The next morning Abbott comes into the office and goes over to Cho's desk. "Did he call in this morning?"
Cho looks serious and shakes his head no. "He's been calling every morning at eight sharp, but not today."
"Okay, let's wait until this afternoon and see if he calls in." He walks away looking very mad.
It is dark….and a cage is in the middle of the floor. A man moans from inside the cage and tries to sit up.
Jane moans and touches the back of his head and feels a lump there. He reaches out to figure out where he is, both of his hands reach out and finds what feels like wire. He reaches up and finds more of the wire. He moves his legs and moves further down and finds that there is more wire.
"I'm in a cage….. And is smells like cows in here." He says to himself, just as a cow moos. It scares him for a second. He pushes on all sides of the cage and the top and nothing moves. With his right arm he feels down the side and finds a cage opening, with a lock on it. He knew without looking that he didn't have anything to open it with. His head was hurting, he lies down on the floor of the cage drawing his legs up to his chest to try and keep warm.
The next morning at the FBI, Cho is sitting at his desk looking worried. He picks up his phone and dials a number, he waits for it answer, and finally shuts the phone off. Abbott comes into the office, and he heads over to Cho.
"Okay why didn't he call in yesterday, bet he had a great Jane answer." He says putting is briefcase on Cho's desk.
"He hasn't called in yet. He doesn't answer his phone either.'
"Shouldn't have given him the time off….put a tracer on his phone and on the Air Stream….I put a tracer on it when he first bought it. I want him found Cho….today." with that he picks up his briefcase and walks away.
"Okay Jane….where did you go and what did you get in trouble with." Cho says picking up his phone and starts dialing.
George comes into the barn, he sees a sleeping Jane in the cage. He takes a shovel and walks over to the cage and hits it hard with it. The noise wakes Jane up with a start; he sits up and hits the top of his head on the top of the cage. He looks around and sees the older man standing there with a shovel.
"Could have just said morning and I would have been awake….what am I here?" he says holding his hand to the back of his head making a face as his hand makes it hurt where the lump is.
"My name is George Keller" he says with a voice full of anger.
"I don't believe we've met before Mr. Fuller."
"We haven't met before, but you knew my wife….you took all my savings because of her." George says, his face turning red with anger.
"Look, I don't know who you are, and I never met anyone named Fuller." Jane says beginning to be nervous. There were probably a lot of angry husbands out there.
"He name is Ellen…..you told her that her sister was trying to reach her…..after the show she was on, you told her that you could do a private session with her. She paid you two thousands of my money to have that session with you. I didn't have money to hire any workers to plant my crops those years….because of you I lost ten thousand dollar that year."
"I'm sorry about that Mr. Fuller. I had no idea that your wife was using money that she couldn't afford….I don't even remember her. You let me out of here and I can get your lost money back."
"I don't want you money…..how many other people did you rob of their savings….You are going to pay me back by helping me with my crops this year. You are going to work for your freedom Mr. Jane." With that George walks out of the barn leaving a puzzled Jane sitting in the cage.
Cho and a couple of other agents drive up to a small diner; the one Jane had stopped at. They get out of the van and look around. Cho motions to one man to go to the gas station while he and the other agent go into the diner. They go over to the counter and a man comes over to them.
"Get you boys some hot coffee?" The man says.
"No thank you, we're look for this man." Shows a picture of Jane. "We know he was here a couple of days ago."
The man looks at the photo and shrugs his shoulders. "Can't say I did…could have been here when I was off."
"Who else works here?" Cho says in a voice that means business. He shows his badge.
"There is Fred he works days that I don't….Honey who is a waitress here, but she is at school now. Norma is the waitress on now."
"I want to talk to all of you together now…." The other agent comes in and goes over to Cho.
"The gas station remembers the Air Stream filling up gas two days ago….then it went on its way."
Cho turns to the man "Get them here within the hour or we will have them picked up by the local sheriff here. I have already advised him that the man that is missing is a FBI Consultation and we believe he was here two days ago."
Sometime later he and the other agents are looking inside the Air Stream that has been found a short way from the diner in a wooded area. A Sheriff is with them. "So you have a tracer on this trailer…why is that?"
"It is our business not yours. Does this land belong to anybody" Cho says as the other agents check every area inside the trailer.
"County property out here. Pretty much hidden here from the road. Maybe he didn't want to be found, you figure that out. "
"Who lives in this area?" Cho says, not liking the remark that the Sheriff said.
We got a few farmers out here, the closes one is George Fuller, he has a good size farm, a few herd of cattle. George pretty much keeps to himself, he and his wife Ellen."
"We need to take a look at his farm and the others." He and the other agents walk away.
George is in the living room of his house watching TV, his wife is sitting in a chair by him doing some knitting. They hear cars drive up and stop in their driveway. George gets up and goes to the window and looks out. He looks over at his wife.
"You keep your mouth shut….you understand?" His wife nods her head in agreement. George goes to the door and opens it and goes out.
Cho see's George coming over and he walks over to him.
"I'm Agent Cho, and I'm looking for an agent of ours that was seen in this area." Show the picture of Jane.
"Haven't seen any strangers around, been too busy getting my crops in."
"May we take a look around?" Cho says his voice saying he is going to do anyway.
Cho sends some men out to the barn others to look in the house. Meanwhile up in the attic of the house, Jane is chained up to the rafters of the house. His arms are chained up so he can't move and his body is raised up so he can't hit his legs against anything. He has duct tape over his mouth. He is dressed in a pair of jeans and a white, dirty t-shirt, and sweat is coming off his face from the hot attic. He hears Cho's voice and he tries to make a noise, but he knows it will not be heard.
Sorry for all the problems I had putting up chpt. 3….More on Monday.
