'Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock…'

The clock in the Summer Bay Police Department was driving Jack mad! Every 'tick' was a second without Martha; every 'tock' was a second of her life.

"Did you see the number plate?" Steph asked Jack curiously.

"No, I was looking at the men… actually yes I think I saw part of it…" Jack replied.

"Well… what was it?" Jess asked him impatiently.

"The end bit… it was… 80X, I think" Jack told the two ladies.

"Jess, run a search will you?" Steph told her edgily.

"Why do I always have to do it?" Jess whispered under her breath, luckily Steph didn't hear as she too busy talking to Jack. "Lazy worker"

As Jess was searching for blue vans with number plates ending in 80X, she had a sudden brainwave and she decided to search Jack Holden, just to see if he really was a police officer. As she typed in each letter, she began to think, J-A- "what if he pushed her in the van?" C-K H-O- "maybe he is in on it?" L-D-E-N. A list of five hundred Jack Holden's came up.

"Oh great" Jess said without meaning to speak out loud.

"What's that?" asked Steph sharply.

"Sorry, I was running his name… just to be sure of him, and I found this list of all of these men!"

"Well look for one in Summer Bay, that is married, has no children and is a police officer" Steph told Jess firmly.

"Gotcha" Jess mouthed.

And sure enough there he was, his details seemed to be correct, except Jess still felt something was wrong. She continued to search the document... word after word, fact after fact. But everything seemed to be in order…

Meanwhile, in the warehouse

"Hang, shoot or stab her?" Martin asked Bob looking rather excited about the thought of just killing someone.

"We will let William decide that!"

"Will! How is she going to die?" Martin yelled at William with a look of evil in his eyes.

"I, uh…. I don't want to kill her…" "Martha is too beautiful to die" William said, almost apologetically.

"Martha?" Bob asked him.

"Yes, she said her name was Martha… a beautiful name for a beautiful girl"

"Get over it! You pulled her into the van" Bob told him sharply

"I wish I hadn't" William said and he ran towards Martha. "Kill her… and you have to kill me"

"Ohhhhhhh somebody is in love!" Martin said playfully.

"SHUTUP!" Bob yelled. "You are here to do your job Will, not to play the hero"

"OK fine, I will go and get a long rope from the store and we will hang her" he told both men.

And with that William ran out of the warehouse and jumped into the van, he didn't go to the local store though… he went to Summer Bay; he was going to the police.

"Hello, my name is William Traverse and I need to report a kidnapping"

"OK sir, take a seat and I will get one of our officers" the receptionist told him.

"Jess! Steph!" she called out with a sound of urgency.

Steph and Jess came running into the main entrance, with Jack following close behind.

"What's wrong Lisa?" Jess asked.

"This man, William, he needs to report a kidnapping…"

"MARTHA!" Jack shouted at him. "What have you done to her!" Jack dived at him, ready to start a fight. Jess and Steph jumped straight in and pulled them apart.

"What happened?" Steph asked William very gently.

"We took her…" he said very slowly.

"Who's 'we'?" Jess said calmly.

"Bob, Martin and I. It was meant to be a joke… I didn't know they were going to kill her…"

"Kill who, William?" Jess asked him.

"This girl… she said her name was Martha…"

"What does she look like?" Steph asked quickly.

"Brown hair, quite tall… she was wearing a wedding dress."

"IT'S MARTHA!" Jack exclaimed, throwing another punch at William.

"How are they going to kill her?" Jess asked inquisitively.

"They are going to… shoot her…" his voice trailed off into the distance as a gun shot rung out very clearly…