"...the lady, they just... they just took her!"
"There's always something, Chin. Always. We just have to find it."
"THE MASK" Chapter 2
9:19am - AT HQ...
"Commander McGarrett, you're gonna wanna see this!" Charlie said from the doorway of Steve's office where the Five-0s were having a brainstorming session. They were trying to come up with ideas on where to start looking for Kono, who could have taken her, and why.
"What is it, Charlie?" Steve asked as they all stood.
"I just got the footage from the street cam." Charlie replied, leading them all out to the Smart Table for viewing.
"This camera angle is from across the street. It's the only view we've got, plus the sun was just coming up so the lighting is not the best, and the rain doesn't help the clarity." Charlie said beginning his step-by-step narration as they all stood in front of the large monitors to watch. "There's a flash from a gun in the far right of the screen, that's the bullet that went through the front windshield and hit Harrison,... there are the two men approaching,... then there is another flash of gunfire inside the car, presumably from Kono,... the way the guy jumped back makes me think she hit him, then they drag her out onto the sidewalk with what looks to be a knife,... then she kicks some ass for a while until a third man approaches who goes into the car via the drivers-side door and comes out with what appears to be Kono's gun,... then he points it at her at which point all the fighting stops,... they cuff her with her own cuffs,... then the three leave in a van taking her and the perp Paul Zimmerman with them." Charlie looks up from the Smart Table to face his colleagues and can tell by the looks on their faces that they'd hoped he would have more. "That's it, that's all there is." He adds.
"Back that footage up to the fighting part." Danny requests and Charlie efficiently complies. "There, right there, Steve. It looks like Kono pulls off the guy's mask."
"You're right, Danny." Steve agrees. "She did."
"That's why they took her. Because she could ID one of them." Chin states, stress still evident in his voice.
"Probably." Danny agrees, "We need to analyze that mask right away." He addes, turning to Charlie.
"But, we didn't recover a mask at the scene." Charlie said, looking down at the evidence log.
"No one found a mask?" Steve asks, looking around to everyone. They all shake their heads.
Steve turns back to Charlie, "I want you to let this footage keep rolling and see if you can spot who picked up that mask."
"Will do." Charlie replied, turning back to the screen.
MEANWHILE...
Kono sat on the floor in the living room of a run down old brownstone. She was cuffed to the radiator and listening to the men that abducted her argue with each other.
"Why didn't ya just shoot her there?" Brandon Pauley asked. Pauley was a tall, skinny kid with brown hair that looked looked like it hadn't been washed in a week. "Now what are we gonna tell Nick?"
"You wanna yell that a little louder, Brandon? In case the neighbors on the other side of that wall didn't hear ya." Guy Nichols said back, pointing to the wall that separated their living room from the one next door. Nichols was an older, heavier guy with fair skin and strawberry blonde hair. "It's bad enough the cops almost got Zimmerman, you want 'em to get us all?"
"So, what are we gonna tell Nick?" Pauley asked again.
"I don't know, man." Nichols whined. "This is all your fault. You figure something out."
"My fault?" Pauley asked. "How is this my fault?"
"Because you're the one who got his mask pulled off by a chick who was kickin' your ass." Adam Fuller spoke up finally as he wrapped an Ace bandage around the bullet graze on his upper arm. Fuller was a young black guy in his twenties, who obviously had a thing for tattoos and body piercing.
Keys could be heard in the front door and a man much older than the other three, probably in his fifties, walked in. He stopped in the middle of the living room and looked at the other three, then at Kono.
"Nick, I can explain." Was as far as Pauley got before he was backhanded.
"Then you'd better get started, 'cause right now I see the customer I sent ya for and a cop I didn't." Nick Waldman instructed. Waldman was a short stocky man with salt and pepper hair that was beginning to recede. He wore glasses and smelled strongly of cigar smoke.
"She pulled off my mask, Nick. We couldn't just let her go after that." Pauley half explained and half pleaded.
"She's a feisty one." Fuller commented, watching Waldman walk over and crouch down in front of Kono. "We were just gonna stuff her in the trunk and go, but she had other ideas."
"Well, I don't like my women feisty, so you'd better keep your mouth shut while I figure out what to do with ya." Waldman ordered Kono in a threatening tone.
Chapter 3 up soon