"Jim Moss. Freddy would never forget that haunting voice, he gripped the receiver hard, shocked. "What do you want?" he demanded in a barely audible whisper.

"Is that it" the voice on the other end of the line, laughed harshly, almost incredulous "No 'I'll kill you for what you have done you son of a bitch? I've got to say I am disappointed, did my friend clobber you too hard? Don't you want to know if she's still alive?"

With those words, it hit him, the FBI had been looking at this from totally the wrong angle, and this wasn't about money! He finally regained his senses, as the full horror of the situation began to bite.

"Where is she?" He demanded with an uncontrollable anger.

"Now that's more like it Moss exclaimed happily "Now open the mail I gave you" With shaking hands, Freddy tore open the envelope. Polaroid after Polaroid shot of Daphne bound and gagged and terrified, fell to the floor. Freddy felt his world collapsing around him. "Why are you doing this?" he demanded, his voice breaking.

Moss's voice got harsher, darker "I always swore I'd get revenge on you kids for thwarting my plans, especially you. You with your smug grin and satisfaction as I was led away humiliated in front of my colleagues because of you. Well now I'm the one with the smug grin and satisfaction because I've got something of yours!" There was the sound of something being ripped off and then he heard her.

"Freddy" her voice was full of fear but hope.

"Daphne" he cried out. He heard her scream in pain as the receiver was snatched back.

"That's all for now Freddy. Don't worry you'll hear from us again." The line went dead and Freddy was left to contemplate his feelings and the terrifying situation he now knew Daphne was in.

Danny finished his phone conversation, looking perplexed "Ok thanks bye." He rejoined his colleagues in the bullpen. "That was the local police. Dawson didn't do it. The boyfriend has just received a call from the kidnapper and proof of life." Heads turned in surprise.

"The boyfriend?" Martin repeated, incredulous "but that doesn't make any sense, he doesn't have any money"

"But that's the thing" Danny exclaimed. "This isn't about money!"

"Its not" Viv and Samantha said in surprised unison.

"I think we need to have a long chat with Mr Jones" Jack stated, more than intrigued by this new twist.

10 am

Samantha and Danny conducted the interview with the others waiting outside. "Ok Freddy, you need to tell us everything, absolutely everything" Samantha started "We've seen the photos, you need to tell us what was said in the phone call and if you recognised the voice."

"Yeh I recognised the voice" Fred said bitterly "how could I forget it. It was Jim Moss"

"And he is…" Danny prompted "an ex college buddy, team-mate, local thug?" desparately trying to think of someone who could possibly hold such a grudge against a 20 year old.

"He's an ex con" Freddy stated flatly.

Samantha was the first to recover from the truth "and uh how did you make an enemy of an ex con, were you on witness protection or something?"

Freddy laughed ironically "Huh I wish" He looked at the expectant faces of the two agents and sighing realised it was time to tell the truth.

"See the thing is when we were younger about four or five years ago, myself, Daphne and a couple of our friends formed a little club and we solved mysteries that seemed uh supernatural" Despite the seriousness of the situation, Samantha was struggling to keep a straight face at the amazing story. Danny meanwhile seemed intrigued. "So we would go to houses, fairgrounds anywhere where there were strange sightings and solved the mysteries. There was always a logical explanation, a crime that was being covered up bank robberies, jewellery thefts, smuggling, oil, gold all sorts we went everywhere catching the crooks and unmasking them. I guess over that time we pissed off a lot of people and many ended up with jail sentences" He finished sadly.

"A bunch of 15/16 year olds thwart their grand plans, Yeh I'll bet they were pissed off" Danny said in awe.

"And uh this Jim Moss what did he do?" Samantha enquired, still not quite believing what she had just heard.

"He was perhaps our most difficult; certainly the smartest because he was a detective, even though the clues pointed towards him we just couldn't believe it. He was caught for dog napping, well we caught him and he was suspected of bigger crimes. While trying to find the dogs, I found a large bag of cocaine and made sure it was found on him, Velma had seen him with it. I think he went to prison in San Francisco, where it happened."

Viv went off to check out the records, the others were still struggling to take it all in. How could a group of kids cause so much trouble for themselves? Danny let out a huge sigh this is going to be easy he thought wryly a drug-dealing, ex detective. "Well did he say what he wanted?"

"He just said he wanted revenge for what I'd done to him. He let me hear her, hear that she was still alive"

"Did she say anything?" Samantha asked

"He only let her call my name and then I think he hit her and hung up." His fists balled up as he remembered the sound of the blow.

"Ok so the guy who attacked you, was it Moss?" Danny pressed.

"No" Freddy shook his head firmly "the guy who attacked me was quite tall with brown hair. Moss had sandy blond hair" seeing Samantha was going to interrupt him he quickly clarified "he may have been able to change his hair colour but not his height. Moss is at least 6ft 5; the guy who attacked me was tall but not that tall"

Danny was impressed with his skills of deduction.

"So he has at least one other person helping him, possibly more, looks like we better get on with going through that list again" Jack stated 10 minutes later, as the team reconvened. "Martin you will accompany Fred in his apartment in case he gets any more phone calls"

"Got it Jack" the young agent replied, heading out to his car, Fred in tow.

"Samantha myself and Danny will split the guest list up between us, visit them and try and identify and locate the accomplice.Viv what you got on the records?

"So far not found any Jim Moss or anyone with a similar record yet, will keep searching" Viv confided, looking up from the computer screen.

Jack, Samantha and Danny headed out into the cool morning air, on a search to find the vital breakthrough that will lead to the girl.