later that night, the guerrillas start a shootout and bomb threat at a mall where people are doing their christmas shopping. during the attack, hunter, having shaken down an informant, comes into the mall and takes down the guerrillas one by one. national guard troops are called up, martial law is declared, and armed civilians organize to protect their communities from further guerilla attacks. hunter continues pursuing the terrorists, stopping their plans to bomb a church, killing rostov's right-hand man nikko (alexander zale) right before the latter can initiate a public massacre, and saving a school bus full of children from a bomb. but after arriving at a carnival bombed by the terrorists, hunter realizes that they are spread out too far for him to effectively stem the tide of their attacks, and therefore devises an alternative plan.