Olivia stood outside the daycare center, staring blankly out at the street, completely numb. She could hear the wail of sirens that once seemed so distant get louder with each passing second. Looking down the street she saw a small army of police cars speed around the corner. Red, white and blue lights flashed brightly as cars hurried to get out of the way. Olivia could hear the tires squealing at the hard turn, and saw white smoke drift up from behind the vehicles. A black SUV screeched to a stop behind her own car and Murphy emerged from the driver's side.
"Liv!" he called out to her as he ran up the same steps Olivia had not ten minutes earlier. Fin, Nick and Amanda followed close behind him.
"Liv what happened?" Nick asked as the small group swarmed her.
"He's gone" was all she could manage to say.
"Fin go check to see if this place has any security cameras, Rollins I want you to go talk to the employees here see if anyone saw who took Noah." Fin and Amanda rushed off to tend to Murphy's orders. Murphy then turned his attention to Olivia, "Liv, I need a recent picture of Noah." When she didn't respond right away, Murphy gently touched her arm. She seemed startled at the contact and looked down at his hand for a long time before making eye contact with Murphy.
"I need a picture of Noah" he said again.
Olivia pulled out her phone and flipped through her photo gallery before landing on a picture of Noah at the zoo, smiling brightly. She turned the phone to show Murphy.
"Good" taking the phone from her, Murphy handed it to Nick. "I want this picture everywhere."
Turning his attention back to Olivia once Nick had run off to do his job. "We're going to find him Olivia. We have practically the entire force out looking for him."
Before Olivia could say anything, Fin burst through the door. "Liv, Lieutenant, I got something!"
"Alright so the daycare only has two cameras, one at the front entrance and one at the back…"
"That's it? Only two? What about the classrooms?"
"Ya well apparently they aren't 'a jewelry store protecting anything of value'" Fin said, quoting the owner who had set him up with the security footage.
"No just other people's children" Murphy quipped "so what'd you find?"
Fin took a seat in front of the computer monitor; a thin layer of dust covered the top edge of the screen. "Alright so I went back an hour ago, here's the guy walking out with Noah" Fin paused on a grainy screen shot of a man carrying Noah. He was wearing sunglasses and the poor quality of the camera made it hard to tell exactly who it was but Olivia would have bet all the money in the world that it was Jonathan Johnson. She wanted to jump through the screen and kill the man.
"Murphy that's him"
"Fin you have a better shot?"
"Not really" the screen was suddenly whirling back in time as Fin held down the rewind button "but I went back to when he first was going in, he never takes his glasses off. But I do have the make of the car, it's a white Mazda. I also got a partial plate; I can only make out the last two letters, Y and T." Olivia stared at the screen, at the man about to kidnap her son. She saw him paused in midstride as he made his way toward the daycare, wishing more than anything to keep him paused that way forever, safely away from her son.
"Good get back to the station, send out an APB, run the car information, maybe it has a tracker and I want that screen shot blown up and sent to every media outlet there is. See what you can find about Jonathan Johnson, we'll meet you back there."
Back at the precinct
The precinct was bustling when they arrived, phones were ringing off the hook and police officers were running about.
"Any viable tips?" Murphy yelled over to the officers who were working the tip hot line.
"Not many Lieutenant" an older officer answered back "we have officers out tracing them down, none have panned out yet."
Murphy cursed lightly under his breath before moving on to see if Fin had had any success.
"Fin, please tell me you have good news."
"I pulled up everything I could on Jonathan Johnson. He's 35, lives in Queens. Owns a, you guessed it, white Mazda, unfortunately there is no tracker on the car but a BOLO was sent out for the car and for Johnson. The whole city is on the lookout for this guy. He and his wife have been married for 4 years, Amaro and Rollins went out to talk with her."
Olivia was suddenly walking away, he watched her turn and head into one of the interrogation rooms.
"Good. Let me know immediately of any developments." Murphy said before heading out after Olivia.
"Liv?" Murphy said, poking his head through the door. Murphy saw Olivia sitting in one of the uncomfortable chairs kept in the room, her arms folded on the steel table, her head buried in her arms. He saw her body shake as she cried. Murphy went into the room, feeling like an intruder.
"Liv" he called out gently. Olivia lifted her head off the table and wiped the tears from her eyes.
"How can this be happening Declan?" she asked. The pain in her voice and in her eyes made his heart shatter into a million pieces.
"I don't know…" He walked over to her and pulled her up from the chair. Tucking a stray hair behind her ears, he looked her deeply in the eyes, so she could see the truth in his next words "Noah is going to be okay. I promise we'll find him."
"What if we don't? I've never been so scared….What if…what if he hurts him?" Olivia said fresh tears stinging her eyes. Murphy pulled her into a tight hug, she cried into his shoulder, and he kissed the top of her head.
"He's not. We're going to bring home your son Liv, safe and sound."