Ryo sat up on the roof assembling his sniper gear. He was edgy as he pulled out his fingerless gloves. He was about to pull on the left one when he stopped. There staring back at him was his engagement ring. He sighed as he removed it from his ring finger and stared at it. He really hoped Dee was going to be okay. As a cop being there for you partner is hard, especially when you have more than one human life at stake. But it's even harder when your partner is your fiancée, and your victim is a young girl and her mother the stakes are even higher. Giving his ring a quick kiss he placed it in his pants pocket and took his sniper out of its case. Staring back at the apartment where he would momentarily be aiming his sniper, he quietly prayed for everyone to be alright.

Dee stood by the door, sweating with anxiousness, his gun ready. Luke was really pushing it. He was loud, crude, and mean.

"Dad…stop…it hurts!" Hannah yelled.

"Luke let her go!" Mary begged.

"And have her leave me for these teenaged brats who won't know what to do with her, I don't think so." Luke replied. He was groping his daughter in front of her mother as he held the gun to his daughter's head. Dee of course couldn't make out much in the peep hole of the door, but he could make out enough. Luke was pushing his buttons and he didn't know how much longer he could hold out.

Meanwhile the NYPD had surrounded the building undetected as Ryo had told them so when he dispatched the precinct. Rose and Smith emerged from an unmarked car as Drake, Ted and Marty and a few rookies surrounded the building. JJ, however, raced to the adjacent apartment building to meet with Ryo where he would also be in position as sniper for back up.

JJ of course was a wreck knowing that the love of his life was in yet another dangerous situation and Ryo of course was being all calm and collected, trying to be the hero once again. Some fiancée. If JJ was in charge he would have stayed with Dee. He raced up to the roof where Ryo was already situated, armed and ready.

"Perp's on the eighth floor, middle window." Ryo said not moving his eye from the magnifier on his sniper.

JJ said nothing as he got on his gear.

Back on the ground Smith and Rose were discussing with the swat team. But their ideas were coming up short. Ryo told them that Luke said if he heard a siren he would kill the daughter and mother. He would surely do the same if he heard the swat team come in. Even the precinct psychologist said best to wait it out because Luke was dangerous. Women had fought him off and got shot; he was definitely true to his word. The best thing to do would be have Ryo and JJ wait until the target was in sight and take him out.

But that was proving difficult. Luke kept having Mary move around and with Hannah tightly in his grasp made it nearly impossible to get a clear shot.

"Now." Luke said. "We are all going to play a little game. It's called…suffocation. Mary I want you to turn on the oven and open the door. And then we are all going to go into the bedroom and have some more fun and Hannah I can show you some new tricks I learned. They will be so much fun."

"Why are you doing this dad!?" Hannah sobbed.

"Luke…if I turn on the oven the whole place will be filled with gas. You'll die too." Mary said.

"That's the plan." Luke said with an ugly yellow toothed grin. "We are all gonna die together. Never separated again, even in death. I will have my Hannah until our very last breath and then we all shall be together in Heaven where we all belong."

He aimed the gun at Hannah. "Now turn the oven on or I will blow her head off."

Mary did as she was told. Then Luke backed up pointing the gun at Mary and led the two into the bedroom. Ryo and JJ followed Luke's path with their snipers. There he led Mary to a nearby chair and pointed the gun at Hannah.

"Tie up your mother." He said throwing her some rope he fished out of his deep coat pocket. "And it better be good and tight and I will check. No tricks my dear. She is gonna watch."

"Dammit." Ryo muttered as he watched Hannah sobbingly tie up her mother and Luke throw a gag in her mouth. "Everytime I get a shot at him he puts a hostage in my way!"

Dee heard the voices get smaller. This was his chance. But he knew he had to go in inconspicuously.

Dee gently and quietly turned the knob and saw that it was held by a chain. No sign of forced entry.

"Someone must have forgotten to lock the door." Dee thought as he used the butt of his gun to break the chain. An old trick he learned from a buddy at the academy.

He opened the door quietly and stepped inside and was greeted by the smell of gas. He choked and threw his handkerchief over mouth coughing as quietly as he could and ran to a nearby window to get the smell out. Opening it up he took a huge gulp of air to clear his already fuzzy head.

"LET ME GO!!!!!" A yell interrupted.

Dee turned and ran towards the bedroom where Luke had locked the door and Hannah could be heard screaming.

"Not yet baby. Ah my little girl. I have waited for this for so long. You feel so good, I am going to enjoy every second. Don't worry, once the gas gets to you it will feel so amazing."

"I don't think so!" Dee yelled and kicked open the bedroom door. There he was met with a sight that disgusted him. Hannah's mother already feeling the affects of the gas slumping over in her restraints. Hannah crying on her mother's bed with Luke on top of her and hands inside her shirt.

"LUKE CALLAHAN. NYPD. GET OFF THE GIRL AND STEP AWAY FROM THE BED!" Dee yelled aiming his gun directly at Luke and flashing his badge.

Luke was stunned and already dizzy.

"COPS!?" He yelled. "HOW THE HELL DID YOU KNOW!? I…wait a minute…you're that cop who chased me when I almost bagged that girl last night?"

"Got it asswipe. Now do as I say and I won't pierce your dirty brain."

Luke just laughed as he sat on top of Hannah who stared at Dee pleadingly her eyes starting to glaze from the gas.

"Not on your life pig." Luke said as he took his gun and aimed it down towards Hannah. "Want me to spare her life…drop your weapon."

"Come on man, don't do this!" Dee said nervously as the gas began to affect him again. "I know you're a good guy, you don't wanna hurt your wife and child."

"Hurt them!" Luke snorted. "All I did was ever love them! Well Hannah anyway. She always paraded around in her cute little dresses and outfits. Always hugging and kissing me. Little temptress that she was! How could I not be in love with her!?"

"That's right Luke." Dee said trying to play psychologist. "You don't wanna hurt Hannah. You love her. You're too good a guy to let that happen. So they left because they didn't see eye to eye with you. Man, you can't live in the past, they weren't good enough for you. Gotta move on to bigger and better things."

Luke stared at Dee crazily as Dee tried to hold his ground.

On the roof Ryo watched the scene in fear. They were about to fire on Luke when Dee had charged in.

"DAMMIT DEE!" He growled when he saw Dee charge into the bedroom. "I told you to wait."

"Senpai's in my shot!" JJ whispered. "He's blocking the window."

"What is he doing!?" Ryo wondered. "He knew that we were going to be snipers up here, he knew I would get the shot!"

JJ clenched his teeth.

"Maybe he knows something we don't. Dee wouldn't charge unless there was an absolute reason."

Ryo watched unknowing that Dee was very close to losing consciousness.