As they moved towards the car, Cal noticed that Gillian kept glancing back to the house.

"What is it, Gill?"

"I don't know", she sighed. "There's something…. Did you notice how Caleb kept shifting his eyes to the side, as though he were trying to see something behind him in the house? Like he was waiting for something to happen or… I don't know. Something doesn't feel right."

"He was scared out of his mind. Could have been worried his brother would arrive home to find us in the house?", Cal reasoned.

"Could be. I don't know. We know he wasn't worried we'd find Amy. Assuming he knows she's not there."

"You think it's not him that took her? Think big brother did it all? He couldn't possibly have kept a secret like that."

Gillian considered his question as they got into the car. "No. Probably not. And there's no other reports of missing girls, but Claudia Kabuso was never reported missing. Maybe taking Amy was a mistake? Maybe there's more who haven't been reported."

"Well, the cops are watching the house. Torres will call if anything happens."

"You're right. Nothing else we can do, I guess."

Cal smiled at her and squeezed her hand before moving the car out to follow Wallowski's.

"How come you never let me drive?", Gillian asked in a clear effort to lighten the mood while they drove.

"I'll let you drive my car when we're entering the Indy 500, darling. You drive like Dale bloody Earnhardt."

They arrived at the hospital before Amy's parents did. Unable to speak to the teenager without her parent's permission, they focused their attention on obtaining a report on her condition from the medical team attending her, and locating the woman who found her and brought her in.

Amy was in a severe state of shock. She appeared to have no injuries beyond cuts and bruises, likely from her escape but some older scrapes potentially obtained during her abduction. She hadn't spoken much, but when she did she made repeated requests through a breakdown of sobs for her mother. According to the medical team she had volunteered no information on her abduction or subsequent escape.

Martha Ross had stuck around, knowing that the police would want to speak with her but mostly wanting reassurance that Amy would be ok. When their group found her, she was sitting in the waiting room outside the Emergency Department looking forlorn and wringing her hands together nervously staring at the news reports of the supposedly still missing girl.

Wallowski approached her first, Cal and Gillian hanging back to observe. This was police work before anything else. This woman was a vital witness, not a suspect, and they had no reason to expect any deception from her.

Wallowski sat with her at first, introducing herself and explaining what little she could of the situation. Lacking the privacy they would need to get a proper witness statement, only the most basic information could be discussed. Amy had shared no valuable information about what had happened to her, nor who was responsible. She simply wanted to go home. Martha felt much the same. She agreed to visit her local police precinct the following day, and Wallowski handed over her contact details in case anything occurred to her in the meantime. Wallowski would follow up if needed.

As the detective returned to the two psychologists standing a respectful distance away in a discrete corner of the room, Amy's parents burst through the main doors of the hospital. Wallowski moved to alert them to her presence, quickly informing them that although the police would need to speak to Amy as soon as possible they were conscious of the need for the family to reunite and happy to wait a short while. The Hamilton's were almost oblivious to the detective, focused entirely on the young man behind the reception desk and their demands to see their daughter. Wallowski showed her badge to the receptionist in the hope of speeding up the process and before long a doctor arrived to escort the couple inside.

The small group waiting outside wanted to give the Hamilton family time together. After about thirty minutes of awkward silence between the scientists and the detective, Cal's phone rang. Charlie Morris had arrived home with the urgency of a man with something to hide according to Torres. Yelling could be heard from inside the house and Ria wanted to move in. Cal told her to hang back for the time being but to be ready just in case.

"We can't wait any longer. We need to speak to Amy. Any chance your background checks have turned up any file photos of the Morris boys? Be very handy to get a reaction to a face. Lot easier than waiting for her to talk."

"Nothing's come through yet. I'll text Ibrahim, see if he's managed to turn up anything."

"Right then", Cal turned to Gillian, "You'll have to lead on this. Bedside manner's a bit better than mine in these cases."

Gillian nodded as Wallowski put her phone away and led the group through the doors to speak to the Hamiltons.

Amy's parents were waiting outside the private room where Amy was being treated. The door was open and there were a team of medics inside the room. Mrs Hamilton was in tears, Mr Hamiltons hand resting lightly on her shoulder.

"Mr and Mrs Hamilton. We're really sorry to disturb you at this time, but we've made significant progress on the investigation in the last couple of hours and we really need to speak to Amy to see if she can identify our prime suspects in this case. The sooner we can bring in whoever did this, the easier she'll sleep", Wallowski cut straight to the heart of the matter with a small amount of manipulation.

"That body they found. Was she taken by the same person? Why was my daughter found off the freeway by some stranger, and not by the cops whose job it is to find her?", Mr Hamilton lashed out.

"We don't have that information available yet about the woman they found. They're still examining the scene and the body. If there was any cause for concern you would have been told immediately. We promised you that. We don't know at this time if it's connected to your daughter's abduction. But the only way we can help that woman's family, if she had any, is by getting the person who did it. If it is connected, Amy's testimony, Amy's identification of who took her, is the only way to ensure this doesn't happen to anyone else. We really need to speak with her as soon as possible. The longer we put it off, the worse things could be."

Mr Hamilton looked disgusted by the idea. His wife, distraught, looked to her husband for his decision. After a moment, Mr Hamilton nodded his head and angled his body slightly away from them. "Not too long. If you upset her, it ends."

'No pressure', thought Gillian as she braced herself for the difficult conversation ahead.