Zoey and crew arrive at a brownstone after their twelve-block walk, dressed in cocktail attire, but freezing in the snow squall. They can’t figure out how to get in.
Margo shook her head, “So, our ‘Cartel hit man’ got himself stuck in an elevator?”
Steve, thinking quickly, suggests, “Zoey, how about we try the Knox Box?”
Margo, replies confused, “what?”
Zoey explained, “That little black box on the wall isn’t a mailbox or utility interface. It’s called a Knox Box. It’s a mini-safe with keys and floor plans for firefighters to get into buildings without having to break down doors.”
Margo, now desperate in the freezing cold, “So can we…”
Zoey hesitates.
Steve, says matter-of-factly, “I saw it…I know you have it.”
Finally, Zoey relents. Explaining to a confused Margo, “He saw my key ring. Yeah…I’ve got a Knox key. Each master key opens some of these safes in certain parts of the city.”
Steve, growing tired of this argument, “That’s not just any master key you’ve got.”
Zoey relents, opens up the Knox box with her key, and scores the building master key and the floor plans. They enter and close the front door behind them.
The elevator is just down the hall to the right. The floor indicator light above the door says “3”.
Zoey quickly commands, “I’m going to find the machine room. Go up to three, see if you talk to Lev and see if he sounds like he’s above or below you and about how far.”
Zoey goes to the basement and finds a door marked ‘Elevator Machine Room’ with a “Danger: No Entry” sign on it. She opens it with the master building key. She looks around, finds a key storage box, opens it and removes the Elevator Shaft Door key.
Margo and Steve are standing in front of the shaft door of the elevator car trying to communicate with Lev who is trapped in the stuck elevator.
Through the door, Lev groans, “Dude, I have to use the toilet so damn bad.”
Zoey returns up the stairs, asking, “How is he?”
“A little unnerved, but fine. Sounds like he’s right on the other side, about our level or slightly above,” Margo replied.
Zoey explained the plan, “Good. This key will open the door. I’ll open and push the shaft door aside, but I have to hold the door to keep it from closing. Then Margo, you open what will look like a latch on the car door. But you both stay back enough; I don’t want you falling down the shaft or something. Steve, you reach in and pull him right out. Okay?”
They both nod.
Zoey says to Lev, “I’m gonna open this up, they’re going to give you a hand and you just jump out okay?”
“Just hurry the fuck up!”
Zoey inserts the drop key into an eye-hole in the top right of the shaft door. It opens and then she shoves the door to the right and leans against it carefully to hold it. There is about four feet of blackness below the car.
Margo points at a lever on the car door. And Zoey nods.
Lev, looking relieved, jumps out. He tosses Margo a small bag.
Lev replied, “Copied everything to the hard drives in the bag. Gotta find a toilet man!”
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