^^^^^Meanwhile across town^^^^^
"Hold on, Cole! Just give me a second chance, I'll get you the money!"
"I don't want the money! I want that horse!"
"The cops have it, there's no way I can get him back."
"Well, that's a shame." Cole grinned and held up a gun.
"One more chance, please!"
"No more chances." He replied as he pulled the trigger.
^^^^Back at Horatio's^^^^
Tom followed Luke and Bo to the guest bedroom, where Bo changed into some sleeping pants and laid down. Luke sat on the bed next to him and asked.
"Bo, you okay?"
"Luke, I'm cold and tired is all." When he saw the worry in Luke's eyes, he added. "Luke, I'll be fine in a couple hours. Don't go worrying on me now."
"Sorry, I can't help it." To end the awkward path this conversation was headed, Bo changed the subject.
"Did you get ahold of Coy?"
"Yeah, I called him earlier. He knows what happened. He's getting several people together to help with the animals and to check on the crops."
"That's good."
"I'll let you sleep until you wake up on your own." He patted Bo on the leg as he got to his feet. "I'm gonna go and talk to Horatio." Luke left the room; as Tom stayed with Bo and found Horatio in the living room.
"Why did you tell that guy we were leaving? There's no way Bo is going be able to go back tonight."
"I know that, Lukas." Luke smiled at Horatio's comment and shook his head.
"I get the feeling that you are about to pull alittle shuck and jive?"
"Shuck and jive?" Horatio asked.
"Say you're going to do one thing, then do another."
"I see. You up to alittle shuck and jive?"
"I am. Bo not so much."
"I have a lab tech that is about the same height as Bo. Same color hair as well. He can fill in for Bo."
"Did you find our cell phone?" Horatio gave Luke a confused look.
"We didn't recover any cell phones at the scene."
"Bo had a cell phone that we use when we travel."
"What's the number? We can track it."
"It's a pay as you go. We don't normally use cell phones because where we live there's no service."
"If the battery isn't dead, we can track it. If the battery is dead, we can locate where the phone was when it died." Luke wrote down the cell phone number and gave it to Horatio.
"I have to go to the lab. Will you be alright here?"
"Should be."
"I won't be long." Luke watched him leave then headed back to the guest room. 25 minutes later, Horatio was back in the lab. Before Horatio could say a word, Walter gave him some new information.
"Hey, Horatio. I checked the call log for calls made to 911 for the time they may have been taken." Walter brought up the call that he thought was the one they needed.
"Call was taken at 5:23pm, lasted about 30 seconds." Walter played the 911 call.
"911, what is your emergency?"
"Help us." Wind could be heard in the background.
"Sir, what is your location?" Silence. "Sir? Sir?" The line went dead.
"Ran the number, belongs to a pay as you go phone. Purchased in Capital City, Georgia. I'm guessing it's the Duke's phone."
"What's the number?" Horatio checked the number against the one Luke gave him.
"That's their phone. We need to find that phone, Walter." They made their way back to the garage and looked at the truck.
"We know they were moved to the 'glades in this truck, so they were put in the bed and covered with that tarp." Horatio pointed to the tarp that was hanging on a line, waiting to be processed for prints.
"Walter." Horatio looked at the tool box. "Did you move the tool box at all?"
"Yes, I did. Had to unbolt it." Horatio climbed into the bed of the truck and looked carefully at the sides of the truck. He came up empty.
"If he called 911, he had the phone in the truck. Which the question remains, what happened to the phone?"
"May have fallen out when they took them out of the truck to dump them."
"We need to get back to the 'glades and find that phone." Hortio and Walter made their way back to where Bo and Luke were found.