After what felt like hours Luis was finally able to move his fingers free of the rope. He glanced a Jillian and noticed her body was starting to shiver from their lack of clothing and the damp floor they rested on for their time in this place. He quickly freed them from the rest of their bonds then stood up helping Jillian up also. When Luis walked towards the door and tried twisting the handle. Surprisingly the door was unlocked and Luis carefully opened slowly just a crack. Light from over lamp greeted his eyes as he peered out the opening.
Giving his eyes a moment to adjust from the darkness of their cell to the lighted room he looked down at the floor and noticed a wire running from the edge of the door jam to just outside his view. He then took a mental inventory of the room outside of their cell. Army and guns posters hung on the tin shack walls. There was a small kitchen table with a few beer cans and an opened bag of potato chips laying in the center. Off to the far wall it looked like somebody had built a work bench out from some used pieces of boards. On the workbench there was a shotgun shell reloader and a bunch of wires and what looked like a blue print to something.
Jillian brushed up against him and whispered "Do you see anybody?" Luis backed away from the crack of the door before he whispered back "I don't see nor hear anyone but there's a wire running from the hinge side of the door that I can't see. It might be a booby trap." Jillian stepped back with a gasp "Well what is your plan?" She stated back at him. Luis just stood there for a moment lost in thought. "First I want to see how that wire is attached to frame. Then I'll see if we can bypass it somehow and get out of here, sound good?" Luis spoke. "Well... Get to it!" Jillian said with a smile.
Mary manned the phones calling the Vegas P.D. and trying to inquire about the police officers that helped with the prisoners. But so far is was turning out to be a fruitless battle. Either the person on the other line had no clue who they were or transferred her to another department looking for somebody that thought they might know. Finally somebody picked up the latest transferred line and said "Ms. Connell? Sorry about the run around they officers in question are walking the strip and haven't returned any pages or radio calls. We sent a car to look for them." Mary sighed and asked the person to give make sure they phone her back as soon as they had any news. As she hung up the phone she looked up towards Ed's office and hoped he was having better luck than her.
The elevator dinged and Danny smiled at a few guests as he made his way off the elevator and towards the gaming floor. Nodding slightly at a few girls that looked at him and giggled lightly when he then smiled softly at them. When he approached the pits he heard the volume of the cheers increase and the unmistakable voices of the dreaded Reisneck brothers.
"Hey Sam! Why don't you blow on these dice?" Chris Reisneck asked Sam she leaned over and blew lightly on the dice in Chris's hand "Come on baby!" Dave exclaimed as Chris hurled the dice on the table. Sam looked up from the action that was happening on the table and right into the big beautiful eyes of one Danny McCoy.
Danny could see Sam was startled for just a moment but then quickly recovered by giving him one of those smiles of hers that could keep him up at night. Yet just as quickly as the moment happen it disappeared when Dave noticed Danny standing by the table. "Dude! It's you! You gotta check out this action we're getting here." Dave slurred out. Coming around the table Dave slapped his arm around him and guided Danny and himself back to the other where Chris was grinning like a goofball.
"Hey man chase anybody else down yet?" Chris asked as he stuck out his hand to shake Danny's. "Actually I'm chasing somebody right now." Danny replied and looked directly at Sam. Her reaction was priceless, it looked as though she almost was embarrassed at what Danny said and while intently looking at her. "Well man are you going to stick around and join our little party?" Dave asked. Danny made himself look away from Sam and back in the direction of the Reisneck brothers "Yeah, I'll be sticking around here for a bit. That's cool right?" He half asked them. "YEAH!" They both exclaimed and turned back around towards the table. When the brothers started rolling the dice again it gave Danny the chance to talk with Sam about what all was happening tonight. "Sam, Mary said something about you getting knock over a few more times this evening. Is the crowd just getting rowdy?" Danny asked.
"Hmmm... No, it's not that rowdy." Sam replied back. Then almost an after thought she remembered the weird note she got and told Danny "Expect for this note somebody put in my pocket it's be rather normal after you left." Sam reached in her pocket and showed Danny the note. She studied Danny's face as he read the note and his reaction alarmed her.
"What's wrong?" she asked. "Uhh... Jillian and we believe Luis have been kidnapped or killed by this group of military weenies. I got a message about them wanting to get to me after they went through some list. And not to freak you out, but I think you're on it." Danny said to her as calmly and quietly as he could.
Sam's mouth opened and shut before she regained her composer. "What time did you notice the note?" Danny ask. "Hmmm... only about an hour or so ago. I didn't think much of at the time." Sam answered back. Danny whipped out his cell and call up to Ed. "Hey, Ed. Sam's got a note cue up the tape for about an hour ago and see if we can find who did it. Yeah, I'm going to stay here by Sam just in case they try again." And with that Danny hung up his phone. "Looks I'm all yours for the time being." He said with a boyish smile.
Ed was just hanging up the phone after speaking with Danny as Mary walked up to him. "The police have sent out a search for the two officers that were here earlier tonight with the guys in question." Mary stated. "What, the police can't even find their own people?" Ed replied sarcastically "Well, they haven't checked in and they couldn't reach the officers by radio. So I think something might have happened to them." Mary answered.
Ed just gave her a look and continued. "Well through some of my own digging I have found what is believed to be these guys base of operations. You and I are going to head out there now." At Mary's shocked looked Ed asked "What?" Mary still paused slightly but then answered "Huh, I'm flattered, I think, But I'm not much for undercover spy missions. Yet, I don't want you to go out there alone so let me call Nessa. I'm sure she'd be better out there then having me tag along."
Ed gave her his patented hard stare but answered "Yeah, Ok. I'm heading out now I'll swing by Nessa's place and pick her up. You give her a call and tell her to be ready, something along the lines of when we tested the vault a few months back." Ed got up and started walking not even waiting for her reply just counted on Mary to follow his orders and do it.
Mary dialed up Nessa's number and waited as the phone rang and rang. Finally a mumbled voice answered with a drowse "Hello?" Mary waited just a moment longer to make sure Nessa was actually awake before starting to explain the nights events.
"Remember those guys that knocked over the craps table with the Reisneck brothers? Well turns out they escaped and now seem to be hunting down the people who caught them. So far Luis and Jillian are gone and we can't get a hold of the two cops that escorted them either. Anyway Ed did some checking and found out where this group of people hangs out. He's on his way to go check it out. I asked him to bring you as back up so he's on his way over to your place right now. Also he asked me to tell you to have the stuff you guys had the time you two broke into the vault for a security check." Mary finished up. If Nessa was asleep she was fully awake now.
"Mary how are you holding up?" Nessa asked. Mary smiled even when Nessa gets woken up in the middle of the night and thrown into a crap shoot she still thinks of others first. "I'm doing OK. I am going to keep following up on leads from here and keep my mind off of what could be happen to Luis. Gotta go now just be ready for when Ed stops by." Mary said and then lightly hung up the phone to get back to work.
As the Reisneck brothers played on Sam found herself looking at Danny more and more. He stood just behind the brothers playing somewhat blending in with the background of people but his eyes ever scanning the casino crowd for any signs of trouble. She'd wait till his eyes scan around and when he got close to looking at her she'd make a point to look at the brothers so Danny wouldn't catch on at her looks.
Danny stood straight as an arrow as he scanned the crowd. He called up to the watchtower a couple times to have a few guests checked out but they all came back fine. He also wish he was able to be at two places at once. Part of him wished he went with Ed to find these guys. Take a more proactive approach to this whole situation, also he'd hopefully be able to keep Ed from going off the deep end if anything has happen to Jillian. Yet he was glad to learn from Mary that he would take Nessa along. Other then himself he figured she'd be the only one that Ed would keep a cool head around if things did go south.
Then again he was glad to be here keeping a watchful eye on Samantha. He smiled to himself if she knew he thought of her a Samantha instead of just Sam, buddy, pal, co-worker he didn't know what she'd do to him. Part of him wished that she just grab him and kiss him never letting him go. However another side of him thought she'd use and abuse him as a casual fling like so many others he saw her with before. So that made him choose his current option, long from afar and make sure just to always be there for her when she needed him. And right now, he knew she needed him even if she was unaware herself.
Sam looked back from the game once again to look at Danny. She saw him smile to himself about something and wish she knew what he was thinking about she hoped it had to do with her cause he looked damn sexy when he smiled.
"Sam, why don't you just ask him?" Dave Reisneck asked interrupting her thoughts. Startled Sam looked wide-eyed at Dave "What? Who? Huh?" Sam replied. "I see how you're looking at him. It's like when you see that perfect throw and you bet it big. Knowing the chance is there to take the house." Dave told her.
Sam smiled sweetly at him and recovered swiftly "Well I think you better stick with craps cause with logic like that you'd never make it at poker." Sam gave him a playful poke in the ribs and winked at him. "Actually he's beaten the world poker champion at cards." Chris piped in. Dave and Chris both smiled at Sam's forlorn look. "Suit yourself, but to win big you have to lay down the gamble to lose big." Dave said as he turned back to the craps table leaving Sam to think about what he said.