Danny's black car zooms down the street with sirens blaring as they make their way to one of the rougher parts of the city. Danny drives roughly up and into a beaten down townhouse. The black paint is almost completely worn off from the decaying dark wood. Cob webs are the primary decoration on the porch. Danny and Cassie walk up to the condemned property on the uneven sidewalk.
"I think it's unlikely anyone would live in such a dump." Cassie said.
"I don't know, it kind of reminds me of my first apartment." Danny said jokingly. Cassie laughed and said,
"I'll add that to the list of reasons I don't ever want to see your apartment."
"It's a nice place now." he protested.
"Sure." she said doubtingly.
She took a step on the shaky wooden boards to the patio and it felt like she was going to slip. She warns her partner to be careful of the unsafe patio. She takes another step and a board flips up and almost whacks her and Danny on the head. The sudden flip of the board startled Cassie and made her bump into Danny. She apologizes and they continue to enter the rickety old house as the wooden boards creak under their feet on the porch. Danny knocks on the door only to have it open on the second knock. He just stares at the door as it almost falls off it's hinges.
"I guess a lock is out of the question."
"Come on." Cassie said she took a step onto the floor covered with dust and dirt. Danny stopped her when he heard something odd.
"Hang on, do you hear something?" he asked. She listened carefully to what sounded like a smoke alarm.
"What's wrong with a smoke alarm with bad batteries? This whole place could use new batteries."
"No that beep is too frequent for a smoke alarm." he thought carefully for a second and then grabbed Cassie's arm and ran out of the house.
"What?" she yelled as she reluctantly ran along with him.
"It's a bomb!" he yelled. Cassie picked up her pace and they jumped off the old porch and covered their heads as they landed in the dirt as the bomb inside the house detonated. The backyard of the house caught small fires in different places of the yard barely covered with grass. Debris from the house covered the ground and landed on the two detectives. The old house is in place, but the wood is now completely black and smoke fills the area with a sickening aroma. A few minutes pass before the two lift their heads up slowly from the black debris and begin to brush everything off of them. The siren of a firetruck is heard in the distance.
"Cassie, are you okay?" Danny asked nervously. Cassie pushes away more debris and sits up.
"Yeah I'm alright. What about you?"
"Yeah." Danny said brushing some dirt and debris off his head. A firetruck rushes up to the house a few minutes later and firemen deploy from the truck.
"We got two down!" one of them yells.
"We're not down, we're okay." Cassie said standing up.
"Are you sure? You should really be checked out."
"Fine, but we don't need to go to the hospital." Danny said. One of the firemen took them aside and talked to them about what just happened. A blue sedan rolls up to the house and a tall silvered hair man steps out with another tall man wearing dark sunglasses. He takes the sunglasses off as he gets out of the sedan to walk up to Danny and Cassie.
"Agents." Danny said as they walked up.
"How did you know that?" the older one asked.
"I know feds when I see them."
"Agent DiNozzo, and this is Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the man in charge."
"Please don't tell me you're taking this case from us."
"No we're not."
"I thought that's why we came here boss."
"You had the find. What's next?" Gibbs asked.
"We need to call our captain." Cassie said.
"Of course." DiNozzo says as he approaches Cassie closer. He gives her a charming smile and raises his eyebrows at her. Suddenly a black suburban drives up to the condemned house as well.
"It's a law enforcement party! Why weren't we invited?"
"We're here Mota." Cassie said. Danny shrugged as the people in the black suburban got out of the van. An authoritative tall man wearing dark sunglasses and dark brown hair walks up to them and takes the glasses off to reveal the turmoil hiding in his dark eyes when he steps in front of them.
"I'm SSA Aaron Hotchner of the Behavioral Analysis Unit in the FBI. This is my team and we're here to help with the efforts to find the missing girl."
"Detective Danny Mota, Major Crimes DC Metro. This is my partner Detective Cassie Leland."
"How long has she been missing now?"
"She was taken around eight this morning so about three hours now." Cassie said.
"We have to get inside this guy's head." a tall and stalky guy with messy hair said to Agent Hotchner. While the behavioral guys talked to Danny and Cassie, Agent DiNozzo from NCIS caught a glimpse of a particular piece of debris. He walked over to it and picked it up. Agent Gibbs walked up to him to see what he found.
"What do you got DiNozzo?" he asked. Tony looked at Gibbs then back at the paper. In big black block letters the paper read, "Bad things happen at night."
"Do you mind if we follow you to the station?" Agent Hotchner asked Danny and Cassie.
"Please be our guest." Danny said somewhat sarcastically. Agent Hotchner looked at Danny as he walked to the car. Danny does not like when the FBI or other agencies get involved in cases because they tend to take over. Cassie got in the passenger seat of the car and Danny lead the law enforcement officers to the Metropolitan station house. Danny looks irritated as he leads them to the house and Cassie looks at him.
"Danny, it's not a turf war. They're here to help."
"I just don't like when they tell us what to do. I take orders from two people only; Dalton and the Chief."
"Don't forget me." Cassie said jokingly. Danny looked at her then kept his gaze on the road. Everyone piled into the metro station to discuss the case and how to find Foster Knowles. The two agents from NCIS have case files on their target. Chief Bellamy is in charge of leading everyone in the right direction.
"Okay people this is who we believe has kidnapped thirteen year old Kelsey Strayer. His name is Foster Knowles."
"Formerly a Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps, he served one tour in Afghanistan in 09 and was dishonorably discharged in 2011." Agent Gibbs said.
"Evidently he has a problem with authority, he punched his CO over a dispute." Agent DiNozzo said.
"We'll need all the files you have on this guy, so we can start on the profile."
"Well if that's all you need from the extremely good looking professionals of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, we'll be going." Tony said. He pushed the door and realized the door had to be pulled, so he pulled it open and smiled charmingly at the crowd. Gibbs rolled his eyes at Tony and gave Chief Bellamy his card.
"If you need anything else." Gibbs said as he followed Tony out. After the agents from NCIS left, the BAU collaborated with the major crimes unit to create a profile on the evil man. Time was ticking for Kelsey.
