Tom's hand tightened on the gun handle as he cautiously opened the
stairwell doorway and looked out onto the seventeenth floor.
No one was in sight as Tom stepped out onto the tan linolum floor.
Twenty five feet later Tom came to the room where they were holding
Sloan.
No guards.....
No alarms.....
Too easy.

Knowing he had no choice Tom turned the handle and stepped into the
small room.
The sight that greeted him made his heart plummet.

Ed did a double take at his boss,"Your source is sure about this?"
Attwood nodded,"Yes."
Tate yanked his cellular phone out of the glove compartment,"We have to
warn Tom."
Attwood reached over and took the phone away,"No."
Ed stared at him in disbelief,"How can we possibly not warn him?! Lewis
alone makes Tom go bonkers.....Sloan doesn't stand a chance if Lewis's
clone reprograms him."

"Trying to warn him would be signing Sloan's death warrent."Walter
replied grimly,"Tom has fought the programming before and been
successful. We just have to have faith that he can do it again."
"So we do nothing?"Ed asked increadously.
Attwood shook his head,"No, we'll help Sloan another way.....by solving
the mystery of the Pillar."

Detective Katherine Krieg found Peter in the squad's break room fighting
with a bottle of asprin.
Krieg took the bottle from him as she handed Peter a piece of computer
printout,"Head still hurt?"
Hurst glared at her slightly for the obvious question,"No, its down to
the level of a bad hangover."He replied sarcasticly as he jestured to
the printout,"What's this?"
"Read it and find out."Katherine replied as she opened the asprin bottle
and set it on the table in front of him.

Peter's green eyes widened as he read the information,"1.6 DNA
differencial....."
Katherine nodded,"We haven't been able to ID our John Doe yet but at
leat we know he's not one of us."