"Oh my gosh, Cassie!" Jessica cried as she practically sprinted towards her daughter.
"What's wrong with her? Where was she? Can I touch her?" She said almost hysterically.
"You can touch her. She's been heavily sedated. The doctor's say she will sleep it off. She's a bit dehydrated and she has some hypothermia from lying on a cold cement floor for a few hours. The IV is to help hydrate her and the oxygen is helping improve her vitals. They were a little off from the dehydration and hypothermia. The doctors say she will be fine." Kensi replied.
Jessica sat on the edge of the bed, tears streaming down her face, as she gently caressed her daughter's small face.
"Can I stay with her? Can she hear me? Can I talk to her?"
"Yes you can stay and talk to her. I don't know if she can hear you, but I'm sure it won't hurt."
"Thank-you" She said to the people who had recovered her daughter.
"That was Deeks. Mrs. Coverman and her daughter have been reunited at the hospital." Callen said.
"How's the girl doing?"
"She's still unconscious, but the doctors say she'll be fine."
"You think these two are going to break with routine? According to the video surveillance Deeks and Kensi found at the bakery, over there, the night guard never hangs around. He drops off the supplies and then leaves." Callen inquired.
"That means "night guard" is breaking with routine. He's been here for 45 minutes now. Most of it sitting on that park bench."
"Just a minute I've got a call from Eric." Callen said as he answered his cell phone.
"Yea…yea…okay. Find anything in the computer files you downloaded. Okay…thanks."
"Remember where we believed the perps parked their car?"
"Yea, in front of the Walker's home."
"You know how along the curb there is usually some dirt, sand, dust. General road grim that just tends to collect there."
"Yea"
"LAPD forensic guys found some tire imprints there. They e-mailed the photos over to our OPS centre. Nell matched them to the tires on our perp's van. She used the surveillance videos we found to isolate the tires and then do the comparison."
"They find anything in the computer files they downloaded?"
"He and Nell are just starting to sort through them. He said to give them another 20 minutes at least."
"It's 4:30 now. How much longer do you think before these two pack up? I doubt they are going to wait till 7:30." Sam said.
"Me neither. I doubt "Night Guard" over there is planning on sitting on that park bench for the next two and a half hours."
Eric and Nell sat in the OPs centre scanning through the files from the suspect's computer.
"I think we better get Hetty up here again." Eric said as he reached for the inter office phone.
"Should I set up a conference call with the team?"
"Yea, they need to hear this."
"They need to hear what?" Hetty asked as she once again seemed to materialize out of thin air.
"I'll tell you in a moment, as soon as the team are all on line." Eric replied as he handed Hetty a head set.
"Callen and I are both here. What's up?"
"I'm here." Kensi said.
"I'm here." Deeks stated.