The armed man scrutinizes each one of your devices, turning the wireless off on your stolen weapons and electronics before running a tag eraser across your body slowly and methodically.
It pulses and clicks, creating an acrid smell of ozone as it fries the embedded tags in your clothes
Can't be too sure lads. We've got a bit of a drive, so get your heads down for a bit. Keep the wireless off until we get em cleaned up properly.
The van must have joined the main road shortly after he'd finished zapping your outfits as the lurching and swerving stopped and the road surface felt a lot smoother.
A few minutes down the road, you heard the screaming of sirens race past your van on the opposite carriageway, eliciting nothing but a long gaze at his wristwatch as they blared past.
Taking the man's advice, you do your best to get comfy in the cramped confines of the van's inward facing seats but it was hard to wind down after the morning's traumatic events.
Dunk managed to slip into a bit of a doze, his head rolling and lolling with the undulations of the road surface and the motion of the van but he soon gave up, waking up every time his head hit his chest.
Around forty minutes had passed before the van slid to a noisy halt on a gravel driveway. The awkward silence in the van made it feel more like a week had passed, and the cloying smell of stale cigs making the opening of the door more of a relief than it should have been.
The door slides open to reveal an old style country estate, a long gravel driveway wound it's way down the hill away from your house beyond a thicket of trees and looped around a sculpted roundabout complete with fountains by the front entrance.
The entrance itself was incredibly grandiose, marble steps led up to a wide wooden doorway, with one half of the doorway held open by a particularly well dressed man. A twin seater light aircraft sat at rest in the huge lawn to the right of the house, the condensation on its windshield showing it had been here for a few hours at least.
"Go on up, Smith's waiting for you in the drawing room."
The men climbed back into the van, slid the door closed and rumbled away at a slow pace around the roundabout and back down the long driveway leaving you alone on the gravel.
The well dressed figure by the door gestured to you to hurry up.