Episode one: Vol

Stone Mart Bank

A bank robbery early in the morning had the New York City Crime lab busy in the middle of the day.

"So what happened here?" Lindsey asked from her open evidence kit. "Besides the obvious?"

"I can only say its a bank robbery right now." Mac replied. "We know from witness statements that two suspects came in from the back and one suspect came in from the front. They left going the same way, they took a young girl with them. Flack is talking with her parents now."

Linsey looked over to see Flack talking to an older man and woman. Obviously the young girl's parents.

"They were clean and efficient, I only found a few bits of trace and some partial prints." Lindsey replied. "But I printed everything I could and collected the few bits of trace evidence that I found and went over every thing just to be sure I didn't miss anything."

"Adam is getting the security footage, we will see where that gets us. I'll see you back at the lab."

"Hopefully he finds something we can use." Lindsey said as she continued packing up her kit.

AV lab

The moment Adam got back to the lab he went right to the AV lab and got right to work on the security tapes. He sat in front of a bank if computer screens going over the footage from the Stone Mart Bank. He started with he day before and worked his way up to the roberry. He had yet to find anything but still had hours of footage to look through. He hoped he could find something he could take to Mac soon.

"Adam find anything yet?" Danny asked.

"No and that is bugging me. I've gotten to an hour before the robbery and nothing. I haven't seen a single thing." Adam replied. "Not even the bank manager hitting on a teller."

"I think the guys wife would like that but we don't always get something useful out of the security footage." Danny said. "And Adam think outside of the box."

Trace lab

Danny only left Adam alone to find his wife working in the trace lab. It would never get old to Danny. She was looking into a microscope and writing notes on a pad of paper beside it. And like she always did she made no move to show she knew he had walked in. Danny walked up behind her.

"Don't mess with me right now Danny." She said. "I think I found something that can help us find where they hid out. Take a look."

Danny did as he was told and looked. When he did he saw a green blob (of a plant cell) with tiny markings.

"So what is it?" Danny asked her.

"From what I can tell it is part of a foreign plant that was brought over from Japan planted in a part of Central Park that has been closed for six months for renovations. Can't hurt to look into the people working the project."

"You want me to tell Mac?"

"Sure I have some other things that I need to test."

"Okay see you later babe." Danny left after kissing the top of her head.

Central park renovation project

Flack, Mac, Danny, Jo and a slew of NYPD officers surrounded the project in teams. Mac had promised Jane Rowe's parents that he would do all he could to bring her home to them.

Methodically they searched the area until they all got to an old shed. Danny quickly got a pair of bolt cutters and cut the lock off. They all held thier breath as the door was pulled open. Inside was a mix of equipment and old mattress on the floor behind it all.

"Clear." Flack called. "Man this place smells worse than my apartment senior year of college. They hid out here for a while."

"Danny, Jo collect everything you can and take it back to the lab." Mac said. "I'm heading there now. Adam found something in the footage."

"I got a boss." Danny said.

AV lab

"Yes, thank g_d. Five hours and I finally found something." Adam cheered as he spun around in his chair cheering that he found something.

"Adam!" Mac called. "You said you found something?"

"Yess, sorry boss. I found something even bigger after I called you. I have it queued up. I want to see if you can spot it without any help."

Mac sat in Adam's now empty chair. Adam leaned forward to hit play and stepped and let it go. He stood waiting for Mac to say something but the video came to an end without Mac saying a single thing which worried Adam.

"Did you see it?"

"All the robbers were on the smaller side."

"Yes I caught that, then I zoomed in on the one next to the bank managers office and found this." Adam said as he hit a few buttons and brought up a still photo of the robbers wrist. On which was a charm braclet. "Gay or straight I don't know of any man that would wear something like that."

Interrigation room #2

After Adam found out where the charm came from Adam told Mac who had Jo go and question the girl.

"Miss. Ryan can you tell me about the bracelet in the photo?" Jo asked. "It looks a lot like the one you are wearing but with one small difference." Jo pulled out a small evidence baggie, inside was a small silver charm. "Does the charm belong to you?"

"It looks like mine." She said. "But the whole team has a charm just like that to celebrate going to state last year."

"Can I get a closer look of your bracelet?" Jo asked.

Haylee Ryan pulled back her sleeve and slipped her bracelet off and handed it over to Jo. Jo ran her finger along all of the charms and found Haylee's softball charm still in place. So she wasn't the girl in the video but it could still be one of her teammates. I planned on going to talk to the rest of the team.

White Cross Highs School: Gym

To make the girls on the team more comfortable Mac decided to have only Lindsey and Jo be the ones to question the girls. Lindsey and Jo had come to the high school and requested the girls softball team be pulled out of class. They were now all lined up in the gym (where they had been practicing) with thier arms held up. Jo and Lindsey started at each end of the line and worked thier way in. Lindsey was the first one to stop, the girl had a broken link but the charm wasn't the softball. It was Jo that found the girl with the missing softball charm.

"I am going to have you come with me for questioning." Jo said.

"But I didn't do anything." the girl cried.

"Your broken link and missing charm say otherwise. Wanda don't worry your parents can come with you."

Interrogation room #2

"Wanda can you tell me where Jane Rowe was taken, her parents really want her to come home."

"I had nothing to do with her. I was just in it for the money. I wanted to help out with my little brothers chemo treatments."

"Can you tell me who took Jane?"

"I'm not sure I should tell you. She could come after me too."

"Because you were part of the robbery you will be arrested and she won't be able to hurt you while in custody."

"Please people get shanked all the time in prison."

"Wanda just tell them already." Wanda's mother snapped.

"Allison Marco, she said that Jane was sleeping with her boy friend and wanted to get back at her for it."

Home of Allison Marco

Allison lived in a home with her grand mother who had been admitted to the hospital with a broken hip. That left Allison home all alone free to use the house as she wanted to.

Jo, Mac, Danny and Flack the Marco home. Flack gave the signal and they all went in from the front and moved back and up. In the last bed room they found a brused and battered girl. Mac knew who she was right away from the photo her parents gave him earlier. The girl was Jane Rowe.

"Suspect on the run." Flack yelled as he ran after Allison Marco out the back door. He caught her and slapped the cuffs on he and put her into the patrol car.

Jo had called for a bus and was now waiting for them to arrive. Once they did she pointed them in the direction of the back bedroom.

Mac help get Jane into the ambulance and told Jane that her parents would be waiting for her at the hospital.

"Today was a good day." Flack said.

"Yes, Jane will be with her parents and the robbers in jail where they should be." Mac said. "Let's go home."