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"Hello, everyone, I'm Special Agent Megan Reeves," The profiler began once all the agents involved in the 'missing geniuses' case had piled into the conference room and taken their seats. "Some of you may have noticed that Special Agent Eppes is not with us today, and I'm sure you understand why." She continued. "I will be lead agent on this case in his place from this point onward. That being said we have had three new disappearances as you know: Dr. Benjamin Nemi, Dr. Frank Hardy, and Dr. Charles Eppes." As she spoke she indicated to the pictures of each individual that had been posted on the wall. "At this point we can be certain that these crimes are connected, thankfully we do have a new lead, Agent Granger, report."

Colby stood up from his seat at the conference table at her command. "Joe Hardy, who you all met several days ago as a consultant on this case for the New Hampshire office, was with his brother and cousin when they were abducted."

At this point various whisperings broke out as the agents seemed excited at the possibility of finally having a concrete lead.

"Unfortunately, Joe is unable to remember anything that occurred." Disappointed murmurs swept through the room. "However," Colby continued in a loud voice breaking through the other talking. "Joe had the foresight to record the abduction on his camera, the tech guys have managed to clean it up and from that tape we have gleaned the following two photos." Colby tacked up the enhanced images of the two men who had taken Charlie and Frank on the wall.

"I trust you've run their faces through facial recognition software?" Agent Nichols, the lead agent from the New Hampshire office, inquired.

"Of course," Colby agreed. "We got hits on both men. The first gentleman, the shorter one, is a Matt Brennan, wanted for robbery, assault, and attempted murder. He went off the radar a year ago, completely disappeared as though into thin air, it was theorized that he left the country. The second one, is a Robert Flynn, he did time for kidnapping, and was wanted on charges of assault and grand theft auto, before he abruptly disappeared similar to Brennan."

"Based off research into their histories," David began. "Neither of them seems to be the criminal mastermind type, most of their previous crimes seemed to have been ordered by a third party but the authorities could never pin anything down. That, in addition to the fact that on Joe's video they make a phone call to an unknown person we can be fairly certain that neither of them are the architect behind these kidnappings."

"In addition, CalSci security cameras picked up this image of Charlie and Frank getting into the back of a black SUV." Megan broke in, tacking up the image of the SUV. "We scanned the plate number and found the car to have been reported stolen three weeks ago."

"They're getting sloppy." Agent Garrison, the lead agent from Florida noted with no small amount of glee.

"It would appear so." Megan agreed. "We need to capitalize on that and attempt to find them before they have time to hide their tracks."

"What is our next move?" Agent Jefferson from the Montana offices inquired.

"We hit the streets, take the pictures of Brennan and Flynn and try to find someone who has seen them; in addition we fax the pictures to your home offices, and get people to take the pictures to shoe to any potential witnesses to the various disappearances." Megan replied. "We will also soon be joined by another team from the D.C. offices, who were called onto the scene when Benjamin Nemi disappeared; they are still conducting preliminary investigations such as taking witness accounts and such, when they finish with that they will fly here, and join in our search. We have reason to believe that because three of the kidnapped individuals have been taken from California that the kidnappers' base of operations is either in this state or else a bordering one. Let's get started then. Meet back here at one this afternoon to discuss findings." She concluded grimly.

-Story Break-

Charlie and Emily had been left in a conference room together to discuss possible approaches for the bank hacking scheme. When it came time to use the computers to actually do the task they would be heavily supervised in order to make sure they didn't have time to get a message out.

"I have a plan." Charlie announced after they had sat in silence for at least ten minutes.

"Tell me it's not a plan for how to successfully hack the bank." Emily requested.

"Well, sort of." Charlie admitted. "We can hide a trace, so that when they go to investigate the missing funds it will link back to our computer, which will hopefully let them find us."

Emily looked thoughtful. "The only question is how we manage to pull that off without them knowing what we're doing."

"How much do they know about hacking?" Charlie asked her.

"Not much, but enough." Emily replied.

"Well, we will just have to disguise the coding for the trace as best we can, and hope they don't notice, there's not really anything else that we can do." The mathematician answered grimly. "They think that they have us trapped, with their threats against our family, but that's not strictly true, we can just inform them that if they harm our family members we will definitely refuse to do any more work of any kind for them, and at that point they will either harm us to let the message sink in or else let it go. But they probably won't hurt us too badly anyway, because they need us to make their money."

The computer specialist looked slightly nervous, but resolved. "Let's do this." She declared.

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