"How did you get this job anyway?" Tommy asked her as they got their seats. Alanna looked from the window to look at Tommy who was beside her.

"Michel is a family friend and he called me" Alanna partially lied.

"So you just dropped everything back home to come here? Not much going on back there?" Tommy asked.

Alanna rolled her eyes.

"Why are you being so annoying? We've got a long trip ahead of us, please, if you're going to say something let it pertain to the case and not me!" Alanna quietly snapped.

But it only got a soft chuckle out of him.

"Excuse me for wanting to be more interested in you. Wasn't it just a few moments ago that you were angry that I could care less about what happened between us? Well here I am trying and you seem to not want it at all." Tommy said with a smirk.

Tommy aggravated Alanna and not too much in a bad way. He knew how to push her buttons, get a rise out of her. Very few people were able to do that, and the fact that he was breaking down her walls was scaring her.

"How about we just focus on this case?" Alanna quipped back, trying not to think too much into what he had just said.

"Sure thing, banphrionsa" He teased, calling her a princess in Gaelic.

She glared at him but couldn't help a small smile from forming on her face. She quickly turned her head to face the window so he wouldn't see that she was falling for his charm.

But Tommy knew he was getting into her heart. He smiled confidently knowing he was slowing breaking down her barriers.

Alanna set up her iPad for them to review the case so time could go by faster.

"The body is so badly beaten" Alanna said, looking at the picture of the dead woman with red hair. Tommy stretched his long legs out and rested them on the seat in front of them.

"Aye, somebody was pissed" he said, nonchalantly.

"Can you take this more seriously, and get your feet off that seat. Someone could get on and want that seat" Alanna quipped at him, slapping his leg.

"Oh please, this is so no one will sit across from us" He quipped back, getting comfortable.

"You're such a bum" Alanna said under her breath.

"And you're a drama queen" he said back, hearing what she said.

Alanna was going to reply but a call came in on her iPad from Sebastian.

"Sebastian is calling" Alanna said, forcing Tommy to sit straight and lean in towards Alanna for him to see the screen.

Alanna hit the accept button and Sebastian's face appeared and as well as Louis, who was back at The Hague.

"We're here Sebastian" Alanna said.

"Forensics and Pathologists are going to have their hands full here" He said.

"Why's that?" Alanna questioned.

"7 corpses have been found in various stages of decomposition" Sebastian revealed.

"We've found ourselves a dumping ground. So it's either a serial killer or organized crime" Hickman said.

"Both are territorial" Tommy added.

"I don't know. The last victim doesn't fit the victimology for a hit. I mean, if this were organized crime, there would be something left behind ya know? Like a 'hey I'm from this mob' kind of token. Same goes for serial killers. They usually leave some sort of distinctive signature behind" Alanna said

"Looking at the bodies here, its blunt force everywhere. That can count as a signature. The skeletal remains show signs of fractures as well." Hickman said.

"I correlated my own database with paneuropean missing people database and bodies found along the discovery site. So far, at least, 29 cases bear similarities" Sebastian revealed.

"29 cases?" Tommy asked, shocked.

"So whoever this is, jus picks someone up in Czech Republic, kill them in Poland, and dump their bodies in Germany? That's pretty wicked, huh?" Alanna muttered, looking at Tommy.

"Cross border and ongoing. Sebastian, tell the local police to send DNA samples to the major European Authorities. If we're lucky well get something from victim identification" Louis said.

"On it" Sebastian replied.

"Tommy and Alanna, let me know when you've seen the car in Poland" Louis ordered.

"Yes, sir" Alanna replied before logging off.

"Well looks like this just got ten times harder" Tommy sighed.

"My god, 29 cases. This killer has been doing this for years now and no one has noticed?" Alanna muttered, shocked.

"Well have and we're going to do something about it" Tommy assured.

"I hope not before another person finds themselves buried in the ground, beaten to death" Alanna replied, leaning back in her seat.

They finally reached Poland in the next few hours and went straight to the Police. An officer showed them to the car.

"Why is the ICC interested in an abandoned vehicle in Poland?" The officer asked Alanna. Tommy was a few steps behind her, looking at the ground as he walked.

He was looking at something.

"Coolant" Tommy said. Alanna looked down to see some on the ground that lead straight to the car. Tommy picked up his pace and popped the hood of the car open. He then began to look around and found something.

"What's he doing?" The officer asked.

Alanna just put her hand up and shook her head, indicating to the officer that Tommy knew what he was doing.

"There's a puncture in the radiator hose. Too clean to be natural. That's manmade" Tommy said, showing Alanna. She snapped a few pictures with her phone and sent the information to Louis.

"So you drive this and then it will suddenly die. How long do you think it will go?" Alanna asked Tommy.

"40 kilometers max" He replied. Alanna pulled out her phone once again and looked at a map.

"There's nothing within that radius from where the car was found, except for this rest stop" Alanna said, showing Tommy.

"Let's pay them a visit, shall we?" Tommy asked.

They reached the rest stop within half an hour and walked into the garage where cars get service.

"Hello?! Anybody here?" Alanna asked, out loud as they walked in and looked around for someone.

"Hi, there! What can I do for you?" An older man wearing a plaid shirt and a beanie on his head asked.

"Hi, we're from the ICC. I'm agent Alanna Flynn and this is detective Tommy McConnel. We're investigating this vehicle that stopped here a few days ago. Do you remember it?" Alanna said, showing him a picture from her phone.

He looked at it and without blinking he shook his head.

"Sorry, I don't" He said.

"The driver had a tattoo on his arm. Are you sure you don't remember?" Alanna pressed.

"I don't think so" The man said

"Show him the other one" Tommy said to Alanna. She flipped to the next picture of the car found in Poland

"How about this one?" Alanna asked. The man smiled and nodded.

"That one I remember. I serviced it, they filled it up" He said.

"You must check a lot of cars. Why do you remember that one?" Alanna questioned.

"The police called me out to the highway the next morning because they broke down. Their radiator line was punctured" The man said.

"Yeah? You didn't notice that on your check up?" Tommy questioned.

"It wasn't that way when they came to me." The man said.

"You're sure?" Alanna pressed.

"I checked. I would have seen it. They were totally okay. They did stop at the restaurant afterwards. Maybe someone did it while they were inside" The man said with a shrug.

Alanna gave him a short smile.

"Well, thank you then" She said, before leaving with Tommy.

Tommy called Sebastian to inform him of everything they had learned.

At the same time, Alanna got a call from Major Louis. He informed her that the Czech Police had found pieces of the man with the tattoo scattered along the highway. Sebastian informed Tommy of the couple they had found who was a witness to the man with the abandoned car. Major Louis wanted everyone in Germany at the Police Headquarters. There was a lead on who the killers could be, according to Hickman and Sebastian. Tommy drove fast and they got to the headquarters just as the team was discussing the case.

"They make two couples fight" Alanna heard Hickman said as she and Tommy approached the conference room.

"Fight?" Louis asked.

"Fight to the death" Hickman replied as she and Tommy walked in.

"Did we miss anything?" Tommy asked, with a bit of sarcasm

Hickman handed Alanna drawings that the couple's daughter had drawn. They looked like trucks to her.

"Long Haul Truckers are our killers. They're hunting people like a game" Eva explained.

"Predators" Sebastian added.

"The FBI established a highway serial killer database in the U.S. There are over 500 suspected serial deaths on that database" Alanna explained.

"All by truck drivers?" Tommy asked, in disbelief.

"Makes sense. Here we have open European borders. Long Haulers moving from country to country in a matter of hours" Eva said.

"The flow of the highway is their smoke screen" Sebastian added.

"The couple we brought in said they were threatened. They said the drivers would find their daughter and kill her if they told anyone" Hickman said.

"Both cars were sabotaged?" Louis asked.

"Radiator hoses punctured" Tommy answered.

"So the truckers arrive, offer then a ride and then they find themselves in a holding cell in the truck. They're taken to an empty area where they have to fight for their lives against another couple" Hickman said.

"Like a fight club where someone else takes all the punishment" Tommy said.

"I bet there was a betting line too" Sebastian said.

"They let the winners go?" Louis asked.

"Yeah, but they'll never forget it for the rest of their lives" Hickman replied.

"Yeah but why were they allowed to just go after winning?" Alanna asked.

"Winner takes all? They proved worthy maybe." Tommy said.

"They leave witnesses every time. It's risky" Louis added.

"But how risky? They participated in killing someone. The truckers probably kept some sort of media evidence of it" Sebastian said.

"And they threaten the life of their child" Hickman added.

"But maybe that's what they're looking for. People with kids? I mean it's the best kind of leverage. You take the kid or threaten the kid in anyway and the parents will do almost anything" Alanna said.

"Did the other couple, the guy with tattoo and girl with red hair, have a kid in the car?" Eva asked.

Sebastian pulled up the footage and they discovered a child in the car.

"It's a boy. Where is he now?" Sebastian's friend, who works for the German Police, asked.

"Sebastian, how much of that video do you have archived?" Tommy asked, from the other side of the room. He was staring at a bulletin board.

"A lot, why?" Sebastian asked.

"Because this family went missing yesterday" Tommy said, pulling the notice off the board and showing it to the team.

Alanna's heart dropped.

They caught another family.

"We need to get to that rest stop now. I'm pretty sure that guy that we spoke to earlier had something to do with all this" Alanna said.

And the race to find the family was on.


Does anyone know if the show got renewed for a second season?! I hope it does! Anyway, please leave reviews!