A short action-oriented chapter that starts off with Smith and Collin in an airplane flying toward the compound they discovered in Montana. Smith, oddly, has been put under hypnotic suggestion by Raymond who apparently specializes in this field along with hypnotic regression and, as we will see later, helicopter piloting, so that he will think the plane is in danger when it isn't and will emergency parachute out right into the hands of the enemy minions. See, he's been made to forget that the amulet protects him and therefore it no longer protects him.
Collin bails at the same time to skulk about with thermal and night vision googles to follow where Smith is taken. Right before Smith is led into a cave cleverly disguised as a cave Collin speaks a code phrase into a radio Smith has on him to snap him out of it and remember that the amulet protects him. Then Raymond flies the helicopter in and Collin starts shooting and honestly I'm not sure what their plan even was because at this point the whole enemy compound comes pouring out firing at them.
Smith and Collin make a break for the helicopter and while Smith makes it a bullet "creases" Collin's ankle and he goes down. Raymond takes off but Collin manages to grab onto the edge. Unfortunately he lets go about thirty feet up and someone shoots something vital on the helicopter and it explodes.
So Collin falls into a "thicket" and wakes up the next day to find his friends dead and the crash site and battle ground partially hidden and cleaned up. He sees the C-47 taking off and realizes the demon is escaping again. He knows Mr. G will hunt him down and he will never be safe as long as the demon exists. He limps off down the road reflecting on his losses.
Seriously though. What was their plan? What the hell was that? They were so well kitted out. They had thermal and night vision goggles, automatic rifles, walkie talkies, a small plane, a helicopter... What did they intend to do? I just...I don't get it.
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