Emma and Regina remained in the apartment with the Charlie team to continue the search.
"Emma, what are we looking for exactly?" Regina asked and went to the closet on the other side of the living room.
"Basically anything that could help us locates the rest of the gang and prevents the weapons from being stolen."
"I'll ask Brown to check Neal's phone and maybe he has their phone numbers." Regina told Emma and went outside the apartment door to make the call.
While Regina made the call, Emma continued to look for clues to help solve the problem.
Emma went to the suspect's bedroom and looked in the drawers.
She found an old brown shoebox and there were bags of white stuff that Emma believed were heroin and there were also syringes. Not exactly what she wanted but at least it will be enough to convict Neal in drug possession.
Emma continued searching and went to one of the closets in Neal's room. When she opened the cabinet door she noticed a few drawers and behind the drawers was a small television showing the rooms in the house and the entrance to the house.
In a small window on the TV screen she can see Regina outside the house talking on the phone; in another window she saw her teammates searching the rest of the house.
She realized that the house was surrounded by closed circuit cameras and hoped that television was the main source and that the cameras did not broadcast in addition to another place.
She opened the first drawer and saw the pistol and the second drawer was the gun bullets.
After a while searching the rest of the drawers Emma realized that they wouldn't find other clues that could help them solve the problem of theft.
But she decided to continue searching together with the staff in other rooms.
Regina finished the phone call and went back into the room where Emma was.
They had been inside the house for almost two hours looking for evidence to link the theft to Neal or any one of Gold's gang.
The street was crowded with policemen and various vehicles belonging to their agency and police.
Regina decided she needed a break from the searches and went to Emma. "I'm going out of the house to get some air, I need a break. Do you want to join me?" She asked Emma and waited for an answer. "No, I'm fine, I think I'll finish this room and then go back home, what do you think?"
"That's good, so I'll be out, come and tell me you're done and we can go away." Regina said to Emma and headed for the exit.
"Sounds good, I'll keep an eye on you through the camera so you will not run away by mistake." Emma laughed and winked at Regina. Regina rolled her eyes at Emma and exits the door.
…..
Gold sent his boys to follow Regina.
After the picture was revealed in the security camera of the group's hidden apartment, he could follow the car that Regina had driven through the license plate number. His boys know that if there's an opportunity to kidnap Regina and get her, they'll do it.
The two guys were standing on the other side of the street from Neil's house, they told Gold that Neal had been taken into custody and the police had raided his house.
The boys were disguised as policemen so as not to attract attention to themselves.
They noticed that Regina was leaving the house alone and went to her car. There was no one around. Most of the policemen were inside the house and at the beginning of the street there was a checkpoint with two police patrols, but the policemen sat inside the car. They thought they would have no better chance of snatching Regina.
The first guy looked at the other guy and they both nodded and agreed to seize the opportunity.
The first guy was a big guy, dark-skinned, wearing a black uniform and sunglasses, looking a bit odd because it was already evening and there was no sun.
The other guy also has black uniforms but his appearance is different, his skin color is lighter and he smaller than the first guy.
They decided between them that the first guy would be the one to carry out Regina's kidnapping and the other guy would bring the car.
Regina waited by the car, she leaned against him gently taking the fresh air of the evening.
She was focused on looking at the house; she did not notice the figure approaching her, after a few minutes the boy stood next to her.
Regina immediately panicked and put her hands on her chest.
"Sorry, I did not mean to frighten you." The young man said with a smile, Regina calmed down and said, "It's okay, I just did not see you for a minute, I must have been too focused on something else."
"Do you mind if I join you?"
"No, no problem, but I did not catch your name officer ..."
"Oh, Johnson, Mike Johnson is very nice to meet you," he said, reaching for Regina to shake hands.
Inside the house Emma occasionally glanced at the security cameras to check that Regina did not run away and left her alone, she noticed that Regina was talking to one of the policemen.
Emma looked at the TV screen to watch the policeman closely.
The police were inside the house, so why was this policeman outside, she looked at the picture to see if he was smoking.
Emma continued to look at the policeman and examined his body, he was muscular and large, and the uniform on his body looked narrow and tight.
She kept looking at the screen and seeing the conversation between the policeman and Regina, something about the policeman's behavior would not have seemed natural. She thought she was just paranoid and in a few minutes she would finish the last drawer in the room and go out to Regina.
….
Outside the house Regina continued to stand by the vehicle and the policeman stood beside her.
"So, why are you not inside with the rest of the guys?" Regina asked the policeman and looked at him; something about him did not seem natural to her. He was too nervous and his uniform was certainly too small. But she said nothing about it and waited for an answer.
He began talking to her and without raising Regina's suspicion; he took a white cloth out of his pocket and began pouring dark matter from a small brown bottle.
The atmosphere between them immediately changed, he became more serious and firm and Regina immediately felt insecure, she could catch a sweet smell in the air but she was not sure to what the smell belonged to. She did not recognize the smell at first until it was too late.
The officer put the cloth over her mouth and nose and held it tight.
Regina from fear began to take more rapid breaths which made her inhale the material faster. She felt she was beginning to lose consciousness, now she knew what the sweet smell was, it was chloroform, and after a few seconds she stopped struggling with her abductor's hands and lost consciousness. The officer picked her up in a bridal style and started walking toward the big white van waiting for him. They got into the car and within five minutes they disappeared.
…..
Emma could not calm her thoughts and decided to look at the TV screen again. She looked just in time to see the officer holding a white cloth on Regina's face and picking her up in a bridal style and walking toward the white vehicle waiting for him. She immediately sprang to her feet and ran quickly out of the house. She could see the vehicle speeding toward the exit of the street and disappear.
She started to run after the car but she was not fast enough to catch him.
Emma fell to the ground and whispered sadly, "No, Regina." She was furious that she let it happen and did not listen to her instincts. She assured herself that she would find Regina at all costs.
