Staring down at the unconscious man lying on the ground he couldn't help but smile. His plan had worked. He breathed a sigh of relief that taking the risk of breaking into the SRU office in order to drug him had paid off. The man had been weakened and therefore easily overpowered by himself. He realised he probably didn't have much time before someone noticed the missing presence of their team member so he got to work.

He crouched down next to the man and started by turning off his radio so that there was no chance of anyone overhearing him. Next he lifted the man up slightly to remove his bulletproof vest tossing it to the side before dropping him back onto the ground. He checked the man for weapons taking anything he found throwing it on top of the vest. Feeling satisfied that the man was safe enough to transport he walked round to his head, grabbed the man by he wrists and started dragging him towards the door.

Standing at the top of a flight stairs just inside the door he whistled causing his partner who was standing at the bottom of them keeping watch to look up. He gave him a slight nod signalling that he had him and to come up and help move him. Together the picked the unconscious man up and started moving down the stairs.

The building had fifteen floors and so had a lot of stairs but the two men were in shape so had managed to get down the stairs quickly even with the extra weight they were carrying. Reaching the basement level which contained a car park the quickly exited through the door and headed straight for the van they knew was waiting for them.

Within seconds the men had reached the van, threw the man they were carrying into the back one man going with him the other into the driver's seat and started the engine. He was about to drive away when he suddenly turned round to his partner.

"Did you take care of the security cameras?" Urgency was clear in his voice as he realised he had forgotten about them earlier.

"Relax. Disabled them all before we entered the car park. No one will have any evidence we were here." His partner slickly.


Nodding he turned back around and began to drive out of the car park and towards the next location.

"What's taking him so long?" Jules said to no one in particular. She was beginning to get impatient. While he had been up there packing up his riffle the rest of the team had managed to arrest the suspect, ensure all hostages were all right, clear the rest of the building, hand the scene over to the police and pack up the SUV's ready to leave. Put the gun in the bag and walk down the stairs. What's so hard about that?

Jules was leaning against one of the SUV's with the rest of the team standing around her. She looked at their faces and saw they were all beginning to get a bit impatient each of them glancing frequently to the building Sam was in. She was just about to have another rant in her mind about how long it was taking him to come down when Greg's voice interrupted her.

"Sam, what's taking so long?" Greg was saying over the radio.

No answer came.

"Sam, you there?" Greg's voice had more insistency this time. It wasn't like Sam not to answer.

Still no answer.

"Sam, answer me, where are you?"

The third time no answer came Jules had a small wave of worry pass over her. Looking around at her team she saw their faces all seemed to say the same thing. That they had begun to worry too.

"Ed, you and Jules go up to the roof and check on Sam" Greg had instructed.

She didn't need to be told twice. The second she had said it she had taken of running for the building with Ed following behind. It's probably nothing. Just got himself locked out on the roof or something. You're worrying over nothing. Relax.

Entering the building the pair took off up the stairs. They hadn't come across anybody on the way up so they figured Sam was still on the roof and had expected to see him when the went through the door at the top of the stairs.

Opening the door and stepping onto the roof Jules began to look around but her eye was instantly caught by the items lying on the ground. Sam's bulletproof vest, his gun, his radio and the riffle were all laying in a heap a few steps away from the door. Jules immediately began searching the roof for Sam with her eyes but the search turned up empty. Moving over to the pile of Sam's belongings on the ground her mind was working over time. Where's Sam? What's happened? Is he okay?

Ed couldn't hide the fact that he had been shocked to find Sam's stuff on the roof but no Sam. He had walked around the whole roof looking everywhere but Sam wasn't there and he had no idea where he was.

"Ed, what's happening?" Greg's voice sounded over the radio.

"Boss, Sam's gone." He replied his tone full of disbelief.