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Don, having given everyone an hour off for lunch before they returned for further briefing on the case, decided to take his cousins and brother to his favorite sandwich place located a few blocks from his office. The four cousins were currently seated at a booth in the back of the shop enjoying their meal and catching up on each other's lives while simultaneously referencing the case.

"It seems like we're flat out of leads." Joe mused while idly stirring his drink with his straw. "It doesn't seem like there's very much to go on at all."

"What I don't get is why we have nothing to go on." Don said with a frown. "I've never seen anything like this, we have five very high profile people go missing, a couple of them in broad daylight, and no one saw anything? I find that hard to believe. How is this guy managing to do this?" It was unclear whether he meant this as a rhetorical question or not, but the others at the table decided to assume he wanted an answer.

"Well, he could be drugging them." Frank suggested. "Chloroform, maybe, it would explain how he managed to grab them without signs of a struggle…but even then he'd have to be pretty fast to knock them out and get them off the scene before anyone noticed them being dragged away." He added, absently drumming his fingers on the tabletop as he spoke.

"Well, have you considered the altruistic nature of the victims?" Joe asked.

"Why?" Don wondered. "You think the perp tricked them or something?"

"Well, we've got the victim from New Hampshire who ran a youth center for kids; he disappeared jogging through the park, right?"

"Yes." Don confirmed.

"Okay, well the agents said that somewhere between the park and his house he went missing, maybe someone asked him for help with something, like a broken down car?" Joe mused, drawing his eyebrows together in thought.

"It does make a certain amount of sense." Charlie agreed. "However, do we have anything that would actually confirm that theory? Other than knowledge that the

victim was into helping people?"

"Well, there was the report of an SUV parked outside of the park at around the time Fanfold disappeared, which does add some credence to the theory, although it is by no means concrete." Frank replied.

"At this point we can't confirm that one way or another, but it is worth looking into." Don said. "This case is a mess, and we need to move quickly before anyone else disappears." He added.

"On that note, we should probably be heading back; our lunch break is almost over." Charlie pointed out.

They arrived back at the L.A. office and returned to the conference room where the meetings regarding the case were being held. Agents lolled about the room waiting for the meeting to resume, chatting with each other about the weather, the case, and numerous other topics. Frank, Joe, and Charlie returned to their seats while Don returned to his spot at the front of the room.

"At this time, I'm going to turn the floor over to Agent Megan Reeves, who will be giving us a preliminary profile on the type of person who would do this." Don announced quieting all the agents assembled in the room. "Megan?"

"The profile I have assembled so far is only preliminary, and not necessarily exact, as we do not have much evidence to go on currently." Megan cautioned as she began her report. "At this point I am almost positive that these crimes were committed by the same person, it is highly unlikely that we could have this many geniuses disappear at once, if you're interested in the exact odds feel free to ask Professor Eppes." She continued pausing to wink at Charlie before she continued.

"Whoever is behind these kidnapping probably likes to be in control, which is typical of most kidnappers. I can't tell you whether whoever did this is violent; there haven't been any indications that he or she is violent so far, but that doesn't mean that they won't hurt the victims if provoked." Megan said grimly. "I can tell you that everything so far indicates that this person is not going to stop abducting people until he accomplishes his goal whatever that may be or we stop him one or the other." She continued. "Judging from the victims thus far, I would say this guy is 'collecting,' gathering prodigies from different fields for some purpose. Possibly for his own sick amusement, or he may be using them for some form of black market activities."

"Do we have any leads on other possible targets?" Agent Nichols asked as Megan concluded her recap.

"Well, beyond the fact that geniuses are being targeted we don't have much to go on, and considering there are thousands if nots millions of geniuses in the United States alone, there's not much we can do from that angle." Megan responded.

"Have we considered putting out a press release warning all geniuses to at the very least be on their guard?" Agent Garrison asked. "I mean, we do it with serial killers and rapists targeting specific types of people all the time, couldn't we apply the same sort of policy here?"

"Generally, in those cases we're talking about someone operating in a fairly small area, so, the slight panic caused by such an announcement is outweighed by the benefits, on the other hand if we start telling every genius in the entire country to expect an attack..." Don trailed off meaningfully. It occurred to him that Frank and Charlie were probably correct in thinking him overprotective, the likelihood of either of them being a target out of the millions of geniuses available to the perp were fairly slim, not much more than the odds they'd have of being attacked on any given day (and probably considerably less than Frank's chances of being kidnapped for any other reason considering how often he or Joe went missing).

"Well, then how are we going to proceed from here?" Agent Bedingfield asked.

"We know that there was a black SUV at the scene of the New Hampshire crime, and a panel van at the L.A. scene. We'll need to hunt down whatever we can find from that angle, and considering our lack of leads we should probably start going through old case files for any similar crimes." Don replied warily. "I know we don't have much, but we need to work with what we've got."

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