After dark, the small convoy consisting of an old white Skoda Octavia driven by one of Nasser's cousins, Mahmoud, with his fiancée, Leila, riding shotgun and followed at a distance by the Isuzu pick-up with Nasser and Ollie left the house in Tira. The ISA agents received the signal from the chip implanted in Ollie's passport and knew that the target was on the move. They didn't take notice of the white Octavia that passed right by them, but Mahmoud who was on the lookout for any signs of unusual activity became aware of them and told Leila to call Nasser and warn him. Nasser took evasive action and instead of heading toward Highway 6, the main route to the south and to Jerusalem, he switched off the Isuzu's lights and took a detour through a dirt trail in one of the many orange groves that surrounded the township and headed along a secondary road towards the town of Kfar Saba. The ISA agents saw the change in direction of the beacon but did not manage to get a look at the Isuzu that was now travelling without lights. With great concern the agents saw the signal from the chip fade away as the distance between them grew. They completely lost the trail in the dirt roads that traversed the cultivated fields of Tira and the neighboring Jewish villages. The agents called their control and informed the duty officer that they lost the culprit. The duty officer ordered all police and Border Police patrols in the area to immediately set up road blocks on all the roads leading south from Tira and informed David and "The Fish" who were in the control room of this development. "The Fish" ordered his two agents to return to Tira and question all the people who were in the house pinpointed by the drone. He informed them that police reinforcements were on the way to meet them at the house.
The agents, now with the backing of uniformed police officers, entered the house without knocking on the door and gathered all the residents in the large living room. They then took all the men out to the backyard and showed them the black Savana that was parked there under a makeshift shelter and asked them who it belonged to. The men knew that it was stolen property and suspected that it was used in some high-profile criminal activity and soon realized that they could be facing a serious charge, yet they were more afraid of Sheik Khalil and his religious zealots than of the police and refused to cooperate. Two of the ISA agents took the youngest man, who was 17 years old and looked more like a scared boy than a man, and led him to a dark corner in the yard and intimidated him with threats of what would happen to him in prison. They didn't need to use physical violence as the young boy cracked and told them all about Nasser and Ollie and about the Isuzu pick-up truck to which some large object was transferred from the Savana van. The ISA agents immediately forwarded the information to the control room. The police took the owner of the house and the young boy into custody, while cautioning all other men to remain in the house and not call anybody. The men returned to the living room joining the women and children under the supervision of three tough looking Border Police officers.
The people manning the road blocks were told to stop and search all Isuzu pick-up trucks but to allow all other traffic to continue. They were warned that the driver and passenger in the suspect vehicle could be armed and were probably extremely dangerous, so caution must be practiced when approaching the vehicle. Furthermore, they were ordered to shoot only at the tires if the suspect vehicle tried to run through the road block as it probably had a large load of explosives that could be set off by a stray bullet. Reports about Isuzu pick-up trucks started coming in, as this was a very popular vehicle, but none had caused any problems when ordered to stop or objected to being searched, and of course, nothing was found.
Nasser and Ollie did not have the means to monitor the police radio transmissions but Nasser came up with the idea of using the live traffic information system to see where there were traffic hold ups that were probably due to the road blocks. He switched on his cellphone and used the appropriate application and saw that they were just a couple of kilometers from the closest traffic obstruction. He looked for a way to get off the road and spotted a narrow trail in an orchard that lead to a deserted house swerving off the paved road to follow it. He suggested to Ollie that they should lay low for a few hours until things cleared up. He then called his cousin Mahmoud only to learn that he had been stopped at one of the road blocks but as his papers were in order, and with Leila sitting next to him, he was allowed to continue on his way and was now entering Tira. He then excitedly said that there were several police cars near the house of Nasser's cousins and that he was proceeding to Leila's house. Nasser updated Ollie about these developments and Ollie said that the police had probably traced the black Savana to the house. Ollie asked Nasser to move the Isuzu to a spot that couldn't be seen from the road and they parked behind the deserted building. Ollie got out of the cabin, and with Nasser's help removed the tarpaulin that covered the improvised nuclear device, and started inserting the detonators into the slots that were drilled into the blocks of high explosives. This operation took quite a while because there were a few dozen detonators that had to be correctly wired. In addition it was tricky to place the detonators in the bottom part of the device because of the difficult access to those slots on the back of the pick-up truck. It took Ollie about 30 minutes to complete the procedure and all he had to do now was to connect all the electrical leads to the battery and set the timer. Ollie did not want to commit suicide but dreaded failure of the divine mission he had undertaken so he installed a direct triggering mechanism bypassing the timer that would detonate the device instantaneously when pressed. He would set off the device if he thought that he was about to be stopped and vowed that he would do this as a last resort. Ollie told Nasser what he had done and instructed him to press the trigger if he himself were disabled.
Nasser watched the procedure for arming the device identifying it as similar to what he had seen in the movies and realized that they were travelling with a nuclear device. He commented that even if it went off in the middle of nowhere in Israel the physical damage and psychological ramifications would be a great victory for Islam over the Jewish invaders and the Western civilization and thanked Ollie for allowing him to be part of this heroic act.
Ollie's primal instincts set his skin tingling and his hair standing on end so he spent a few minutes analyzing the situation and deduced that the performance of the ISA agents tracking him first to Umm al-Fahm and then to the house of Nasser's cousins in Tira could only be due to a tracking device that was planted in his belongings. He discussed this with Nasser who agreed with him. They removed Ollie's luggage from the Isuzu placing it behind the fence surrounding the deserted house and decided to leave the house immediately realizing that they would be sitting ducks if they stayed there any longer. Without switching on the headlights they returned to the paved road and headed back towards the network of secondary roads in the agricultural area looking for another dirt road that would take them to Jerusalem circumventing the road blocks. Nasser, who knew the area well, suggested that they try to head to the densely populated area on the west side of Route 6 where Arab and Jewish villages coexisted side by side, and then try to switch vehicles again either with the voluntary help of an Arab supporter or by coercion.
Using the cellular phone's navigation software to evade roadblocks, they managed to reach Kafr Kassem without being challenged. In this large Arab village they looked for Palestinian flags painted on the walls or flown on poles and signs of the Islamic ultra-religious movement. They didn't have to search for long before they saw a car repair garage with posters calling for donations to support Al Aqsa mosque. They parked the Isuzu in a dark corner of the poorly lit street and while Ollie remained in the truck to keep watch on the device Nasser went to the large shuttered door of the garage and knocked on it. After a couple of moments a male voice said in Arabic that the garage was closed until tomorrow morning. Nasser said that he had come to make a large donation for the Al Aqsa fund and asked the man to open the door. The garage owner was still suspicious as this ploy had been used by the Israeli police and security agency and it took Nasser a few minutes to convince him that he was indeed a disciple of the famous Sheik Khalil of Umm al-Fahm. Finally a smaller side door was opened by the garage owner who introduced himself as Abdul Aziz and asked Nasser what he really wanted as nobody had ever come late at night seeking to make a donation to the fund. Nasser said that they needed a car to deliver some goods to Jerusalem. Abdul Aziz saw that he winked when he said "goods" and understood that no good would come from these "goods" so he smiled and said that he had just completed the repair of a minivan that would probably be suitable for transporting the "goods" and showed Nasser a brand new Honda Odyssey that had been involved in a minor fender-bender accident. He said that the car was brought in by a wealthy Israeli resident from nearby Oranit and that the owner would not come back until the following week as he had gone on vacation to Paris. Nasser asked Abdul Aziz to open the garage door as he had to transfer the "goods" from the Isuzu truck to the Odyssey and would need a derrick or winch to do that. Looking around the fully equipped garage Nasser saw that it was ideal for their purposes so he went back out and drove the Isuzu into the garage. Abdul Aziz was surprised to see the blond man but when Ollie welcomed him in Arabic and praised Allah he became enthusiastic that such a typical Scandinavian man had adopted the true faith. The back seats of the Odyssey were removed and the device was placed in it and covered once again by the tarpaulin. The windows of the minivan were of the dark type so no one could see into the car from the sides or back. Abdul Aziz offered them coffee and pastries that they accepted with great joy as they were famished and tired. He saw that they looked haggard and invited them to stay at his house for the night saying that they would attract less attention in the heavy daytime traffic than late at night when very few vehicles would be on the road. Nasser exchanged a look with Ollie and agreed but asked Abdul Aziz to cover the Isuzu until it could be returned to Nasser's family in Tira.