The three men raced to the Sands, the siren blaring the entire time. The Sands' desk clerk turned out to be a friend of Luis and Danny from high school and he gladly told them which room Mr. Connell was in. Luis knocked on the door repeatedly, shouting "Police!" The door didn't open, but Danny could hear faint crying in the hotel room.
"That's Elizabeth!" He slammed into the door with his side. Luis pulled him away.
"Are you sure?" Luis asked.
"Of course! That's my baby!" Danny turned to hit the door again.
"Danny, we can't break in. We don't have a warrant."
"I don't care."
"Okay." Ed pulled Danny away from the door. "Luis, go get the desk clerk, what's his name...Billy, and have him let us in."
Luis took off.
"Ed, I've got to get in there. That's my little girl and she needs me."
"Danny, you can't just bust in there. We gotta do this legal." Ed started knocking on the door again as Danny paced in the hallway. Soon Luis and Billy showed up.
"Hurry up Billy, open the door!" Danny begged anxiously. The door opened and the four men hurried inside. Danny saw Elizabeth lying on the bed, bawling. He rushed to her side, gathering her into his arms. "It's okay, sweetie. It's Daddy, Daddy's got you."
Ed quietly got his attention. "Danny."
Danny turned to see Mary's father, standing in the corner of the room, pointing a pistol at him.
"Mr. Connell..." Danny began.
"Shut up, Danny!" He replied. "You and Mary thought you could ruin my life, my marriage? Didn't you realize there would be consequences? I wanted to fix things last year, but you refused and you told...my wife."
"And you couldn't do something to one of us, you had to steal our child?!"
"I lost mine!" He yelled.
"That was your own fault!" Danny yelled back, scaring Elizabeth who started crying again. Danny tried to shush her as Mr. Connell stepped forward. This gave Ed and Luis the moment they needed. Ed tackled him at the knees as Luis wrestled the gun away, and then handcuffed Mr. Connell, reading him his rights on the way out the door. Ed stood and brushed himself off.
"How she doing?"
"Fine. She's probably starving."
"Well, let's get her back to Mary." Ed threw his arm around Danny's shoulders.
"You know Ed, Elizabeth only has my dad as a grandfather."
"Yeah."
"We'd like you to think of yourself as her grandfather too."
Ed laughed. "I already do."
Danny looked at him in surprise, and then joined him in laughing.
