"Laurie!"

Nothing.

"What is it, Rick?" A.J. was frowning at him.

"Call Rudy, something wrong. I heard Laurie cry my name, then….nothing. " Rick told both men, and at once Oscar dialed Phoenix General as A.J. hit his transmitter.

"Rudy, it's A.J.. Is Laurie with you? Oh, God …no!"

Rick stared as his brother wrote down a few things, then told Rudy, "We'll wait for you here, Rudy. Now don't try to take them yourself. Just see where they go then come back."

Hitting the receive button on his watch, A.J. looked up, his face visibly upset.

"Laurie was waiting outside for Rudy to bring the car around to the emergency room entrance. Apparently a military truck stopped in front of the entrance, and one of the security guards says a man got out to talk to Laurie. The guard looked away for a second, then looked back to see another man catch her as if she had fainted, then load her into the truck and take off. By the time he got there, the truck had rounded the building, Rudy's gone after them."

"No, not Laurie." Rick grabbed his jacket and weapon as Oscar shook his head.

"My fault, Rick. I should never have left my girl unprotected like that." he spoke despairingly .

Rick took a deep breath. "Dad, it's not your fault. I blame that piece of crap Anderson for getting involved in the first place. Where's Rudy now?"

"He's following the truck, wait a minute, I hear something." A.J. listened as Rick put his transmitter to the same frequency. Over the speaker Rudy quietly said, "Guys, I'm at the back of the base, I got stopped to show my id, but I think I've found them…" Suddenly a voice was in the background. "Dr. Wells, hands on the wheel or Mrs. Simon is dead." The sound of a car opening and closing sounded, then another voice sounded.

"In here, Dr.. No use letting you go leading anyone here."

Oscar shook his head. "Rick, that's not Wright, must be one of his accomplices." Just then a crackling noise sounded, then the transmitter was dead.

"Damn it!" Rick was livid. A.J. put a hand on his shoulder. "We have to find them right away, when he first called, Rudy said Laurie's memory could return at any time, and so would her voice. He doesn't want her frightened into blocking it out entirely by Wright" A.J. added.

"Dad, what about her transmitter?" Rick suddenly remembered the Secretary had authorized theirs to be turned on in the emergency.

"Good thinking, son." Oscar and Rick both put theirs on , then A.J. put his on receive status.

Within minutes the transmitters showed Laurie was within one mile of their location, but try as they may, the three men could not triangulate the exact location.

Astheyworked, Laurie came to, darkness all around her.

Confused, she tried to move, only to find that she was in a chair, her wrists tied to the arms and her ankles to the legs of the chair.

As her head started to clear, bits and pieces of what happened returned to her memory.

"Mrs. Simon?" The soldier in fatigues startled her.

"I have a message from Sergeant Simon." Something about his face, his eyes, familiar.

"What is it, Sergeant?" she mouthed, trying to indicate she could not speak.

Suddenly something was over her face, a cloth…...

Laurie struggled, but found herself being lifted up, and put into the truck bed, then…nothing.

"Laurie, honey?"

She turned, squinting in the light, then saw Rudy, a cut over his eye, also tied to a chair.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left you alone like that, are you all right?" he asked, and she took a deep breath.

"I'm okay. You don't have anything to be sorry about, Rudy, you didn't know we were a target." Laurie mouthed emphatically. "They hurt you."

The older man managed a smile, "You should see the other guy…" then stiffened.

"I'm glad to see you're awake, Mrs. Simon." A man stepped out of the shadows.

Laurie looked into the eyes of a long ago enemy, dark hair framing light colored eyes. A light was shining on her, and she realized she was under a spotlight.

"Why?" she tried to say, only for no sound to come out.

"Why,. Mrs. Simon? Delayed justice for one, and pure greed for the other. You see, ma'am," the man leaned forward, "I owe Oscar Goldmanfor all thepain, all the trouble he brought us, and for the death of my grandfather.

Oh yes," he smiled evilly, "I'm his grandson. Wade Wright, get it? And you and Dr. Wells will be my revenge, and my ticket to a fat check."

"Now, " his voice hardened. "We can make this very simple. I want to know where Oscar Goldman is right now. I happen to know your handy-dandy transmitter can locate him." He indicated the watch still on her wrist, which he roughly grabbed and tore off her arm. "

Rudy yelled "Don't touch her!" as he saw how upset Laurie was. "So near to your protectors, and yet so far away." He taunted her, holding up her watch. "Rick!" she "called", frantically, seeing her husband's gift taken.

"Now, here's where I perform a bit of, what…?" Wright glowered as he opened the works of her watch.

"This isn't like Goldman's transmitter, it's….." he glanced up at her, then saw the confusion in her eyes.

"You honestly don't know, your watch is only a transmitter to transmitter, not like, oh never mind." Wright threw her transmitter on the ground then stomped on it, to Laurie's horror.

"No!" she tried to yell, only a gasp coming from her mouth.

"Don't like that, huh, Mrs. Simon? Well, I'll be right back with something else guaranteed to make you talk." Her captor sneered. "If not, we'll try the good doctor here."

As he disappeared into the darkness, she heard Rick' s 'voice" responding to her.

"Laurie, are you all right? Where are you, darlin'?"

Tears filled her eyes as she "called" back, "I'm all right, just scared, Rick. I don't know where I am, this guy, Wade Wright he calls himself, he drugged me and I just woke up. Rudy's here too, they took him when he followed me."

"We're going to find you two, angel. It's okay. Just keep talking to me. I love you, Laurie." Laurie closed her eyes, the tears spilling onto her cheeks as she "replied" "I love you more, darling….", then froze.

"Look at me, Mrs. Simon."

Laurie opened her eyes to see Wright, then saw with a sick stomach he had a glass in his hand.

"I got a drink for you, I want you to be able to tell me what I want to know." He smirked.

Laurie stared at him, then shook her head as Rudy spoke up. "She's allergic to any kind of drugs, you'll only make her sick, no…" In two long strides the man was at her side, grabbing her face then trying to pour the liquid into her mouth. Coughing and choking, Laurie felt some of the liquid go down her throat.

"There, that wasn't so bad, my dear." Wright brushed the excess liquid off his camouflage shirt. He retreated to the shadows of the room, then returned with a chair and placed it in front of her.

At once Laurie started to feel dizzy and nauseous, and the room started getting dark, then light.

"Rick, he's, he's drugged me with something, I feel, oh I'm sick…" she started to call to Rick, then she felt her stomach turning.

She turned away from Wright, then bent over as best she could and was very sick.

"Damn it, bitch, don't do that!" he yelled, then forcibly turned her to look at him. Wrinkling his nose, he took a handkerchief and mopped her lower face. Laurie felt dizzy, then heard Wright asking a question.

"Rick, I feel faint, going to let go.." she "told" him, then closed her eyes and slumped down.

As she started to pass out, the doctor's voice broke through. "You animal! Don't you touch her!" Icy cold water was thrown on her, shocking her into consciousness.

Gasping and choking, she raised her head, then saw another man with Wright. Rudy was furiously struggling against the ropes that held him

"No fainting for you, Mrs. Simon. Bring her along, Corey, we'll have to try something else." He ordered.

Laurie gasped with pain as the blood flow returned to her freed wrists and ankles, then sagged against the man carrying her. "Bind her wrists, I don't want her to get away." Wright said, "No tricks, Mrs. Simon, or Doctor Wells will die." Once she was out of the chair, she saw them dragging Rudy along behind her.

Wright led the way out of the darkened room into what looked like an airplane hanger. A skylight let faint sunlight in, and Laurie immediately called to Rick "Darling, I'm on the base, in one of the hangers. There's a skylight."

Rick turned to Oscar frantically. "Dad, where on the base is there a hanger with a skylight, that's where they have them!"

Instantly he went back into the Secretary's office, then returned with a map.

"Here, son, in the rear of the base, it's the only one…."

"You stay here, Dad. Come on, A.J.!" Rick ran out of the offices and towards his truck, only for Oscar to shout after him, "I'm coming too, I'll get you some back up!"

Rick turned. "Okay-have them meet us!"

"Sweetheart, hold on!" he "called" to her.