Part 2
Horatio waited patiently as John Hagen talked to Mr. And Mrs. Summers in the living room, through the glass door he could hear their muffled cries and sobs. He waited until Hagen gave him a sign before making his entrance and joined them in the living room.
"Mr. And Mrs. Summers I'm very sorry about this. I promise you we're doing everything we can to find your children and bring them home safely." He said quietly "Now we're going to need your full cooperation, we need to get as much information as we can."
"Shouldn't the FBI be involved here?" the father asked, his voice shaking slightly
"they're going to be here soon" Horatio assured them "but the first 48 hours are critical and we can't waist any time. We need to check your house and your garden - the kidnappers might have been watching you for a while"
"You think they were here? At our house?" the mother asked in terror
"It's a possibility" Horatio reached out and placed a hand over hers in comfort "the important thing for us right now is to stay calm because I need you to think really hard. I need you to think if you've seen anything unusual the last couple of weeks - anything! A guy looking at you funny in the supermarket, a stranger talking to your kids - anything out of the ordinary."
*
"What do you mean not about ransom? Where are we going?" Calleigh asked as the two of them got into the hummer and started leaving the park.
"Like I said, if it was about ransom he wouldn't have picked the park to grab the kids"
"Ok. So what do you think this is about?"
"I think this is random and I think it has nothing to do with money" Jamie kept her eyes on the road she drove them down the road and towards the freeway.
"OK, I'm listening"
"There's another possibility for any child kidnapping it's not a pretty one but it's there. Let's assume for a minute this guy didn't have the opportunity to grab the kids somewhere else simply because he didn't know these kids. He wasn't looking for them - he was waiting in the park for the right kids to show up and then made his move!"
"So that's why Speed is out there right now looking for a nest!" realization hit Calleigh "but if he doesn't know these kids what does he want with them? And where are we going?"
"We're going to the county jail - it's time to do some research!"
*
"What are we looking for again Speedle?" Hagen asked as the two of them along with another uniformed officer were going through the bushes that surrounded the crime scene
"Jamie said to look for a nest"
"A nest?" Hagen asked, confused.
"Somewhere our kidnapper might have been sitting and waiting for these kids." he trailed off when he leaned in to examine the ground closely "Here we go."
"You got something?" Hagen asked as he joined him
Speed pulled out a pair of tweezers and picked up a piece of fabric from between the branches of the bush, he was tagging it into an evidence bag when he noticed a hair in on one of the leafs and picked that up too.
"See that shape in the ground?" Speed explained as he stepped back to take a picture "that means he was lying here - he was waiting here for a while before the kids showed up. We have our nest!
He turned back and faced the crime scene - from this location he had a perfect view of the crime scene. And a perfect view of where the kids must have been playing next to their nanny.
"Damn" Speed exclaimed and shook his head
"What?" Hagen asked as he noticed a small smile appear on Speed's smile
"Nothing I just hate it when she's right"
*
"Ok Alexx tell me what we've got!" Horatio's voice came through the microphone and Alexx looked up to see him standing next to the screens at the observation deck
"Well cause of death was a single blow to the head, shattered her skull and killed her almost instantly but not immediate" Alexx replied. "it seems like she put up a fight, I found some skin under her fingernails, it's on the way to the DNA lab"
"Alexx do me a favor zoom in on her hands, the palms of her hands please" He waited until the image became clear and looked at it closely "Now what are those?"
"Seems like scratches" Alexx frowned "Maybe our kidnapper fought back?"
"Those aren't from the attacker, she got those when she was crawling on the ground"
"Well that would explain the dirt in the wounds" Alexx nodded "where was she crawling?"
"She was trying to get to somewhere, or to someone!"
*
"Ok, Call, listen." Jamie turned to Calleigh hesitantly as soon as she stopped the hummer in the county jail parking lot "I need you not to tell Horatio about this."
"Ok Jamie, you're going to have to explain to me what's going on here!" Calleigh said sternly, giving her partner a look that demanded and explanation - and demanded one right that minute.
"Ok" Jamie sighed "the second option when dealing with a child kidnapping is sexual predators. But there's more then that, usually when the kidnapping is organized it's about the black market - selling kids for child pornography or pedophiles who want a child sex slave."
"And you think this is what's happening here?"
"In order to know that I need to meet a guy that's in here" She pointed to the jail "and that is the part you can't tell Horatio"
"Why not?" Calleigh frowned
"Because Horatio and I put this guy in there in the first place. He was on the buying end of the deal - a kid went missing then turned up dead 4 month later. Billy Sacker bought him in the black market - but he wasn't satisfied with the product so he killed him a couple of month after he got him. If Horatio found out this is where I was getting my information - he would go through the roof"
"If you're the one who put him away - then why would he talk to you?"
Jamie looked away from Calleigh and out of the window - not wanting to meet the other woman's eyes when she made her next admission "Cause I wasn't exactly the one who put him away. Horatio was. I was green and pretty arrogant and I thought the evil men come with evil faces. I believed him Sacker and almost allowed him to walk - Horatio was the one who went after him from the start." She turned back to face Calleigh "Sacker always had this crazy notion that because I believed him at the beginning it meant that I understood him - that I was somehow agreeing with what he was doing."
"And you think this guy can help us?" Calleigh sounded skeptical
"These sellers and dealers are a very close knit group. If this was done by someone in the business - Sacker is going to know who it was!"
Calleigh took a moment to consider her options, eyeing Jamie closely. Finally she smiled and nodded "Ok my lips are sealed - let's go do our research"
Horatio waited patiently as John Hagen talked to Mr. And Mrs. Summers in the living room, through the glass door he could hear their muffled cries and sobs. He waited until Hagen gave him a sign before making his entrance and joined them in the living room.
"Mr. And Mrs. Summers I'm very sorry about this. I promise you we're doing everything we can to find your children and bring them home safely." He said quietly "Now we're going to need your full cooperation, we need to get as much information as we can."
"Shouldn't the FBI be involved here?" the father asked, his voice shaking slightly
"they're going to be here soon" Horatio assured them "but the first 48 hours are critical and we can't waist any time. We need to check your house and your garden - the kidnappers might have been watching you for a while"
"You think they were here? At our house?" the mother asked in terror
"It's a possibility" Horatio reached out and placed a hand over hers in comfort "the important thing for us right now is to stay calm because I need you to think really hard. I need you to think if you've seen anything unusual the last couple of weeks - anything! A guy looking at you funny in the supermarket, a stranger talking to your kids - anything out of the ordinary."
*
"What do you mean not about ransom? Where are we going?" Calleigh asked as the two of them got into the hummer and started leaving the park.
"Like I said, if it was about ransom he wouldn't have picked the park to grab the kids"
"Ok. So what do you think this is about?"
"I think this is random and I think it has nothing to do with money" Jamie kept her eyes on the road she drove them down the road and towards the freeway.
"OK, I'm listening"
"There's another possibility for any child kidnapping it's not a pretty one but it's there. Let's assume for a minute this guy didn't have the opportunity to grab the kids somewhere else simply because he didn't know these kids. He wasn't looking for them - he was waiting in the park for the right kids to show up and then made his move!"
"So that's why Speed is out there right now looking for a nest!" realization hit Calleigh "but if he doesn't know these kids what does he want with them? And where are we going?"
"We're going to the county jail - it's time to do some research!"
*
"What are we looking for again Speedle?" Hagen asked as the two of them along with another uniformed officer were going through the bushes that surrounded the crime scene
"Jamie said to look for a nest"
"A nest?" Hagen asked, confused.
"Somewhere our kidnapper might have been sitting and waiting for these kids." he trailed off when he leaned in to examine the ground closely "Here we go."
"You got something?" Hagen asked as he joined him
Speed pulled out a pair of tweezers and picked up a piece of fabric from between the branches of the bush, he was tagging it into an evidence bag when he noticed a hair in on one of the leafs and picked that up too.
"See that shape in the ground?" Speed explained as he stepped back to take a picture "that means he was lying here - he was waiting here for a while before the kids showed up. We have our nest!
He turned back and faced the crime scene - from this location he had a perfect view of the crime scene. And a perfect view of where the kids must have been playing next to their nanny.
"Damn" Speed exclaimed and shook his head
"What?" Hagen asked as he noticed a small smile appear on Speed's smile
"Nothing I just hate it when she's right"
*
"Ok Alexx tell me what we've got!" Horatio's voice came through the microphone and Alexx looked up to see him standing next to the screens at the observation deck
"Well cause of death was a single blow to the head, shattered her skull and killed her almost instantly but not immediate" Alexx replied. "it seems like she put up a fight, I found some skin under her fingernails, it's on the way to the DNA lab"
"Alexx do me a favor zoom in on her hands, the palms of her hands please" He waited until the image became clear and looked at it closely "Now what are those?"
"Seems like scratches" Alexx frowned "Maybe our kidnapper fought back?"
"Those aren't from the attacker, she got those when she was crawling on the ground"
"Well that would explain the dirt in the wounds" Alexx nodded "where was she crawling?"
"She was trying to get to somewhere, or to someone!"
*
"Ok, Call, listen." Jamie turned to Calleigh hesitantly as soon as she stopped the hummer in the county jail parking lot "I need you not to tell Horatio about this."
"Ok Jamie, you're going to have to explain to me what's going on here!" Calleigh said sternly, giving her partner a look that demanded and explanation - and demanded one right that minute.
"Ok" Jamie sighed "the second option when dealing with a child kidnapping is sexual predators. But there's more then that, usually when the kidnapping is organized it's about the black market - selling kids for child pornography or pedophiles who want a child sex slave."
"And you think this is what's happening here?"
"In order to know that I need to meet a guy that's in here" She pointed to the jail "and that is the part you can't tell Horatio"
"Why not?" Calleigh frowned
"Because Horatio and I put this guy in there in the first place. He was on the buying end of the deal - a kid went missing then turned up dead 4 month later. Billy Sacker bought him in the black market - but he wasn't satisfied with the product so he killed him a couple of month after he got him. If Horatio found out this is where I was getting my information - he would go through the roof"
"If you're the one who put him away - then why would he talk to you?"
Jamie looked away from Calleigh and out of the window - not wanting to meet the other woman's eyes when she made her next admission "Cause I wasn't exactly the one who put him away. Horatio was. I was green and pretty arrogant and I thought the evil men come with evil faces. I believed him Sacker and almost allowed him to walk - Horatio was the one who went after him from the start." She turned back to face Calleigh "Sacker always had this crazy notion that because I believed him at the beginning it meant that I understood him - that I was somehow agreeing with what he was doing."
"And you think this guy can help us?" Calleigh sounded skeptical
"These sellers and dealers are a very close knit group. If this was done by someone in the business - Sacker is going to know who it was!"
Calleigh took a moment to consider her options, eyeing Jamie closely. Finally she smiled and nodded "Ok my lips are sealed - let's go do our research"