Chris listened to Todd, and he knew everything he said was true and he understood it, which was why he hadn't asked any of them to help him, had even encouraged them to say no. Protect and Serve in this case meant protect them from going on crazy suicide missions with him. But the man wanted to know what the fight was like when he escaped, so he'd tell him. "Your right." He said "You want to know what it was like in there? Then I'll tell you."<br/><br/>"Inside the building wasn't so bad, 30, maybe 40 of them and the stairwell was clear when we got inside it." He paused as his memory flashed back "The parking garage was...chaos. There must have been a hundred of them, maybe more I don't know and there was one van left, unattended but surrounded." He looked up at Todd. "We needed a distraction so I told Zeke to give me his gun and I'd lure them away, give him time to get the van, and I did. You want to know how bad it was?." He tapped the P90 that was clipped to his vest.<br/><br/>"This is an FN-P90 personal defence weapon." he reached into his vest and pulled out one of his extra magazines. "Each magazine holds 50 rounds of 5.7x28mm bullets, double-stacked, that's 100 rounds before you need to reload. The P90 can fire them at a rate of 900 rounds a minute. I had one fully loaded clip in the gun and 5 extra magazines in my vest, that's a total of 300 bullets." He placed the magazine back into one of the vest pockets and pulled out his USP .45.<br/><br/>"This .45 is a semi-automatic handgun, each magazine holds 12 rounds, I had 12 spare magazines for it, that's 144 bullets total. And I had Zeke's 9mm, it held 15 rounds and I had 5 extra magazines for that, that's 75 bullets. In total I had 519 bullets on me spread over 3 weapons. I used all of them in about 5 or 6 minutes and despite the fact I killed a lot of them, there were always more. They had me pinned and were about to eat my ass alive, then Zeke showed up in the van, killed a few of them with a shotgun and then we used the van to run over any of them that were in the way. That's how hard it was, which is why I didn't ask any of you to help me." Chris paused and took a breath "But please remember that that was 3 days ago, it's possible they've already gone from there."<br/><br/>"However you asked me how the police station could be overrun with all the firepower we had and the experience. Well need I remind you what else was going on in this city at the time besides the zombies? Almost every cop in this city was spread across it, dealing with undead, trying to protect hospitals and oh yeah dealing with the rioters and looters that were running around the city when they should have been locked inside their homes. The station was overrun because there wasn't enough of us left<em>to</em>defend or barricade it. You asked why we didn't fortify it after Mercy Hospital, do you know where I was after Mercy Hospital? First I was dealing with looters in the street, then I was defending the cities power generators so that everybody had power and a lot of other cops were busy doing the same."<br/><br/>Although Chris had been calm throughout his speech he chose now to glare at the older man, although he kept his voice calm "And don't you<em>dare</em>stand there and tell me what tell me what being in SWAT means, I am well aware of what it means and I do think before I act, before this shit happened and after. I have a sister who I love more than anything else on this planet and I left her with a bunch of people I don't know to come here and find my friend and do you want to know why? I am not a leader, I am a Sniper. Do you know what a Sniper's job is hmm? My job is to sneak into hostile territory alone and scout out an area, getting the lay of the land, seeing how many bad guys there are, where they are, what patrol patterns they use... and of course to kill people. I left my sister there because I<em>know</em>I can get in and out of there, especially since I know the lay of the land, so when I tell you I've thought about this you<em>damn</em>well better believe me."<br/><br/>Taking a breath his face took on a more calmed expression "As for your other questions? It's only one building with 25 floors. The good news is the armoury is on the 3rd floor, so we don't have to search every one and there's only one way to get there which lowers the search time and the risk. As for how I know he's not back at home with his wife? It's the same way I knew he was missing in the first place..." He reached into his pant pocket and pulled out his cell phone "She would have called me."<br/><br/>Chris sighed and ran his hands over his face "Look I'm sorry if I've been coming across as a jerk but if there was someone you we're willing to die for and they were in trouble, wouldn't you try to help them? But I do understand where your coming from, and if it helps you I will go and do what I am trained to do, sneak down there and scout out the building, see what's going on, how many there are and how dangerous it is, then you'll know exactly what you'll be facing if you decide to come with me, how does that sound?"<br/><br/>After Chris' and Todd's discussion ended Caitlin recommended that they all exchanged phone numbers.