"How was Samantha yesterday?" Jack asked Samantha's boss, Kelly Smith. Samantha worked at a small restaurant downtown where she was one of the chefs.

"She seemed fine yesterday, she was her usual self."

"So you haven't noticed anything that may be bothering her?" Danny questioned.

Kelly frowned. "Well last friday, she'd just started her shift and was in the kitchen..."

Flashback

Samantha stood at the stove, stirring something in a pan when Kelly came in.

"Hey Samantha. I'm doing mondays order list. Were you going to do the chicken or the fish special."

"We decided on the chicken." replied Samantha. There was something in her voice that made Kelly stop writing and go over to her.

"Sam, you okay?"

Samantha looked at her, and it as obvious that she had been crying.

"Yeah I'm fine." She smiled quickly. "Just been chopping some onions."

Kelly glanced around, not seeing any onions. But she knew Samantha well enough to not try and push the subject.

End

"We've gotten to be quite good friends but Samantha's one of those people who doesn't tend to share their feelings. She'll usually keep things to herself, so I didn't push it. But she was distant for the rest of that day."

Jack nodded, noting some things down on his notepad.

"Have you met her husband?" asked Danny.

Kelly's face darkened for a moment. "Yeah I have."

"You don't like him?" asked Jack curiously.

"I don't know him that well...but I think he hits her."

"What makes you say that?" asked Danny raising an eyebrow at Jack.

"Well a couple of times she's had these bruises on her arms, she said she'd tripped coming downstairs but I don't believe her- she's not a clumsy person. And not too long ago she had a bruise on her face, she made some feeble excuse about walking into a lamp post. I'm sure she's had more, just not so noticeable."

"Right." said Danny. "Do you think that he could have anything to do with her disappearance?"

Kelly's face paled and her eyes widened. "God, I didn't even think of that. I'm not sure...maybe? I don't know."

"Okay." said Jack. "Thanks for your help. Oh one more thing, if she was running do you have any idea where she might go. A friends perhaps?"

"She's friends with the others that work here, but I don't think she knows them well enough to go to one of them but I'm not sure." Kelly replied.

"Thanks again." said Jack.

"You will find her right?." pleaded Kelly.

"We will do our best." said Danny smiling. "Thanks for your time."

20 hours missing.

"So what did you find from the husband?" Jack asked Vivian and Danny once they were back at the office. They were all seated around the conference table, going over what they had found.

Vivian and Martin exchanged glances, "He doesn't seem to be the greatest guy." began Vivian carefully. "He had been drinking quite a lot, judging from the smell on him."

"He didn't seem to care that much that she was missing." added Martin.

"Do you think he was capable of being abusive?" asked Danny.

Vivian sighed. "I think so. Why?"

"Her boss mentioned that Sam sometimes showed up to work with bruises on her arms or face."

Vivian smiled sadly, "It doesn't seem like she has a very happy life."

Danny nodded in agreement. "You find anything else?" he asked after a pause.

"We found out she drives to work, so we should run the DMV, see if we can find the car." said Vivian.

"I'm on it." said Martin.

"David said she doesn't talk to her mom, but he's not sure about her sister. So if she was running she might go there."

"You got the sister's number?" asked Jack.

Vivian nodding, pulling the piece of paper out of her notepad. "You want me to call her sister?"

Jack nodded. "Yeah, see if she's heard from Samantha recently or seen her."

"I got the DMV." said Martin, looking up from his computer screen. "It's a Ford focus. Errr nothing recent has come up on it. Got the registration number, so guess we just have to see if we can find it."

"Danny, can you look through her phone records over the past few weeks?" asked Jack.

"Sure." replied Danny, glancing at her picture on the white board before heading over to his desk.

Martin stood up and walked over to the white board, writing down the other things they had found out. The longing and sadness in her eyes haunted him, and he wanted more than anything to find her and make the longing go away. There was such a difference to the other picture, he sighed.

"I think I got something." called Danny excitedly.

"What?" asked Jack, him and Martin going over to Danny's desk.

"Well you know Kelly said that she was acting really distant last Friday? That morning she had spent about 10 minutes on the phone to a doctors surgery. I ran the address, and it's just a few blocks from where she lives."

"Good. Danny, can you and Martin head over there."

"Okay." said Danny.