Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 36

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Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 36

5:25am

Cole stepped out of the car immediately he saw the car park right at their front. He already recognized the car to be a property of the transport service he had recommended to Tarasha.


She already stepped out of the car by the time he got there, she was taking out her bags from the backseat.


‘Cole, where is the building?’ she asked first before he could say anything to her.
‘Over there,’ he pointed far across the road.
‘Which one?’ she asked. There were several small buildings and houses where few was pointing at.


‘It’s the bungalow painted white,’ Cole specified and handed over his viewing device to her.

She collected the device and used it to locate the exact building he was talking about. ‘I can see one of our cars there,’ she said as she returned it to him.

‘Yes, that’s the one Henry drove.’
‘Okay, keep these bags.’

She handed to him the briefcase she got from Chief Gab and a backpack. ‘I’m going in there, watch and listen for instructions.’

‘Boss,’ Cole opened his eyes and mouth in shock, wondering if she was really going there as she said. He scrutinized her body and noticed she was well dressed. He could see the signs of the several guns, knives and pins hidden in her cloth and he knew she also wore a Kevlar underneath but he was still scared of her going to meet Rex.

The car which dropped Tarasha drove away after the driver waved at them.

‘I want you to take these things to Base B, I’ll meet you there with Henry hopefully.’ Tarasha said. ‘Turn off every traceable device with you. I called the police for reinforcement already.’


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‘Hello Agent, how come you’re sleeping?’ Dave said into the phone as he drew the seatbelt.
‘Sorry Dave, but you should have dropped a voice message instead of calling repeatedly.’ Dakolo replied from the other end with a sleepy voice.

‘Hehe!’ Dave smiled and shook his head. He considered the police lazy and believed it was why they always had unsolved cases. He was still awake going about a case Inspector Dakolo had giving him lead on but the man himself was asleep and even unwilling to rise at the sound of his phone ringing.

‘I slept late last night Dave, I slept by two a.m.’
‘Hehe,’ Dave laughed the more. He felt the urge to tell the man that he hadn’t slept for more than two hours for two days but he resisted it, knowing that it would make the man suspicious about him. ‘Sir, I got the evidence from one of their workers and I have the news on several news blogs already.’

‘What news?’
‘News about the kidnap of Henry E.G’s mother.’

‘What? But we’ve not gotten anything to prove yet,’ the man’s voice was getting clearer.

‘I have proof,’ Dave replied confidently.
‘Where did you get evidence from?’ Dakolo asked even though Dave had already mentioned where he got it from.

‘From one of the workers at the motor service. I had to pay him heavily to take pictures of the registers and send the photos to me.’

‘So, so what are the contents of your news?’
‘I just reported all I know about the issue and posted parts of the pictures necessary.’

‘You posted the pictures too?’
‘Yes, it’s pulling much traffic and would be over a million hits by dawn.’

‘What? You might have done the wrong thing. You should have reached me first, I thought we started this together.’

‘Yes, we did start it together but you went to sleep while I continued.’

‘But… But it could disturb the ongoing police investigations.’


‘No, it would only disturb their lies.’
‘Well, I should get to see you before the day runs out. I would also get up to check the news now.’

‘Okay, Inspector.’
Dave ignited the car engine and sped down the road. He had to get back to Kurudu fast. He had not gotten the pictures from any of the transport service workers like he told Dakolo, he had left monitoring Victor to get into the transport service facility at midnight where he had gotten their documents and register where Mrs George’s name had been filled. It formed part of the evidence he presented in the viral news article he published.

Minutes ago when he had checked the location of Victor’s phone, it was still the same spot at Kurudu where he left Victor and the girl in their car. He would have loved to catch some sleep but he was curious to find out what or who they were waiting for at that place. He thought it better to sleep off after getting there. At least, it would be said that he made an effort, instead of dozing off at home.

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It was ten minutes to the time given for his mother to be executed. Henry had shouted out loud several times to get their attention and to also remind them that he was asked to wait but it seemed that his hosts had left him alone in the place. After thirty minutes of waiting, the lights in the place had gone dim and that confirmed to him that he had been abandoned again.

Henry checked his time again, it was nine minutes left. He trembled as he looked around again for signs of anyone watching him.

‘Rex, I’m ready to comply. Where are you?’ be shouted out loud again but all he got were his words echoing back to him.

Suddenly he heard the sound of the door opening behind him, he turned and faced the door in readiness for whoever was coming. The door opened widely but no one was seen at the entrance. He stared for some more seconds before he began to approach the door slowly. He was only few steps away when Tarasha stepped in, holding two revolvers in her hands. He stopped in shock and stared at her like she was a ghost.

She proceeded forward and walked past him to the wall at the other end of the room without saying anything to him. The door she entered through did not close automatically like it was supposed to, it had been destroyed from behind. She walked about the wall from edge to edge for some seconds, then she turned and walked back, she stopped at the spot Henry dropped all the weapons and metals he had with him the last night.

‘Who has all these?’ she asked.
Henry turned to her. ‘I brought them.’
She looked around again for some seconds. ‘Who was here with you?’
‘I only saw one person, the other was talking to me from the screen.’

She returned one of the guns into her pocket and walked closer
to Henry, she stopped a metre before him. ‘There’s no one else in this building with you anymore, I checked around before entering.’

‘I saw a guy, he came in to talk to me and left through this door.’ he replied, pointing with his head to the door behind.

‘Let’s leave this place,’ Tarasha said and tried to pull his hand along with her. She was sure Henry’s threateners had vacated the place.


‘Leave?’ Henry resisted. ‘My mother is still with them.’

‘Nobody is here Henry, they evacuated this building already.’

‘He was talking to me on the screen, they had screens implanted in the walls.’ Henry explained.

‘I’ve heard you and I understand, but the person isn’t here, I don’t know if your mum was here, but nobody except me is here anymore.’ she said and pulled him by the hand again.
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