Tarasha - Season 7 - Episode 21

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Tarasha - Season 7 - Episode 21

Dave was able to dodge the bullet aimed at him as he bent his head quickly and fled back down the stairs but Dakolo was caught unawares and he got hit by the bullet on the shoulder. He staggered back and hit his back against the wall but tried to raise his other hand to shoot at Tarasha but she fired another shot straight to his right hand. The bullet hit his fingers. She turned quickly and fired in Dave’s direction but he was gone. She landed on the floor beside Henry.
‘Please, don’t kill this man.’ Henry pleaded as Tarasha stepped down the stairs still pointing her gun at Dakolo.
She glanced at Henry’s face briefly.
‘Let him go please,’ Henry pleaded more.
She wasn’t willing to listen to Henry, there was no reason why she should let him live; a police officer who was a threat to her mission. However she could see with her side eye, her mother right there, staring at her from the stairs. She didn’t know what the woman was thinking, but the eyes being on her alone weakened her, she did not want to appear like a killer in the woman’s eyes.
She looked towards the stairs to see if Dave was hanging anywhere around. There was no sign of him anymore. She bent and picked up the gun which fell from the Inspector’s hand, after that she searched his body and took out the extra gun and catridge on him.
‘Cole, where’s Dave James?’
‘He’s gone, I think he’s scared.’ Tomi replied instead.


Tarasha gestured for Madam Henrietta and Chief Gab to come down the stairs.
‘Boss, you have to use the elevator now. I can’t locate Rex again. The two men with him have now become four with Nicholas being one of them, they’ve split into groups of two and each group takes the different stairs at each side. I don’t know what his plan could be,’ Cole said to Tarasha.
‘Find where the underground leads to quick, then you can find him too.’ she said to Cole and then turned to Henry. ‘Let’s go, we’d use the elevator to the ground floor, we’d stop by at the third floor to get disguised, I have the kits there.’
Tarasha directed Henry, Madam Henrietta and Chief Gab to go in direction of the elevator while she stopped to take another look at Dakolo who was on the floor still conscious and writhing in pain.
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Rex sat on the swivel comfortably, enjoying the rotational movement, his iPad was on the table and his phone in his hand, he was dialing Inspector James.
‘The car is waiting for you at the exit, hurry up and make sure you go straight to the sea port. Four security men have been arranged to help you,’ Rex said into the phone.
‘Alright Rex,’ James replied.
He got up from the table immediately and walked straight out of the room. He noticed that the activity in the hallway and increased and he knew that it would be the same all over the hotel.


He hung the bag on his left shoulder and took out his phone from his pocket. He dialed James number again as he closed the door.
‘James, give the phone to your father.’ he said, his eyes moving around as he scrutinized everything he saw.
‘Rex,’ Elvis Richards called from the other end.

‘Call the security officer again and tell him to repeat the process of turning off power one more time, only that this time he should turn it back on after sixty five seconds.’ Rex said.
‘Okay,’ the Vice President replied him.
Rex returned his phone into his pocket. He raised his Ipad and unlocked it, he maximized the tracking application. He could see two dots on the map of the building, both close to each other, moving in the same direction and at the same speed.

The power suddenly went off again throwing the people in darkness one more time, and they reacted with shouts and complaints having to use their phone lights.
Rex observed the dots on the tracking map carefully, he zoomed and noticed that the movements had completely stopped. He zoomed out to check what floor it was and where exactly they were. He chuckled as he discovered that they were in the elevator and their most likely destination was the ground floor.

The two dots on the building map represented the tracking chips which he had attached to the bodies of Madam Henrietta and Chief Gabriel. He had calculated everything from the beginning including the possibility of Samantha rescuing the hostages from where they were tied. Now that Chief Elvis Richards was out of the building, he knew Samantha would be aware and would try to pursue after them but if he could get Madam Henrietta and Chief Gab with him, it would distract her from going after the Chief.
He calculated in his mind, how many seconds it was left for the power to come back on. He also calculated how many seconds it will take the elevator to start working after the power comes back on and the calculated the amount of time the elevator will take to get to the down floor from where it was. With that he could predict the time he needed for him to meet Chief Gab and Madam Henrietta at the ground floor when they stepped out of the elevator.
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Tarasha was surprised when the lights suddenly went off and the elevator stopped moving.

‘What’s happening Cole?’ she asked.
‘I don’t know, the power has gone off again.’
Tarasha was silent.