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Series 5 Episode 8
"On the Run"
Guest Starring: Lloyd Daniels
“How I’ve missed this place”, Connor Temple stated as he walked into the old ARC’s Main Operations Room. The place was deserted, and locked up outside. Danny drove straight through the gate to get inside. The facial recognition system that allows interest was still active, and that’s how the team got inside. They were on the run from the Home Office who had taken Lester and Lloyd already.
James Lester and Captain Mitchell were sitting outside the Minister’s office, waiting to be called in. Mitchell was wearing more formal attire for the Minister, whilst Lester was in one of his many many suits. Even he lost track of how many he had.
“James, Captain, come in”, a voice from next to them said. The Minister had opened the door and allowed them in. Lester got up and lead the way, with Mitchell going in last and closing the door behind them.
”Please, take a seat”, the Minister offered. He had a darker tone to his voice, compared to when Lester and Claudia met with him before.
“So James, I hear your team are rebelling”, the Minister started the meeting.
“It appears so”, Lester replied.
”Why aren’t you in control of them?”
“I was fired by the Home Secretary. I had no control, I wasn’t in charge. I was just helping them out”, Lester confessed.
“They are not meant to be anywhere near the anomalies, James, you know that”, the Minister’s voice raised in volume, before lowering down again, “I strongly suggest you tell me everything, James, if you even stand a chance of gaining back the ARC”. Lester looked to Mitchell, and sighed.
Cutter and Danny had set their team to work. Sarah and Harry were outside, disabling all CCTV cameras. Jess was tracking the soldiers from her laptop, and Claudia and Jenny were supervising everyone. Abby, Connor and Mia collected everyone’s mobile phones, and were told to dispose of them somewhere. The two leaders were offering support where they could, but were mainly discussing plans together. It was a difficult situation, and no-one really knew what to do.
Lester explained to the Minister about what the team had done. The Minister saw it from Lester’s point of view, and partly, came round to his way of thinking. He agreed to see Lloyd’s charges dropped, and Lester reinstated in some way or another. Sadly, he couldn’t guarantee anything about the team, as they had operated illegally.
Lloyd Daniels was sitting in a cell at the local prison. He was on the cold, stony floor.
“Cheer up mate”, his cellmate told him. He was young aswell, early 20’s. He had brown, shaggy hair, and didn’t look like the type to be banged up. He was in their for shoplifting, and was nearing the end of his sentence. Lloyd got on with him, but would still rather be out of the place. He couldn’t stand being locked up around loads of dangerous men. He was terrified around them, and found the cell much safer than the rest of the prison. Lloyd stood up and stretched his arms.
“Sorry. I’m just missing someone”, Lloyd told his cellmate, whose name was Tom.
“Your mum? Me too”
“No, not her. Well, I am missing her, but she lives in Wales, so I don’t see her anyway. No, it’s a girl”, Lloyd confessed.
”Your girlfriend?”
”Well, she’s not my girlfriend. I worked with her, and saved her life. Then I got arrested. I felt something with her, like I never have with any other girl”
Just at that moment, a police officer entered the room.
”Lloyd Daniels?”, he verified. Lloyd nodded.
“You’re free to go. The charges have been dropped. The Minister has informed us to let you know it was because of Sir James Lester”, the officer told him. Lloyd smiled.
”Now, pack up your stuff quickly”, the officer continued.
“Lloyd, before you go, I always wondered, what actually was your job? Where this girl was?”, Tom asked Lloyd.
“I’m sorry, I can’t tell you. It’s classified”, Lloyd told him. He then looked to the officer, “Could we have some time to say goodbye?”. The officer nodded and left the cell for a minute.
“We investigate rips in time called anomalies. Sometimes, creatures come through. Prehistoric creatures, or maybe ones from the future”, Lloyd revealed.
“No way!”, Tom couldn’t, and didn’t, believe his ears. Then he saw Lloyd’s face - totally serious.
“Oh my god, you’re telling the truth?!”
”Completely. Now, you must promise never to tell a soul, yes?”, Lloyd made Tom agree.
”See you around”, Lloyd said goodbye to Tom, then was escorted out by the officer.
Waiting at the desk was a very impatient James Lester, with Captain Mitchell. Mitchell had taken off his tie and blazor, untucked his shirt and undid his top button. He hated wearing formal clothes.
“Great to see you guys again”, Lloyd said as he saw them. He needed to collect his valuables, such as his mobile phone, from the desk. They were given to him in a plastic clear bag. They then strolled outside. Once inside Lester’s Jag, he revealed all to Lloyd.
”We need your help to find the team. As you know, we lost the ARC. They are now being hunted down by the Home Office. The Minister has told us that if we can track them down and bring them to him, he will personally appeal for us to gain the ARC back”, Lester explained.
“Have you tried calling them?”, Lloyd asked.
“Yes. I got no reply from any of them”
“Let me try”, Lloyd called Jess’s number first. No answer. Then Connor’s. Again, it just rang and rang and rang, but no-one answered. He tried all of the team, one by one, and it was the same.
“No answer”, Lloyd announced.
Sarah and Harry were finishing up disabling the CCTV cameras. It was a long task. They were in a booth just next to the broken gates. Harry decided to step outside and check for the soldiers. A car was coming into view. Harry squinted due to the bright sun in the horizon.
“We’ve got soldiers incoming, I repeat, we’ve got soldiers incoming!”, Jess alerted the team through their earpieces. It took a few moments for Harry to digest what Jess had said, and then she scrambled inside the booth to check Sarah heard. She had heard, and they both ran inside quickly. But as they were walking inside, the car stopped at the smashed down gates, and three soldiers got out. They ran over to the girls, who sprinted the rest of the way to the door. Sarah activated the facial recognition system, but not quick enough. The soldiers had grabbed Sarah and Harry, and escorted them off. The duo were struggling like hell, but it was nothing compared to the strength of the soldiers.
“You, take these away. And you, come inside with me”, one soldier ordered the other two about. Sarah and Harry were carted off.
Inside the ARC, the team were priming their weapons. Jess, Jenny and Claudia round the corner of the door to the lab just next door to the Main Operations Room. When the soldiers came in, they would run out and get Sarah and Harry to help. Little did they know that they had been carted off.
Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep!
The handheld Detectors rang off, just a moment before Jess’s laptop went off with the usual DING DING sound.
“Now?”, Connor sighed.
Lester’s handheld detector beeped aswell.
“I’ve got it! Type in their phone numbers into that detector, it will track them!”, Lloyd had an idea.
“Excellent!”, Mitchell praised him, just as they drove past the old ARC, “Wait, people are here. Drop me off and you guys go and find where they may well be, or at least where their phones are. Then we have two places covered”. Mitchell got out of the car, and jogged into the ARC, with his pistol ready.
Two soldiers walked past the room Jess, Claudia and Jenny were in. They weren’t noticed. They crouched down and watched from the large window that looked into the Main Operations Room. They then ran outside.
The soldiers went through the doors to the Main Operations Room, and were greeted by Cutter, Danny, Connor, Abby and Mia holding guns at them.
“What are you doing here?”, one soldier asked.
”We could ask you the same”, Mia replied.
“Put the guns down, you’re under arrest”, the other soldier ordered.
“You think it’s going to be that easy?”, Danny added.
Lester and Lloyd got out of the Jag, and wandered down an alley.
”They’re obviously not here”, Lloyd said.
”Well, I think I can see that, do you think I’m blind?”, Lester moaned.
Lloyd went to the end, and saw 10 mobile phones on the floor. Then they looked around the corner. There was the anomaly. A noise came travelled through. Lloyd recognised the sound immediately. It was that of a Future Predator…
Jess, Claudia and Jenny ran outside, and were met by Mitchell.
“Get away!”, Jess shouted.
“It’s OK, I’m here looking for you. Lester and Lloyd are out tracking your phones. I’ll just call them and let them know you’re here”, Mitchell explained.
“Two soldiers are in there. And we can’t find Sarah and Harry”, Claudia told Mitchell.
”Right, I’m going in”, Mitchell decided.
”Like the shirt”, Jenny joked.
“Not funny”, Mitchell wasn’t too impressed with Jenny’s comment.
They walked inside.
“Put the guns down, that is an order”, the first soldier shouted.
“How about no?”, Mia was being very defiant. The soldiers looked at each other and pulled out their guns.
“Put the guns on the floor and your hands in the air”, the second soldier commanded.
BANG! BANG! Mia felt like she had been shot, even though she hadn’t. She opened her eyes to see the soldiers lying on the floor with tranquilliser darts next to them. And behind them - Captain Mitchell. Mia ran up to him and hugged him.
”We got an anomaly signal, it’s still going strong. Let’s get to it quick”, Abby thought.
“Lester and Lloyd are looking for you. The Minister said if we find you, we may get the ARC back”, Mitchell told them. They all smiled.
“Where are Lester and Lloyd then?”, Cutter asked.
“They traced your phones”, Mitchell informed them.
”Ah, we’ll lead the way. It’s not far from here”, Connor suggested.
They ran as quick as they could to Lester and Lloyd. Round corners, up roads, until they got to the alleyway. Lloyd was sitting on the floor, his legs out straight, and Lester lying injured. Jess ran straight up to see Lloyd. He smiled when he saw her. Mitchell and Danny helped escort Lester to the car. Jess helped Lloyd up, their hands stayed together once he got up.
”Sorry”, Jess smiled. She went all giggly and shy.
“It’s OK”, Lloyd smiled back. But before anything else could happen, a Future Predator appeared behind them. Lloyd and Jess backed off, but found themselves against the wall. They could try to outrun it, but they both knew they wouldn’t be fast enough. Cutter and the team watched from the alley. Cutter put his finger up to the team, signalling to them to wait there and be silent, but they knew that already. Jess and Lloyd were terrified…
James Lester and Captain Mitchell were sitting outside the Minister’s office, waiting to be called in. Mitchell was wearing more formal attire for the Minister, whilst Lester was in one of his many many suits. Even he lost track of how many he had.
“James, Captain, come in”, a voice from next to them said. The Minister had opened the door and allowed them in. Lester got up and lead the way, with Mitchell going in last and closing the door behind them.
”Please, take a seat”, the Minister offered. He had a darker tone to his voice, compared to when Lester and Claudia met with him before.
“So James, I hear your team are rebelling”, the Minister started the meeting.
“It appears so”, Lester replied.
”Why aren’t you in control of them?”
“I was fired by the Home Secretary. I had no control, I wasn’t in charge. I was just helping them out”, Lester confessed.
“They are not meant to be anywhere near the anomalies, James, you know that”, the Minister’s voice raised in volume, before lowering down again, “I strongly suggest you tell me everything, James, if you even stand a chance of gaining back the ARC”. Lester looked to Mitchell, and sighed.
Cutter and Danny had set their team to work. Sarah and Harry were outside, disabling all CCTV cameras. Jess was tracking the soldiers from her laptop, and Claudia and Jenny were supervising everyone. Abby, Connor and Mia collected everyone’s mobile phones, and were told to dispose of them somewhere. The two leaders were offering support where they could, but were mainly discussing plans together. It was a difficult situation, and no-one really knew what to do.
Lester explained to the Minister about what the team had done. The Minister saw it from Lester’s point of view, and partly, came round to his way of thinking. He agreed to see Lloyd’s charges dropped, and Lester reinstated in some way or another. Sadly, he couldn’t guarantee anything about the team, as they had operated illegally.
Lloyd Daniels was sitting in a cell at the local prison. He was on the cold, stony floor.
“Cheer up mate”, his cellmate told him. He was young aswell, early 20’s. He had brown, shaggy hair, and didn’t look like the type to be banged up. He was in their for shoplifting, and was nearing the end of his sentence. Lloyd got on with him, but would still rather be out of the place. He couldn’t stand being locked up around loads of dangerous men. He was terrified around them, and found the cell much safer than the rest of the prison. Lloyd stood up and stretched his arms.
“Sorry. I’m just missing someone”, Lloyd told his cellmate, whose name was Tom.
“Your mum? Me too”
“No, not her. Well, I am missing her, but she lives in Wales, so I don’t see her anyway. No, it’s a girl”, Lloyd confessed.
”Your girlfriend?”
”Well, she’s not my girlfriend. I worked with her, and saved her life. Then I got arrested. I felt something with her, like I never have with any other girl”
Just at that moment, a police officer entered the room.
”Lloyd Daniels?”, he verified. Lloyd nodded.
“You’re free to go. The charges have been dropped. The Minister has informed us to let you know it was because of Sir James Lester”, the officer told him. Lloyd smiled.
”Now, pack up your stuff quickly”, the officer continued.
“Lloyd, before you go, I always wondered, what actually was your job? Where this girl was?”, Tom asked Lloyd.
“I’m sorry, I can’t tell you. It’s classified”, Lloyd told him. He then looked to the officer, “Could we have some time to say goodbye?”. The officer nodded and left the cell for a minute.
“We investigate rips in time called anomalies. Sometimes, creatures come through. Prehistoric creatures, or maybe ones from the future”, Lloyd revealed.
“No way!”, Tom couldn’t, and didn’t, believe his ears. Then he saw Lloyd’s face - totally serious.
“Oh my god, you’re telling the truth?!”
”Completely. Now, you must promise never to tell a soul, yes?”, Lloyd made Tom agree.
”See you around”, Lloyd said goodbye to Tom, then was escorted out by the officer.
Waiting at the desk was a very impatient James Lester, with Captain Mitchell. Mitchell had taken off his tie and blazor, untucked his shirt and undid his top button. He hated wearing formal clothes.
“Great to see you guys again”, Lloyd said as he saw them. He needed to collect his valuables, such as his mobile phone, from the desk. They were given to him in a plastic clear bag. They then strolled outside. Once inside Lester’s Jag, he revealed all to Lloyd.
”We need your help to find the team. As you know, we lost the ARC. They are now being hunted down by the Home Office. The Minister has told us that if we can track them down and bring them to him, he will personally appeal for us to gain the ARC back”, Lester explained.
“Have you tried calling them?”, Lloyd asked.
“Yes. I got no reply from any of them”
“Let me try”, Lloyd called Jess’s number first. No answer. Then Connor’s. Again, it just rang and rang and rang, but no-one answered. He tried all of the team, one by one, and it was the same.
“No answer”, Lloyd announced.
Sarah and Harry were finishing up disabling the CCTV cameras. It was a long task. They were in a booth just next to the broken gates. Harry decided to step outside and check for the soldiers. A car was coming into view. Harry squinted due to the bright sun in the horizon.
“We’ve got soldiers incoming, I repeat, we’ve got soldiers incoming!”, Jess alerted the team through their earpieces. It took a few moments for Harry to digest what Jess had said, and then she scrambled inside the booth to check Sarah heard. She had heard, and they both ran inside quickly. But as they were walking inside, the car stopped at the smashed down gates, and three soldiers got out. They ran over to the girls, who sprinted the rest of the way to the door. Sarah activated the facial recognition system, but not quick enough. The soldiers had grabbed Sarah and Harry, and escorted them off. The duo were struggling like hell, but it was nothing compared to the strength of the soldiers.
“You, take these away. And you, come inside with me”, one soldier ordered the other two about. Sarah and Harry were carted off.
Inside the ARC, the team were priming their weapons. Jess, Jenny and Claudia round the corner of the door to the lab just next door to the Main Operations Room. When the soldiers came in, they would run out and get Sarah and Harry to help. Little did they know that they had been carted off.
Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep!
The handheld Detectors rang off, just a moment before Jess’s laptop went off with the usual DING DING sound.
“Now?”, Connor sighed.
Lester’s handheld detector beeped aswell.
“I’ve got it! Type in their phone numbers into that detector, it will track them!”, Lloyd had an idea.
“Excellent!”, Mitchell praised him, just as they drove past the old ARC, “Wait, people are here. Drop me off and you guys go and find where they may well be, or at least where their phones are. Then we have two places covered”. Mitchell got out of the car, and jogged into the ARC, with his pistol ready.
Two soldiers walked past the room Jess, Claudia and Jenny were in. They weren’t noticed. They crouched down and watched from the large window that looked into the Main Operations Room. They then ran outside.
The soldiers went through the doors to the Main Operations Room, and were greeted by Cutter, Danny, Connor, Abby and Mia holding guns at them.
“What are you doing here?”, one soldier asked.
”We could ask you the same”, Mia replied.
“Put the guns down, you’re under arrest”, the other soldier ordered.
“You think it’s going to be that easy?”, Danny added.
Lester and Lloyd got out of the Jag, and wandered down an alley.
”They’re obviously not here”, Lloyd said.
”Well, I think I can see that, do you think I’m blind?”, Lester moaned.
Lloyd went to the end, and saw 10 mobile phones on the floor. Then they looked around the corner. There was the anomaly. A noise came travelled through. Lloyd recognised the sound immediately. It was that of a Future Predator…
Jess, Claudia and Jenny ran outside, and were met by Mitchell.
“Get away!”, Jess shouted.
“It’s OK, I’m here looking for you. Lester and Lloyd are out tracking your phones. I’ll just call them and let them know you’re here”, Mitchell explained.
“Two soldiers are in there. And we can’t find Sarah and Harry”, Claudia told Mitchell.
”Right, I’m going in”, Mitchell decided.
”Like the shirt”, Jenny joked.
“Not funny”, Mitchell wasn’t too impressed with Jenny’s comment.
They walked inside.
“Put the guns down, that is an order”, the first soldier shouted.
“How about no?”, Mia was being very defiant. The soldiers looked at each other and pulled out their guns.
“Put the guns on the floor and your hands in the air”, the second soldier commanded.
BANG! BANG! Mia felt like she had been shot, even though she hadn’t. She opened her eyes to see the soldiers lying on the floor with tranquilliser darts next to them. And behind them - Captain Mitchell. Mia ran up to him and hugged him.
”We got an anomaly signal, it’s still going strong. Let’s get to it quick”, Abby thought.
“Lester and Lloyd are looking for you. The Minister said if we find you, we may get the ARC back”, Mitchell told them. They all smiled.
“Where are Lester and Lloyd then?”, Cutter asked.
“They traced your phones”, Mitchell informed them.
”Ah, we’ll lead the way. It’s not far from here”, Connor suggested.
They ran as quick as they could to Lester and Lloyd. Round corners, up roads, until they got to the alleyway. Lloyd was sitting on the floor, his legs out straight, and Lester lying injured. Jess ran straight up to see Lloyd. He smiled when he saw her. Mitchell and Danny helped escort Lester to the car. Jess helped Lloyd up, their hands stayed together once he got up.
”Sorry”, Jess smiled. She went all giggly and shy.
“It’s OK”, Lloyd smiled back. But before anything else could happen, a Future Predator appeared behind them. Lloyd and Jess backed off, but found themselves against the wall. They could try to outrun it, but they both knew they wouldn’t be fast enough. Cutter and the team watched from the alley. Cutter put his finger up to the team, signalling to them to wait there and be silent, but they knew that already. Jess and Lloyd were terrified…
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