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A thunderous roar ran through the mall as a bomb went off. Bodies flew everywhere.

Two hours later police were organized around the scene. “Well people, what do we have?” asked the police chief.

“Well, a terrorist bombed the mall two hours before. Fourteen people dead, eight injured,” An officer replied and then he handed up a piece of paper. “The terrorists left this.”

“What is it?”

The camera zoomed in on the officers face and after a second he said, in a low dramatic voice: “A… NOTE !”

The police chief opened up the letter and read it. It said:

We have bombed the mall as you can see. But we don’t wish to stop now. We will bomb another public building in 24 hours and every 24 hours after that. Just try to stop us. Your time starts at 5:00pm.

“My god! That gives us 25 hours. To catch these terrorists!” exclaimed the police chief as the camera panned out from the note. Then the camera zoomed in and the chief said: “Call Jack. He’s done this sort of thing before.”

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