When the detectives arrive at Charlie's house in Massachusetts, it is deserted.
They burst through the door, only to find the old mattress with an open laptop sitting on it. There is a note stuck to the laptop's screen.
You're a little too late! Casey is gone. Watch this video, and maybe you'll be able to find her this time.
Olivia reads the note aloud and calls everyone over, before she uses a gloved hand to click the "play" button.
The video shows Casey and Gabby tied up and gagged. Charlie is standing behind them with a pleased smirk. "Hello, detectives! I seen that you've found my old house. It's quite a shame that we're not there at the moment. I bet you want your precious little lawyer back. All you need to do is make the charges disappear, and she's all yours. Hell, I'll even throw in the little brat if you get me acquitted. I've invited some friends over to keep Casey and Gabby company until you come," he says to the camera. The video fades to black, and a riddle appears on the screen.
Figure it out before it's too late. From where did Casey graduate? Time is ticking. How long will you take? Here's a hint: think of a lake.
The answer to the riddle is Charlie, Casey, and Gabby's whereabouts
"Casey graduated from Harvard Law School, and the video said think of a lake. What lake is closest to Harvard?" Olivia says.
The detectives do some quick research, locate a lakehouse near Harvard Law School, then they head for Casey and Gabby.
Olivia and Elliot are the first to arrive at Charlie's location that was in the video. Amanda and Nick arrive shortly thereafter.
Once everyone arrives, they make a plan. Amanda and Nick will enter the house through the front door. Olivia and Elliot will sneak through the back door. Everyone else will cover an exit, so Charlie can't escape.
They set their plan in motion.
Amanda and Nick are able to slip into the house through the unlocked front door. Olivia and Elliot stealthily enter via the back door.
"Charles Williams?" Nick calls out, gun drawn.
Charlie appears, seemingly out of thin air.
"Hello, detectives," he says, sauntering towards them. "It's so nice of you to join us."
"Where are they?" Amanda asks sternly.
"Clear my name, and they're all yours," Charlie replies.
While Amanda and Nick distract Charlie with negotiations, Olivia and Elliot scour the house for Casey and Gabby.
Olivia hears a soft moaning sound. She listens closely, trying to identify the moans' source.
She presses her ear against a door. The moaning is loudest with her ear pressed to the door. She tells Elliot that she may have found them.
They try to open the door, but it's locked.
Elliot announces that he's going to bust the door open, and he tells whoever is behind the door to get away from it. He forcefully rams into the door, making it swing open.
He and Olivia find Casey with her hands tied behind her back. Three men stand around her. One is holding her down, another is groping at her breasts, and the third is raping by her.
The three men are so engrossed in assaulting Casey that Olivia and Elliot go unnoticed.
"NYPD!" Olivia yells, gun drawn. She then radios in, informing everyone that Casey has been located.
Two of the men stop and turn around. They put their arms up. The one on top of Casey continues to rape her.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! We were just having some fun with this little whore! No need to whip your gun out! Last time I checked, rough sex wasn't a crime!" the man raping Casey says with a smug laugh.
"It's a crime when it's nonconsensual," Olivia states.
"Get off of her, you twisted asshole!" Elliot commands, pulling the guy off of Casey and throwing him into a wall.
Officers from the Cambridge Police Department enter the room. They arrest the three men while Olivia and Elliot help Casey.
"Casey, you're safe now," Olivia says softly as Elliot wraps his NYPD jacket around Casey's thin frame, trying to preserve cover her exposed body.
"Where is Gabby?" Elliot asks.
Casey shrugs. She tells the detectives that she doesn't know. "Charlie brought me to those three men before I could see what he did with Gabby. The last time I saw her, she was sitting next to me, gagged and tied up," she says.
Cambridge police officers arrest Charlie and take him down to their precinct for questioning. Amanda and Nick search the house for Gabby. They split up. Amanda scours the second floor of the house, and Nick stays on the first floor.
Amanda comes across a darkened hallway. One of the two lightbulb a is burned out, and the other is dim and not far from also burning out. Amanda's hands hover over her gun, ready to draw it out at any moment as she ventures down the hall.
"Gabby?" she calls out.
No response.
She walks a few more steps down the hall and calls out Gabby's name again. There still isn't a response.
She nears the end of the hall, and the dim light reflecting off a doorknob catches her eye. She tries calling Gabby's name one more time.
"Gabby?" she calls out.
"A-A-Amanda?" she hears a familiar child's voice stutter.
Hi everyone! I am so sorry for not updating sooner! I got hit with a massive case of writer's block, and school got in the way of my writing. Now that it's summer time, I hope to write and update more frequently! I still have a sequel planned for this story - I'm just working on organizing my thoughts and ideas for it. I hope to get crackin' on it soon though! As always, I appreciate your support and love reading your reviews. Thanks for reading!