Just at that moment, a man appeared on the stairs, his hands were bloody, Danny didn't want to think about where the blood had come from. He struggled to free himself from the chair, it didn't take him long to realise Jake had done an expert job with the ropes. Nor did it take Danny long to realise who the man was. Jim Moss, Jake's biological father. "What do we have here Jake" Moss demanded, seeing the young man tied to the chair.

"He's with the FBI, he saw the dress fabric outside, and I guess she snagged it on something, I didn't know what else to do, and I panicked"

Moss laughed. "Careless Jake, so young and still a lot to learn, my boy" he said stroking the top of Jake's head, Danny watched the exchange repulsed. "We must leave now there's bound to be those who will come find out what's happened to their missing agent." Danny hoped and prayed Jack and the team were already on their way.

"What about him?" Jake demanded, pointing at Danny "He knows too much"

"He's coming with us." Moss smirked at Danny, who looked up in surprise, just before Moss made him exhale the fumes of a drug filled rag he had concealed in his hand, before the inevitable blackness claimed him.

As the team reconvened at the office an hour later, Danny was no where in sight. Martin brought his colleagues up to speed on developments in the past hour.

"This guy is really sick and twisted, he keeps ringing and tormenting Freddy by letting him hears her being attacked and then hanging up. We've gotta get this bastard before he goes too far."

Jack could see that this case was already beginning to take its toll; Martin had clearly been affected by what he had heard.

"And he's damn clever" Martin continued "We was unable to track the calls not to even a ten mile radius! He had some kind of surveillance Jack, he knew I was there"

Jack was very disturbed by this, the clever ones were always difficult but an ex detective? He knew exactly how these things worked; they had to hope they could find his accomplice. He was starting to get annoyed with Danny, where the hell was he?

Samantha was obviously thinking the same "nobody seen Danny? He should have been back by now, Jack did you find anything? I sure as hell didn't, alibis checked out, nothing suspicious"

"No" Jack replied "and I'm starting to think that maybe Danny did"

"I think you might be right Jack" Viv said striding anxiously into the room "I just got a call, Danny's car has been found outside a Jake Beckett's house, and there is no sign of Danny" she added. The team exchanged worried glances as they digested this information.

"Jake Beckett? Samantha questioned as they pulled up outside the house, 10 minutes later, remembering the name from the list "isn't he just a kid?"

"The most unlikely suspect" Jack said sadly as they searched his house for any sign of Danny, "Danny must have thought so too" he said, his eyes spotting something in the corner, he picked up the discarded gun and broken radio.

"Those are Danny's" Sam confirmed. A feeling of dread was beginning to knot in her stomach, why would he leave his car and his gun?

"Sam" Jack tore her out of her turmoiled thoughts thrusting a photo at her. It was Moss and Jake. "No way" she breathed, struggling to take in the image.

Vivian walked into the room looking very troubled, "Jack we found some blood in one of the upstairs rooms, a lot of blood, and also a scarf which we are almost positive belongs to Miss Blake"

"Dammit!" Jack cursed, "She was here, Dammit Taylor what did you do?" He blasted the missing cocky Agent.

"Jack we just got a statement from a neighbour" Martin said walking in, looking worried "She saw Jake leave with another man about an hour ago, she thought they were carrying something heavy shrouded in blankets" He stated grimly.

Jack recovered quickly from the shock development "Uh did she see anything suspicious in the last few days?"

"She thought Jake was a normal happy teenager, he went to college at Deaston, the same place both Daphne and Freddy attended. He only just moved in last year when he started college"

Jack sighed "How could we have let him escape our grasp, we should have made this link long ago"

"We all thought we had the right guy Jack, we didn't think it could be anyone else" Jack didn't reply to Martin's reassurance, wondering how costly this mistake was going to prove.