"Son, I have two cops and an A.P.B. out- back off." The Sergeant told Hyde.
"What about her?" he asked, gesturing to Angie. "Does she get arrested as an accessory or something?"
"Hey!" Angie shrilled.
"No... she didn't help kidnap her..."
"But, it's her fault..."
"Son, the most I can do is use a loophole to get her for solicitation, since she paid the man to flirt with and possibly sleep with the girl." he said tiredly.
"Okay, do that."
"Steven..." W.B. sighed.
"You're just gonna let her get by with it? That's her whole problem; you let her get by with everything! She deserves some punishment other than this nancy idea of guilt, which for all we know she's faking."
Angie's lower lip quivered, but Fez walked over and whispered in Hyde's ear. Hyde swore, and grabbed Angie by the hand. "Come on," he said to her, "let's go for a drive."
"I'm not sure it's a good idea, you're still mad-"
"You want me to get over it? You come on." he said, and Angie followed him, Fez and Kelso out the door.
W.B. looked at Kelso's C.O.
"Best you let those two work it out themselves." he advised. "I've got teenagers of my own, and they have never gotten into mess like this, but... trust me, you'll do better not to play monkey in the middle."
W.B. nodded, rubbing his forehead with a sigh.
Meanwhile, driving around in a police cruiser so they didn't have to obey the traffic laws, Hyde and the others had stopped to pick up Eric.
"Hyde, you should really let me drive, man." Kelso whined. "I'm the cop."
Hyde growled at him and he shrunk back.
"This seems like a pointless waste of gas." Eric observed. "I mean, we don't know where to look."
"That's why we have Angie here. She knows Kenny. And, stop with the teary-eyed chip on your shoulder, just tell me what you know."
Angie sighed.
"Okay, fine. His grandmother has a house on the corner of Waverly and Bleeker." she offered. "It's not like he'd take her out to play pool or something. I don't know alot about him or his friends, but, I know that he used to like Charlie's."
"Charlie's? Man, that's a rough joint..." Eric said with a low whistle.
"Oh, what do you know, Foreman? You've never even been in there..."
"Because it's a rough joint!" Eric blurted.
Hyde rolled his eyes, pulling out to where Angie had told him the grandmother lived. "We'll try here first." he said. "Which house?" he asked, looking at the dilapidated neighborhood, very similar to the neighborhood he himself had lived in before Edna split and the Foreman's took him in.
"The one that's kind of pink and blue and gray." she said softly.
Hyde pulled off to the side of the yard.
"Okay, you stay here." he ordered to Angie. "You guys follow my lead, and shut up. Let me do all the talking."
Hyde knocked on the door. No one answered.
"Hyde, the kidnapper isn't just gonna come to the door and say, 'hey, she's tied up in the basement'." Fez pointed out.
"Well, maybe not, but I'm not kicking the door in on some old lady's house if I'm wrong." Hyde ground out.
Still no one had answered the door, so Hyde tried the knob. It was locked, so he walked around to the back.
"Look all around; check doors, windows, see if there's another way in." he said, and the boys surrounded the house.
Finally, Hyde found a window that wasn't locked, and slipped inside. He looked around the empty house, calling out.
"Jackie! Jacks, are you here?"
"Steven!" he heard from a back room, and started racing towards the beautiful sound.
"Steven, hurry, please..."
Hyde tried the door, but it was locked, so he kicked it open, and there she was, her delicate wrists and ankles cuffed to the bed. He raced over, gathering her into his arms, raining kisses all over her face.
"You saved me... you came for me..." she smiled.
"Of course I would... I haven't slept... I've been scared to death..."
He felt rather than saw the boys behind him and reached his hand back towards Kelso.
"You got cuff keys on ya?"
"Yes. I'm not allowed to carry handcuffs anymore, but-"
"Just gimme." he said, snatching them and unlocking her from her bonds.
Jackie's arms went tight around his neck, and he held her just as tight, resting his face in her hair, his cheek against hers. Meanwhile, Eric took the key from him and unlocked her ankles, and Hyde finally pulled back a little to look into her face.
"Guys, give us a minute, and keep lookout." he said, stroking her hair gently as he stared into her beautiful face, which was slightly bruised.
The boys went out of the room into the hallway, shutting the door behind them.
"Did he hurt you?"
Jackie looked down, her eyes no longer wanting to meet his, but Hyde tilted her chin up gently with his hand.
"Jackie. Did he hurt you?"
Jackie blinked back tears, but shook her head. "No... he scared me, he got a little gropey...but he didn't..." she said, swallowing hard.
Hyde pulled her closer, relief flooding through his frame, and he lifted her into his arms, carrying her out of the room...