"Where are we?" Agent Shaw hissed to the other men and women around her.
"His phone is either turned off or has been destroyed. Not being able to trace him that way, we have been searching through video footage near the places where his phone last pinged off. It's a big area in Brooklyn, but we are slowly narrowing it down" the agent assured.
"Okay, good." She paused for a moment, "So where was he last seen?"
"Richard's last known whereabouts was captured on ATM video footage getting out of a taxi on Bay 47th street."
"Okay call up on that taxi driver. Find out where he picked Rick up from and what his was mood like. Was he paranoid, worried, overly happy? I want every detail."
Agent Shaw then went to walk away but was stopped by the young agent again. All she wanted was to get a cup of coffee and sit down, but that obviously wasn't happening any time soon.
"Agent Shaw there's something else you should see" the young man said and gestured her to look at the screen that was laid out in front of him. "Rick wasn't the only one in that car; another man was with him but didn't get out at the same stop as Mr Castle."
"Okay so he may be involved or he could've just shared the taxi with the guy." She paused for a moment to think through her options. "Okay send this video down to tech to see if they can enhance the footage to at least try to identify the other man. Get your men to rake through footage to try and find where the taxi went after Mr Castle's departure and put a few extra men on trying to find that taxi and its driver. If it has video surveillance it could be the big break we need to identify the other man. Call me when you get something, I'm now officially on break."
"Will do Ma`am." He said then walked over to the other agents and detectives and briefed them on the situation and what to do.
Ryan and Espo were stuck on raking through the video footage from around the city trying to find where the taxi went.
"How the hell did we get stuck with this job?" Esposito complained.
"At least they didn't send us home like last time. Let's just help find the son of a b*tch who kidnapped our friend" Ryan exclaimed.
They were still two hours in and it was pretty much hopeless. They had screened hours and hours of footage and neither Rick nor the taxi had popped.
"Dude we've gotten literally nowhere except that we now know that there is a sale on at the bridal shop and tonnes of crazy brides trampled each other to get the 'perfect dress'" Esposito said sarcastically.
"Hey that will be Lanie soon" Ryan smirked.
"Shut up dude" he snarled back.
Agent Shaw returned from her break three hours later.
"Anything?" she called out into the room not caring who answered her. Of course it was the leading agent who answered. Shaw thought his name was Read but she was too tired to care.
"We have found the taxi driver and are bringing him in now. The taxi has no cameras so it's a no go on that lead but CSU and sweeping it now."
"Yep, ok good. What's the guy's name?" Shaw murmured back. He hadn't slept since Kate had called her which was over forty-eight hours ago. She made a mental note to call her daughter after the interrogation.
"His name is Mike Terrance. Born and bred in New York lost his job as a manager at an electronic store a few months back and had to take up this job to pay rent." The agent lifted up a folder and pulled out a photo that Shaw presumed was Terrance. He looked clean and was well groomed, certainly didn't look like a guy who would be caught up in a kidnapping.
"Okay when he gets here prep him for me. Put him in interrogation room one."
"Will do ma`am." The agent then sat back down and turned to his computer and continued to scroll through surveillance footage.
Shaw sat in the break room with her phone in her hands contemplating to ring her daughter. She hadn't spoken to Sarah in two days and she knew the ten year old would be restless. She dug deep and found the courage and dialled home.
"Hello" a man answered her husband Peter.
"Hey honey is Sarah still up?" she was putting on a sweet voice because she knew he would be pissed at her for not calling.
"Yeah I will get her for you." He didn't sound as angry as she thought.
She then heard some fumbling from the other end of the line as he handed the phone over to his daughter.
"Hello Mummy" the little girl said excitedly.
"Hey sweetie. How are you?"
"I'm good, Riley is over tonight remember?"
Was it really Friday?
"Yeah I remember sweetie. How was school?"
The little girl chuckled; obviously something funny happened on the movie they were watching. By what Jordan could hear it was the Little Mermaid.
"Yeah it was fun. We got to play with the computers today. Have you saved your friend yet mummy?"
She didn't know how to answer. "Not quite yet sweetie. He will be fine though." Shaw could see someone waving her down from the outside of the break room. Terrance must have arrived. "Sweetie I'm sorry but I have to go. Sweet dreams Sarah."
"Night Mummy. Go slay those dragons."
"Will do" she replied before hanging up the phone. It didn't matter how many times she had to hang up on that little girl it never got easier.
She exited the break room and walked over to the interrogation room.
"He's here I'm guessing?" Shaw hissed at the officer on the door. All he could do was give a nod in return. It's not her fault that people got scared of her when she snapped. She was deep into a sleep deprivation state and would stop functioning soon without it. She made another note to take a nap after she was done here.
She walked through the door into the interrogation room and saw the man sitting at the table in the middle of the room.
"Hello Mr Terrance, Welcome."
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