The girl curled into a ball closet to the car door, way away from Monk who sat in the back with her.
"She's afraid of Monk," the Captain kind of chuckled. "shouldn't that be the other way around."
"Captain," Natalie glared at him.
"Sorry, it's just….." he didn't finish, he just got in the car.
Just outside the front door to the child serves building Monk finds a teddy bear. He stares at it, without picking it up. Then remembers what Randy said about Tommy having one that he never let go of. Monk picked up the bear, he knew now that something was terribly wrong. Something happened to Tommy.
"Where's randy?" he questioned.
"He's supposed to be watching Tommy. Why?" the Captain turn to look at Monk.
"Is he?" Monk held up the bear.
"What is that?"
"Tommy's stuffed bear." The girl said, out the window, that Natalie let down.
Monk walked up to the back of the car.
"How did you know that?" he said looking in at her. She scooted back across the seat away from him and lowered her when she spoke to him. "I…." she sighed. "He never let go of it."
"You lived with him?" Natalie turned to face her.
"Some."
"Some?" Monk shook his head, "what does that mean?" The Captain went inside the building. Randy was sitting in the lobby with a bag of ice pressed to the back of his head.
"Randy what happened?"
"I was hit on the head with something, I'm not sure what and when I woke up, he was…."
"What Randy? Where's Tommy?"
"I don't know he was just gone."
"Gone?" the Captain stared at Randy. "How can he just be gone? Where did he go?"
"I don't know, I just know he was gone."
"You mean kidnapped?"
"Maybe." He pressed the ice harder against his head. "Thanks for asking how I'm." he said under his breath.
"I heard that." The Captain responded with a smile. "Just that the kid is in great danger, we have to find him." Natalie and Monk entered into the lobby with the girl.
"that's the one in the picture," one of the other officer said. Natalie nodded his direction.
"It is. We found her in the basement. We are about to interview her." Monk took the teddy bear and went into one of the conference rooms, the Captain followed.
"She seems to only speak to Natalie, so she must know something." Monk sat down in one of the chairs. "that's why I've asked her to talk to her, while I sit in here. She…."
"She seems to be hesitant with us, she was like that to me too. Maybe she was abused or even worse….." the Captain swallowed, not wanting to think about it. "raped." Monk just looked up at him then back down at the bear that he was holding on to. Monk feeling around the edge of the bear found a zipper on its side.
"Look at this." He was saying to the Captain but he wasn't in there with Monk anymore. Monk looked up and not seeing that the Captain was with him any more he unzipped the bear. A book, some papers and a videotape fall out. Monk shatters the papers and pushes the video out of the way. He picks up the book titled… "Monk Adventures."