Chapter 4
When Traci and Sam arrived at the address Frank had given them they jumped out and circled the perimeter. Through an open window they could hear the delivery going down. He called Frank and told him that this was the place. Sam was anxious to get inside, but Traci was hesitant.
"I think we need to wait for back up," Traci said. There's too many doors for us to cover and if there's more than two of them in there we're going to be outnumbered."
Sam hated waiting but had to agree with her. He pleaded to Andy, "Please, be okay. Hang on, we're coming."
Five minutes later Frank, and everyone else arrived and Sam told them the plan. They would surround the building and cover every exit. Then, on Sam's call, they would all charge in and cuff whoever they could find.
With everyone in place, Sam gave the go ahead and charged inside. He was surprised to only find three men inside, but the bags of heroin on the table told him that they had been right. Oliver, Frank, and Collins cuffed the men and took them out to the squad cars while Sam, Traci, and the other rookies began frantically searching for Andy. Sam was the one to find her. She was in a little storage closet in the basement. She was tied to a chair and Sam could already see the bruises starting to form on her face. Her eyes were glazed over and she didn't respond when he said her name. It took Sam a moment to notice the bloodstains on her abdomen. He lifted up her shirt and saw three distinct stab wounds. Sam wasn't a doctor, but they looked deep. She needed help and she needed it now.
Traci burst in at that point and radioed in that they needed a stretcher in the basement. The paramedics came in and loaded Andy onto the stretcher. She was clutching Sam's hand the whole time. He rode with her all the way to the hospital and into the ER. The doctors determined that she didn't need surgery, but she had lost a lot of blood and needed to stay overnight. The doctor told Sam that she needed some rest and would be fine in a few hours.
Sam sat in a chair in the corner of her room until she woke up, three hours later. Andy's eyes lit up when she saw him. She tried to speak but Sam silenced her. He walked over to her and wrapped her in a hug.
"I thought I lost you," he whispered in her ear.
"I'm so glad you're here," she whispered back.
"Andy, Traci's waiting outside. We need to get your statement."
"Right my statement. Okay here goes."
She recalled all of the events of the day starting with that morning in parade. When Andy got to the part about Cruz insisting on going to the warehouse early, Traci stopped her. She asked Andy to repeat what she had just told her.
"We got the address from you, and we were about ten minutes out. At this point it was probably 1:15. With the bust set for 2:00 I suggested we just hang out and wait until time to head over there. But Cruz wanted to go early and scope it out. And when we got there she noticed some milk crates that could stack up and reach a window. She was out of the car and running over there before I had even turned the ignition off. By the time I reached her, she had the crates stacked so I gave her a lift up. That was when someone pulled me from behind and Marlo fell into the window. The guy knocked me unconscious and that's all I remember until when I came to in the car and kicked the taillights out."
"Sam, are you hearing what I'm hearing?"
"Yeah," Sam grumbled. "I'll call Frank and get him over here."