Chapter 3
The building was clear in twenty minutes with no sight of McNally or the heroin. They found Cruz trapped and had her out soon enough. Sam was furious at the sight of her.
"What on earth were you doing here before the bust? At best you could have blown the bust and now one of our own is missing."
"Sam, I, uh, umm."
"Save it Cruz. If you have no information then you can't help me."
Sam raced back to the squad car to talk to Frank.
"Andy isn't here. Do we have any information on a secondary location? This obviously isn't where the heroin is. I'm betting that we'll find Andy when we find the heroin."
"I already sent Gail and Dov back to the station to see if they could get anything else out of Ray. We'll know something soon enough."
"That's not soon enough Frank!" Sam exploded. "They have Andy!"
"Sam, I understand but we need to stay calm. We have no idea where Andy is. Once we have a lead, you can head up the operation."
Andy finally awoke to find herself tied up by the ankles and wrists. She had duct tape over her mouth and had been stripped of her radio. She was bouncing around in the trunk of a car. She managed to kick out both taillights before the car slammed on the brakes throwing her into deeper into the trunk of the car, knocking her unconscious again.
"Sam we just got a call from the station. Nothing from Ray, but someone called about ten minutes ago saying that they had been driving on fourth street when the taillights on the car in front of them were kicked out. The car almost immediately stopped after the taillights had been kicked. It's not a huge lead, but it's something. We have an address."
Sam jumped in his car immediately and yelled at Traci to get in. He heard Frank yell at him to wait for back up when they got there, but he knew he wouldn't. He also knew that Frank wouldn't expect him to wait, regardless of what he said. They sped off.
Meanwhile, the man who had attacked Andy had stopped at the distributing center. He couldn't believe there were two cops sniffing around the warehouse the day of the delivery. He had immediately called his boss and told him to change the location of the delivery. Now the heroin was being dropped off at the distributing center of Thompson Paper. Thompson was long dead and the business hadn't survived after his death. The building was all but condemned when his boss found it. So now, he had to deal with the unconscious cop in his trunk instead of focusing on the delivery. He could have just left her unconscious outside the warehouse, but he thought he might need her as a bargaining chip if the cops were onto their heroin ring. His boss soon came out to help him drag the cop inside.
"Travis, what is this? I asked you to go and prep the warehouse for the delivery. You fail to do that and come back with a cop?"
"But boss, I caught her and her partner snooping around the warehouse. The coppers were obviously tipped off about the location. What was I supposed to do?"
"Partner?! You never said anything about a partner on the phone!"
"Well, that's because she got stuck in the building. She fell through the window of the space behind the temporary wall, so I knew she wouldn't be getting out without some help. And she didn't see me. She fell through the window before she could even turn around."
"Alright well let's get this one inside and out of sight. The last thing we want Ernie to think is that we're working with the cops."
By the time Travis had Officer McNally tied up, she started waking up.
"Well hello sweetheart. You're a pretty little thing aren't you?"
All Andy could do was wiggle and mumble due to the restraints on her wrists and ankles, and the duct tape over her mouth.
"Don't worry, I'll be keeping you all to myself for right now," Travis said as he landed a punch square on Andy's jaw.
Andy winced as the pain soared through her. Travis connected again; this time with her shoulder. He treated her as his personal punching bag for what seemed like forever to Andy. She kept telling herself that she was strong and would somehow get out of here alive. It was all she could do. She had passed out from the pain by the time Travis pulled out his knife. He drove it into her abdomen three times before he was satisfied. Andy's nerve endings screamed as the knife went into her. Again, and again until she lost consciousness.
Finally, Travis decided that she'd had enough and he went in search of his boss, who he found chatting with Ernie. The delivery had gone off without a hitch and without any of Officer McNally's friends showing up. That's what he thought at least, until he heard slamming doors from all around. In an instant they were surrounded.