we’re trapped in a classroom. The door is locked”, Danny spoke.
“Excuse me”, Cutter smiled as he stood up from his desk. Jenny continued speaking with the headteacher.
“Where are you?”, Cutter asked as he stepped outside.
“Not sure, we let the Detectors lead us here. Maybe if you followed that route you could get to us?”, but after that sentence, the phone line cut out.
“Danny? DANNY?”, Cutter was concerned. He went back into the office.
“Sorry, do you mind if we put this on hold? Something really important has cropped up”, Cutter asked.
Jess noticed an alert pop up. Someone from the ARC had sent her a link to the CCTV cameras. She opened it and she saw soldiers from the Home Office outside. She put on the alarm, which sent red lights and loud sounds around the whole ARC. But before she knew it, those soldiers had made their way up the lift and onto her floor level. She knew she had opened the link too late. The soldiers barged into Lester’s office and grabbed him. Jess ran up, but was pushed aside. She took off her shoe and threw it at a soldier.
”Arrest her too”, the main soldier commanded, and she was carted off with Lester. Jess especially was struggling like her life depended on it. For all she knew, her life did depend on it…
Danny woke up. He was unconscious, and he saw Lloyd, Harry and Sarah next to him, still unconscious. He went over to Lloyd and tried tapping his cheek to wake him up, and surprisingly, it worked.
“What happened?”, Lloyd asked.
“I have no idea”, Danny replied. Lloyd sat up, and saw the two girls lying on the floor.
“Where’s Claudia?”
“Oh my god”, Danny muttered as he realised she wasn’t there.
Infact, Claudia had been taken to the same place as Lester and Jess. They were in an underground hideout, and were made to kneel down. They were handcuffed. A shadowed figure appeared before them.
“Good work”, she spoke to the soldiers, and they left.
“Helen?”, said Claudia.
“Yes Claudia. Now you’re out of the way, and half of the team is locked up, I’m one step closer to getting Cutter to me without any interference”
“Why us?”, Jess asked.
”Lester and Claudia are the only two with any connection to the government. Jess, you’re just collateral damage. Don’t worry, you won’t be harmed…yet…”
DING DING! DING DING! DING DING!
“Anomaly detected”, Jess smiled as she announced the first anomaly they had detected since they returned to the ARC. The loud, blaring sound of the Detector was something she hadn’t heard for ages, and it gave her a bit of a headache, but she was relieved all the same. Abby and Connor ran over to her, grabbed their black boxes so Jess could track them, and ran out to the cars. The rest of the team weren’t far behind.
Little did the team know, the Home Secretary was sat in her office with a laptop in front of her. She had hacked into the ARC’s system and sent a fake signal to get them out of there. She wanted Lester, and she wasn’t going to have the team in her way...
“Where exactly are we going?”, Lloyd asked. He was temporarily staying with the team until they had sorted out their problems with the Home Secretary. They knew as much as Lester that it wasn’t over yet.
“The secondary school”, Danny replied.
“Children are in school at this time of day. We’ll have our work cut out for us”, Jenny mentioned.
“Well done Jenny, but to be honest, we weren’t going there to have a little nap and top up our tans, were we?”, Danny joked.
Cutter parked his car, and Connor pulled up in the other car just behind.
“Right, we’ll need to split up. I’ll go with Jenny, Connor, Abby and Mia to evacuate the building. Danny, you take the others to find the anomaly”, Cutter decided. Danny’s team went to go and get their tranquillisers, whereas Cutter’s team went straight in to the reception desk.
“Good morning”, the receptionist smiled.
“Hi. I’d like to speak to the headteacher, it’s urgent”, Cutter answered.
“May I ask you name, sir?”
“Nick Cutter. I’m from the government”, Cutter wanted to make a good impression, so he smiled when he spoke. After a minute of waiting, the receptionist announced that she would take them to the headteacher’s office.
Danny’s team followed the readings on the Handheld Detectors to an empty classroom. Jess had used the main Detector to open any doors and get security access for them.
Lester sat in his office. The ARC was pretty empty without the team, and he could only see Jess. He was watching her run up to his office. She looked extremely flustered. She knocked, and Lester allowed her in.
“It’s the Detector, I think there’s something wrong. There are no bugs reported, but, but…”, Jess explained at high speed.
“Jess, what’s up with the Detector? What’s it doing?”, Lester asked.
“It’s showing loads of anomalies. All over the world. No news reports or anything are coming through, and I doubt all of these wouldn’t have been picked up by someone”, Jess added.
“But if they’ve only just opened, how could there already be news reports?”, Lester queried.
”I first noticed one this morning, in South Africa. I dismissed it, but just kept checking it. I know we’ve had a few ones abroad in the past, so I thought nothing of it. But there’s still no report on that, or any other ones that have been there a while too”
“Are you saying someone’s sending false signals?”
“Quite possibly. Should I try and track it?”
“No Jess, you should let them send us loads of false signals that will overload the system and crash it - yes of course you should try and track it!”
Jess rolled her eyes before bouncing out. She perched herself in her comfy red chair, and started tapping away at the keyboard. She ran a trace. It would take about 10 minutes to run, so she minimised the window and continued watching the team, just as she got a message from Danny through her earpiece…
Danny and his half of the team were completely confused. They reached the room, but found no anomaly.
“Jess, we’re at the location, but there’s nothing here”, Danny announced.
“That’s not unexpected. I’ve been getting false anomaly reports all day. The Detector has no bugs. It’s only really started since you left here”, Jess explained.
“Something’s going on. We need to get out of here”, Danny decided, but the door had been closed and locked. All windows were also locked and there was no fire exit. They were trapped.
Cutter and his team were sitting with the headteacher of the school. He had to explain the situation without giving away any classified information. He got distracted by Danny on his earpiece.
”Cutter, we’re trapped in a classroom. The door is locked”, Danny spoke.
“Excuse me”, Cutter smiled as he stood up from his desk. Jenny continued speaking with the headteacher.
“Where are you?”, Cutter asked as he stepped outside.
“Not sure, we let the Detectors lead us here. Maybe if you followed that route you could get to us?”, but after that sentence, the phone line cut out.
“Danny? DANNY?”, Cutter was concerned. He went back into the office.
“Sorry, do you mind if we put this on hold? Something really important has cropped up”, Cutter asked.
Jess noticed an alert pop up. Someone from the ARC had sent her a link to the CCTV cameras. She opened it and she saw soldiers from the Home Office outside. She put on the alarm, which sent red lights and loud sounds around the whole ARC. But before she knew it, those soldiers had made their way up the lift and onto her floor level. She knew she had opened the link too late. The soldiers barged into Lester’s office and grabbed him. Jess ran up, but was pushed aside. She took off her shoe and threw it at a soldier.
”Arrest her too”, the main soldier commanded, and she was carted off with Lester. Jess especially was struggling like her life depended on it. For all she knew, her life did depend on it…
Danny woke up. He was unconscious, and he saw Lloyd, Harry and Sarah next to him, still unconscious. He went over to Lloyd and tried tapping his cheek to wake him up, and surprisingly, it worked.
“What happened?”, Lloyd asked.
“I have no idea”, Danny replied. Lloyd sat up, and saw the two girls lying on the floor.
“Where’s Claudia?”
“Oh my god”, Danny muttered as he realised she wasn’t there.
Infact, Claudia had been taken to the same place as Lester and Jess. They were in an underground hideout, and were made to kneel down. They were handcuffed. A shadowed figure appeared before them.
“Good work”, she spoke to the soldiers, and they left.
“Helen?”, said Claudia.
“Yes Claudia. Now you’re out of the way, and half of the team is locked up, I’m one step closer to getting Cutter to me without any interference”
“Why us?”, Jess asked.
”Lester and Claudia are the only two with any connection to the government. Jess, you’re just collateral damage. Don’t worry, you won’t be harmed…yet…”
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