Attackers jump out of a van and surround Cammie. She fights them off, but they tie her up and toss her in the van. She recognizes their voices as her professors and realizes this is her Covert Operations final exam. They take her to a warehouse, where Mr. Solomon details the assignment. Cammie has been captured and is one of two packages a retrieval team will be sent to collect, adding that she doesn’t know if she’ll be rescued. Cammie asks if the team is made up of Gallagher Girls. Mr. Solomon says it is, to which Cammie replies “then they'll be here” (257).

Mr. Solomon leaves Cammie with a bookish professor as a guard, who Cammie has tied to the chair in her place quickly. She escapes the building and suddenly hears Liz’s voice over the necklace-communication unit she forgot she was wearing. She meets up with the rest of her class on the roof of a nearby building and they devise a plan to break into where the second package is being kept. Before they can move, Josh arrives. He saw Cammie get kidnapped, followed her, and called the cops. Sirens wail in the distance.