House had managed to make his way back to the Tangiers and was just rounding the corner to the ally where the TARDIS sat. He was on his way inside of the ship to yell at the Doctor for leaving him hanging with the police when he noticed movement near the back of the ally way.
Pausing, he squinted as he tried to see what was going on. He could just make out what looked like a man, hauling what appeared to be a rather heavy dead weight. The man's back was turned to House, so he was unable to see exactly what it was that he was dragging.
He was intrigued, of course. Moving against the wall, House began to move closer to try and get a better look. House watched as the man paused and lowered his weight to the ground as he reached over and lifted a manhole cover from the middle of the ally.
House paused, slightly behind a dumpster at the side of the ally a short distance from where his subject was. He still hadn't gotten a good view of what it was the man had been dragging but as he shifted the cover aside, House glimpsed what appeared to be the shape of another person lying on the ground beside the hole.
Suddenly, the man glanced up and looked around as if sensing he was being watched. House ducked behind the dumpster, not sure if he had removed himself from sight in time or not. As he stood still, listening for sounds of movement, he allowed himself to process what he had just seen. Besides the fact that it appeared that he was witnessing someone dumping a body, there had been something very strange about that man.
It was only an instant that he had seen the man's face, but he was certain that the face had not been altogether human. Sure, there are many medical conditions that could cause a blue tint to the skin and genetic mutations of all kinds could cause a face to look like that. But with the day that he had been having so far, he was pretty sure that this man was not from around here.
Silently, he continued to listen for any evidence that the alien had seen him. But it seemed that he was not noticed as he could hear the sound of the body once again being dragged. He carefully poked his head around the dumpster and watched as the alien lifted the body up and drop it into the recently uncovered hole. As he watched, House noticed that the body that the alien was throwing around was not as dead as he had originally had thought. There was definitely still resistance in the limbs of the man and the skin still had a healthy look to it.
House watched as the alien lowered himself into the hole after the man he had just thrown in. As he disappeared, House moved cautiously towards the hole that was still uncovered. Carefully he approached and glanced down over the edge. All that he could see was a bare, concrete bottom with no one in sight.
Suddenly, the alien appeared at the bottom of the hole. Before House could react, the alien had spotted him and brought some type gun to aim on him and fired. Instantly, he felt a pulse of electricity arc through his body as he felt himself crumple to the ground, losing consciousness.
"Ok, so while Grissom is getting a hold of those plans, we should break into teams for our search," the Doctor said as Grissom stepped out of the room, cell in hand. "I think four teams would be best. One for each general direction."
"Grissom and I will go together," Sara said.
Raising his hand, McKay said, "I'll go with them."
Sam rolled her eyes, knowing full well the reason McKay wanted to join them and she felt sorry for Sara. Stepping forward, Sam said, "I'll come too," figuring that she might be able to lend Sara a hand keeping him in line.
Chase decided to speak up, "Ah, I'm not sure if we really should be in on this," he said indicating himself and his colleagues. "We're not exactly qualified for this kind of thing."
"Chase, one of their people is missing, they need all the help they can get," Cameron admonished. "It's not like they can call the Las Vegas police in on this one. Whoever is already involved is it."
Chase sighed, "Fine, but we should go together."
"Ah, I'd like to go with Dr. Beckett, if that's alright," Foreman said.
"That's alright with me," Beckett said.
"That sounds fine, but you two need at least one military with you I think," Sheppard said.
"I can accompany them," Teal'c offered
"Good. Alright, I'll go with you two," Sheppard said, indicating Chase and Cameron.
"Rose and I will go together to form the last group," the Doctor said.
"What about Greg and Daniel?" Sara asked.
"I'd like to go with the Doctor, if he doesn't mind," Daniel said, stepping forward.
Rolling his eyes the Doctor said "Fine, but I'm not interested in playing ask the new alien twenty questions."
"Greg, why don't you join us?" Cameron said.
Greg shrugged as he joined their group. "As good as any I guess," he said.
"Alright, as soon as those plans show up, we can sit down and figure out who is taking what direction and the general plan of search," Sheppard said.
Rose decided to speak up, "Shouldn't we start searching for him right away? I mean if this Wraith thing could decided to suck the General's life at any minute, shouldn't we try to find him as quick as possible?"
"Rose has a point," Sam said.
"But just searching blindly in the dark isn't going to help all that much," McKay said. "We need to map out the areas that we are to cover and make sure that we don't miss anything."
"Jack might not have long enough for us to wait around," Daniel argued.
"Alright," the Doctor said. "Our group will start now. I think we'll take a… what do you think Rose, west or east?"
"West," she said promptly.
"Alright, west it is. We'll take a westerly route. That way, we'll at least be covering some area, while the rest can wait here for the plans."
"If you're just going to be going about it haphazard, the rest of us might as well too," Foreman said.
"Haphazard?!" the Doctor started. He was about to launch into how Foreman wouldn't know a scientific approach if it bite him when Rose stopped him.
"Doctor, they just aren't as used to your style as I am," she said softly to him. To the rest she said, "It's worked well for us in the past. We're really pretty good at the guessing thing."
Sheppard decided to just get things going. "Fine, you three go ahead. We'll wait for those plans and map out a search to the east, south, and north. Good luck." He nodded to the Doctor who nodded back and led his group out the back entrance.
Grissom returned as the others were leaving. "I have a city commissioner bringing the plans down right now. He should be here in about fifteen minutes," he announced. He looked around as asked, "Where did the Doctor, Rose, and Daniel go?"
"They just left to start right away," Sara said.
Grissom raised an eyebrow and was about to ask why when Rose suddenly came running back into the room.
"We have a new problem," she said as she held a cane out for all of them to see.
"Is that?" Chase started.
Cameron gasped and raised a hand to her mouth as she muttered, "Oh my God."
Walking outside, the Doctor glanced up and down the ally that he found himself in, looking for which way he should head. He noticed that his TARDIS was sitting there at the end of the ally. In between him and his ship, he saw the manhole cover moved aside lying in street.
As he moved towards it with Rose and Daniel close behind, he noticed that there was something lying next to the hole besides the cover. Picking up the pace, he made his way over to it and knelt down to examine this new object.
"What's up?" Daniel asked as he came to stand over the Doctor's shoulder. Rose came up to his other side and knelt along side.
Carefully the Doctor reached down and picked up the object of his investigation. It was a cane. Looking it over thoroughly, he finally announced.
"I've seen this cane before," he said almost to himself
"You have?" Daniel asked.
"Yes. This is Dr. House's cane," he announced as he stood up.
"What?!" Rose exclaimed.
The Doctor nodded.
"How did it get here?" Daniel asked.
"I would assume that he brought it here since he can't get very far without," the Doctor said.
"Well if that's the case, where is he now?" Daniel pressed.
"I would think that's obvious," the Doctor said as he handed the cane to Rose. "Looks like our new friend has gotten himself into trouble. You better go in and tell the other's that we think Dr. House has been taken as well."
"What are you going to do?" Rose asked.
"Dr. Jackson and I are going to go after them. You can join one of the other groups. The fact that he now has two people means he won't be as likely to hold out as long as possible before feeding again. One may buy more time for the other, but I would prefer to find them both alive."
Rose nodded, "Right. See you soon," she said and ran back into the hotel laundry room again.
The Doctor turned to Daniel, "Alright, just you and me."
"Seems so."
"After you," the Doctor said as he waved Daniel ahead to go down the hole.