This time there had been no drugs, no fancy method to render him unconscious besides a powerful punch that had sent him to the world of comfortable oblivion long enough that he found himself in the trunk of the Galaxie by the time he came back to.
With his hands and legs tied up, he felt powerless, desperate.
Not long after, the car dipped down a bit, signaling that a driver had taken up his spot, before the powerful V8 started up and the Galaxie began its slow ascend out of the low-level garage.
By now Mike would have an APB out on the car, that much was sure.
It was his hope that amongst the thousands of cars that travelled down the streets of San Francisco every day, this one would catch a police officer's attention.
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The streets were clogged with traffic as they headed across town, the lights and sirens doing painfully little to part the sea of cars that slowed them down.
Daley's address came back as a rowhouse along Magnolia, suspiciously close to all the recent doll drops as well as Steve's kidnapping.
And while Mike's senses may have been clouded when it came to Albert Hoskins' connection to the startling disappearance, he knew that they were on the right track this time around, hopefully about to break a disturbing case wide open and save his partner's life.
"The house is coming up on the next road…", Hassejian announced from the driver's seat and turned off the lights and sirens, following their plan to approach the residence discreetly.
Mike glanced to his right, seeing Haley in the car behind them follow suit, the detective's expression unreadable this time around.
The sad thing was, Mike knew why, and he hated every part of that notion.
Swallowing the overbearing worry about his partner's safety once again, he pursed his lips, preparing his mind for everything that might await them, trying to remain cautiously optimistic for the lack of any alternatives he dared to consider, then waited as Hassejian took a sideroad, then turned left on Magnolia.
"His house is half a block down on the right…", the detective announced hesitantly, his eyes drifting off to the right while Mike's remained on the road when something caught his attention.
"The Galaxie! There it is!"