As they waited impatiently for the three agents to reach the department store, Rossi turned to Hotch. "One thing is bothering me," he said.
"What?" Hotch knew the senior agent usually had a valid point.
"Where did the money come from?" Rossi pointed out. "Christine had to have paid her bus fare somehow, and she's buying all these clothes. We didn't see her picking anyone's pocket, so - "
"Let me check something," Hotch dialed his phone, waited, and then began speaking.
"I have a question," he began the conversation. "Have you thoroughly checked the office area in the barn? I need to know if there was any cash kept there."
"Okay, Thanks!" Hotch closed up his phone. "I was right," he told Rossi. "The storage center manager told me George Wyatt paid in cash every month. It appears he didn't trust banks. He was keeping a very large amount of cash in a safe in his office. And, according to the SWAT team leader, the safe is standing open and there appears to be some money missing."
"Do they know how much?" Reid asked quietly.
"They will need to get an accountant in there but, as a rough estimate, about $10,000," Hotch responded.
"That will last her quite a while," Rossi commented.
Christine wasn't anywhere to be found in the department store. However, after checking the security tapes, Garcia was able to identify the sales woman in the Lingerie Department who had helped her. When Blake asked, the sales women smiled. "Of course I remember her," the woman exclaimed. "She said she needed 'everything' and I got her 'everything'. When we were done, she asked where she could get a suitcase. I reminded her that she needed one small enough for her to handle in her condition, and then sent her down the street to Discount City."
A view of what appeared to be a pair of woman's feet, followed closely by a rolling suitcase, moving across the top of the screen from an ATM close to Discount City was the last the BAU team saw of Christine.