Perhaps Top Cat should not have been so quick to dismiss Lester's hunch, because the group was indeed being watched. Ragus had slept through the previous night’s escape attempt and the ensuing fight, and he was up early. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to collect some intelligence on the kidnappers. They were camped on the playground of an old school. While the grounds were relatively flat and open, they were surrounded by a chain-link fence approximately four feet tall.

