It took Samantha several seconds to realise that she was not dead; indeed Moss never squeezed the trigger. She looked up in shock and delight to see Martin stood there grim faced, having just shot Moss dead. His gun was still held firm. Samantha couldn't believe it really was him but there he was the bloody bandaged hero. "Martin" she breathed as they quickly embraced "How did you get here, are you Ok?" She said indicating his heavily bandaged head. "I'm fine" He replied "Looks like I got here just in the nick of time" he said as they cut Freddy free.
Jack was relieved to see Samantha appear on the gangplank above, and was surprised to see Martin as they dragged an injured Danny between them. "Fitzgerald what the hell are you doing out of hospital?" He bellowed. "How's Danny?" he indicated. "Danny" Samantha questioned puzzled. It was only as they got closer that he realised it wasn't Danny at all, they were carrying. "You didn't find Danny either" he said clearly very worried.
"He's got to be here somewhere" Samantha said "But we've checked all the rooms"
"Wait a minute" she said her eyes following a bloody trail on the floor "A trapdoor!" Samantha quickly disappeared through the wooden door closely followed by Martin and Jack. In the corner was Danny, unconscious and lying in a pool of blood, Moss had shot him in the leg and left him to bleed to death.
"Oh god Danny!" Samantha screamed rushing forward to where his crumpled body lay, he was in a terrible state but still breathing, he had however lost a lot of blood. Jack called urgently for medical help whilst Martin and Samantha cut Danny free and tried desperately to stem the blood flow. Tears welled up in Samantha's eyes as she looked over his battered body. Bruises covered much of his face and one eye was badly swollen, his lip was split and his hair was matted with blood. His shirt was partly torn and revealed a stab wound and his ribs were badly bruised. What did that bastard do to you? She cursed as he was loaded into the ambulance. Martin held her reassuringly as her tears fell freely now. The past few days had been a nightmare she never wanted to relive. "Its OK Sam, he's going to be OK we found him in time"
"But what if we hadn't Martin? He could have died and then that bastard would have won" The two bodies were wheeled out and it took all Samantha's professional strength to resist the urge not to spit on them. Jack slowly approached the pair, "Were just finishing up here and then were going to go to the hospital, Martin, you need to answer some questions about the shooting, don't worry they know it was self defence, you just need to clear up the details"
"Sure" Martin sighed, reluctant to leave Samantha, she continued to stare wide eyed at the spot they had found Danny, she had honestly thought he was dead; he had lost so much blood. As Jack and Martin walked away, she was suddenly aware of a new presence behind her. It was Jake Beckett, Sam quickly wiped away her tears as the boy came to stand by her side.
"I didn't know there would be so much blood" he said his voice shaking. "Is Danny going to be OK?"
"Er Yeh Jake, Danny's going to live, it's thanks to you that we found him in time" She turned around to properly face him
"No it's thanks to me that he was ever involved in this mess, in fact I'm responsible for this whole thing!" Jake's guilt was overwhelming. "Three innocent people could have died today and it would have all being my fault!"
"Your father manipulated you Jake, anyone could see that, you did the right thing in the end" Samantha replied.
"I should never have swallowed his lies, I deserve to be punished for what I did not treated as some kind of hero" Jake walked away to speak to the waiting police. Sam sighed knowing he would at least be charged with abduction and possibly accessory to attempted murder. He had come good in the end she hoped he would be looked at favourably.