Chapter 3: Searching & Demands

An hour had passed since Jesse, Daisy, and Cooter had left the Boars Nest. Now they were all over Hazzard trying to find Bo and Luke, but they had no luck. They searched for them everywhere they could go. Finally, they met up at Cooter's Garage in town. "Now what? We looked everywhere," said an exhausted Daisy. "We didn't even find the General."

"Do you think they went in the lake?" asked Cooter. No one answered that question, hoping that wasn't true.

"Well," Jesse said, standing up, "there's only one thing to do. We gotta file a missin' person's report."

"What?! Do you really think Boss and Rosco are gonna help?" Daisy asked her uncle. Cooter nodded in agreement.

"Well who knows. But if they don't, they can just answer to me," Jesse said, as he walked across the street to the Sheriff's office. Cooter and Daisy just smiled and followed him. They walked in the office and was greeted by Enos.

Enos smiled when he saw his friends, but smiled bigger when he saw Daisy. "Hi Uncle Jesse, Cooter," he said. "Hi Daisy."

"Hi Enos," greeted Daisy. "You haven't seen the boys have you?" she asked him.

"No. I haven't seen them since me and Rosco chased them this mornin'. I'm sorry."

"It's okay Enos," said Jesse. "Is JD in his office?" he asked him.

"He sure is Uncle Jesse," Enos answered. Jesse went to Boss' office and opened the door with everyone else behind him.

"What the? Jesse? What are you doin' here?" asked a surprised Boss. He was sitting at this desk while Rosco was standing next to him.

"We need your help JD. We want to file a missin' person's report," Jesse said.

"You do?" asked a shocked Boss. "Who's missin'?"

"Bo and Luke are," Cooter said. "They were here this mornin', but now we can't find 'em."

"I don't believe you!" said Boss.

"Neither do I! You Dukes lie all the time," agreed Rosco.

"Listen JD, we ain't lying. And you know that us Dukes don't lie, don't ya?" asked Jesse, eyeing Boss. But before Boss could answer, his phone started to ring.

Rosco went to answer it, but Boss beat him to it. "Say 'Hello from Rosco!' " said a smiling Rosco.

"Hello from ---- Rosco!" yelled Boss at his sheriff. He went back to his phone. "Hello?" he said.

"Hello Hogg," said the voice on the other end.

"Who is this?" asked Boss.

The voice laughed. "This is your worst nightmare. Now I know the Dukes are in your office, so put this on speaker."

"How'd you know they were here?" Boss asked, shocked.

"Just do it!" yelled the voice.

"Okay," said Boss as he put the conversation on speaker.

"Good," said the voice. "My name is Floyd, and my brother and I have the Duke boys."

"You have them?! What for?!" yelled Jesse.

"Calm down old man!" Floyd yelled back. "We have our reasons."

"How do we know you really have them?" asked Cooter.

"Let me ---- prove it to you," said Floyd, with a smile on his face. It was quiet for a couple minutes in Boss' office til they heard a familiar voice on the other end.

"Uncle Jesse?" asked Luke.

"Luke!" said a happy Daisy.

"Luke? You alright?" asked Jesse.

"I'm fine Uncle Jesse."

"What 'bout Bo? Is he with you?"

"Yeah he is. He's fine too. Uncle Jesse ----." He was cut off when Floyd went back on.

"There. Believe me now?" he asked.

"Yeah we do. But what do you want?" asked Jesse.

"We want Hogg to give us $500,000."

"What?! $500,000?! Nuh-huh, I don't think so," Boss said, shaking his head.

"Yes you are JD!" said Jesse.

"Listen!" yelled Floyd. "You have exactly 24 hours to tell me if you're gonna do this or not. If you say yes, I'll tell you the rest and the boys will live. If you say no, then the boys willdie. I will call you to get your answer. It's your choice Hogg," Floyd said as he hung up. Boss hung up his phone and looked up at a fuming Jesse.

"You're gonna pay them the money JD!" he yelled.

"I'm sorry Jesse, but no! Now get out of my office 'fore I have Rosco and Enos arrest all 3 of you for tresspassin'!" yelled Boss.

"Come on Uncle Jesse," Daisy said as she led her uncle to the door.

"Yeah. We can get the money ourselves," said Cooter as he followed Jesse and Daisy out the door.

Back at the house, Floyd and Ben were talking about their plan. "So, you were right. Now how are we going to get the town to get Hogg to pay the money?" asked Ben.

"Easy," Floyd said, picking up the phone again. "We make a little phone call to Hogg's radio station." Ben sat at the table watching his brother talk on the phone. A few minutes later, Floyd put the phone down and sat across from his brother with a smile on his face. "There. The next time they go on air, the whole town will know. Then they'll demand Hogg to pay us."

They sat there listening to the radio, until they finally heard what they've been waiting for. "Turn it up Ben," Floyd said. Ben did what he was told and listened.

"And I just got a phone call from someone who would like to be named anonymous. He told me that him and his brother kidnapped the Duke boys! They demanded money from Boss Hogg, but he denied! And they said that if they don't get the money they'll kill the Duke boys!" Ben turned the radio off and looked at his brother.

"Well, he aired it. Let's just hope that it works," Floyd said.

The Dukes were at Cooter's Garage when they heard the news on the radio. "I can't believe they did that!" said an angry Daisy.

"Well, I can see why they did it," Cooter said, pointing towards the Court House. Jesse and Daisy looked at where he was pointing and saw a few people standing at the doors of the Court House.

Daisy turned back to Jesse. "Now what are we gonna do?"

"Well, hopefully this plan of theirs will work and JD will pay them. Then, maybe, we'll get the boys back."