Where is everyone? I just started my day as an analyst at Boston Police Department and was promoted to the Homicide Department. I have heard a lot about Detective Rizzoli. I am impressed with her direct findings to end the cases.
The Boston Police Department was swarmed with the police officers and detectives. Only the noise was deafening in the lobby when the recruit came in for her first day. She met up with the front desk to have her new ID badge and smiled at the police officer who was on duty. It happened to be Nina Holidays.
Nina was a black woman who just transferred from Chicago, Illinois, and wanted the scene to change for herself. Her last case was the worst one Nina worked in the Chicago Police Department. She felt like she blamed herself, but it wasn't her fault when it happened.
So, she was led by the police officer to show her up to the Homicide Department for her meeting with Lieutenant Cavanaugh. Nina nodded to him with thanks and knocked on the door. Lieutenant Cavanaugh voiced her to come in and looked up at her on another side of the door.
"You must be Nina Holidays from Chicago. I have heard a lot about you and the last case you worked on. I'm sorry for your loss."
"Thank you, Lieutenant Cavanaugh," Nina replied quickly as she formed a smile.
"Now, we met, and I am going to ask you some questions before we go there."
"Sounds good."
"Do you prefer to work outside of the field or stay inside and do some dirty work?"
"Since my last case, I decided to make, and I prefer to stay inside since the case. Do you mind?" Nina explained.
"No problem. No questions asked."
Nina nodded with a smile. Lieutenant Cavanaugh got up and proceeded to show her around in the Homicide Department. They walked through the hallway from his office. The police officers were still swarmed with the case files. Some argued about things that went to chaos. Nina was surprised that she was in for a special one because it's still the man's world in the police station. It was sporadic to see one woman in the same building.
"Here is your desk over there." Lieutenant Cavanaugh pointed to the desk piled up with the case files near the BRIC, and it is positioned by three desks on Nina's left side. She nodded to herself that she would set it up everything on her desk but asked him.
"Who are they in this department?"
"You will meet the Detectives, and you will report to the Sergeant before me daily. The detectives are Jane Rizzoli and Barold Frost. The sergeant will be Vince Korsak. They are the best team for the Homicide Department. I am proud of them. So, let me catch Rizzoli." Lieutenant Cavanaugh noticed Frankie Rizzoli coming in from the elevator through the window and hollered.
"Rizzoli!" Frankie heard his last name being called and whipped his head to find the voice until his eyes spotted him inside the room. He waved his hand to him before coming in to meet them. Nina was baffled that Frankie looked so handsome in his police uniform and tried to be cool but failed at attempting that attitude. She just happened to blurt it out in front of them and felt humiliated.
"Hi!" Frankie sheepishly jumped at the sound of the female voice before looking at her with a crooked grin. Lieutenant Cavanaugh cleared his throat to get their attention and continued.
"Rizzoli, have you heard from your sister yet?"
"None of that. I tried to reach her at home and cell phone even though I kindly reached Maura's home too. Ma is still worried about her. I am too. Do you hear from Korsak and Frost?"
"Didn't get them but to the voicemail. Can you ask someone to find the tracking locations if they can find them?" Frankie suggested with his eyebrows raised. Lieutenant Cavanaugh took some time to think about the suggestion from the police officer and looked at Nina.
"I introduce you, Frankie, to Nina Holidays. She just transferred from the Chicago Police Department, so she has some skills in the technology room, so can you show her in BRIC? See if she can find them on the tracking?"
"Sure, I will be glad to start on my first day." Nina smiled before looking at Frankie for getting ready. Frankie nodded before gesturing her to go on first. Lieutenant Cavanuagh held Frankie for a moment and whispered.
"Will you keep me in a loop? I don't want the brass to pressure me more for missing our detectives.'
'No problem, Boss.' Frankie nodded before following Nina to the BRIC and greeted some people inside the glass room. Lieutenant Cavanuagh sighed while watching them in BRIC and went back to his office for some phone calls.
Frankie was sitting behind the desk while watching on the screens on the wall. Some already left for the lunch break. He was worried about his older sister and others that went missing for few days. It was unusual. Frankie sighed before looking at Nina, who worked on a different case from another police officer for drug trafficking. They hadn't found them yet, but Frankie knew that something was going on with the latest issue.
Nina just was done with the case and turned it into the police officer to bring it up to the department. She looked back at Frankie, who was still staring at the screens that happened on the timeline when the detectives and Maura left in the early morning. It was paused at the screen. But Frankie and Nina didn't see Elizabeth and Colin in the timeline as they vanished in the air.
Frankie knew that Jane was on the road trip to Virginia to see Paddy Doyle since the last text he got from her. Again, he felt something that was not right in the timeline and decided to take over the next steps.
"Can you bring it up for the tracking on their phones?"
"Sure." Nina nodded before going ahead to type in some numbers, and the screens went filtered through the cell phones that Maura and Jane owned. Korsak and Frost were included in the filtered screen too.
But the problem was that the phones were unfound with the trace from the cell tower. It was the very smartest thing to do but not wise enough. Frankie and Nina were clueless that the phones were dumped in somewhere since Jane and others left. Colin was very fast to grab their cell phones before arriving in Boston and went on the road trip to the old warehouse outside the city.
Only Colin and Elizabeth knew about the cellphones were stashed away to be unfounded with the extended time. It alerted Frankie and Nina to find the cellphone that was located near the airport in Virginia. It baffled them.
"Wait a minute; the cell phones were in Virginia? Jane and others just returned from the FBI a few days ago. Can you bring up the video surveillance at both airports - Virginia and Logan Airport?" Frankie asked.
"Coming up. There is the video footage. Check it out." It showed the SUV burning out with the fires, and gasoline cans were shown too. But they didn't see Jane and others. Nina worked out to find the video footage from Logan Airport and found the crew running to the SUV. Frankie saw Jane's face in concern. Maura was silent. Frost and Korsak were discussing with Colin about the trip.
"Can you zoom in on the license plate on the SUV?"
"No problem." Nina nodded before zooming on the license plate and typing up in the search for the license plate. There were no records of the license plate. She was confused and continued.
"There is no record of the license plate."
"It means it is fake. So, can you track that SUV en route?"
"Wait a minute, it was on en route to here," Nina replied before she went to double-check on the routes from the airport route to several ways that the license plate took the detectives and medical examiner out after their arrivals.
"Right, what were they doing in here in the early morning? I am sure that something is up." Frankie was figuring it out in his head before looking at the screen where Jane was shown. Nina was perplexed with their entrances into the morgue doors, which she saw on the video footage and cleared her throat.
"Frankie, check it out. They used the morgue doors to enter. Korsak and Frost went to the bullpen from the elevators. One was missing. It's Jane."
"What were they doing in the bullpen? Can you find the angles inside the bullpen?"
"I'm trying. Frankie, do you mind finding the cameras in the bullpen? It would be helpful if you see with your eyes around in there." Nina pointed out to the homicide department before looking at Frankie. The said man looked back over his shoulder to stare at the bullpen where Korsak and Frost came in in the early morning. He nodded before doing his part to search for the cameras in the bullpen.
Nina continued to work on the search of the morgue cameras inside and found three cameras. One is in the hallway to the elevators, another one is in the lab, and one is outside the morgue doors. It was difficult to track Maura around inside the morgue, but there were no possible sources to identify Maura inside the office or the morgue. Unfortunately, Nina couldn't find anything visible and identify the chaos from the inside of the morgue.
Frankie frowned when he walked on each inch of the bullpen and looked above the ceiling's corners. His frustration caused him to feel sad because the three detectives and medical examiner went missing. Frankie didn't want to tell his mother about Jane gone out, even others, but the concerns went off the point.
The police officer came in with the file and found Frankie spiraling himself around in the bullpen. It looked odd when Frankie did it. He cleared his throat to get Frankie's attention and waved his hand with the file folder.
"Hey!" Frankie heard him and turned around quickly.
"I have a folder for Detective Jane Rizzoli. Where is she?"
"I don't know where she was going. But you've been here before I joined the forces."
"Yes, I've been here before Jane became the detective. So, what's up?"
"Great, did you see any security cameras around in here? I'm looking for it."
"Oh ah. Check over there. It is in the book on the top of the file cabinet. It is easy to overlook." The police officer pointed at the file cabinet behind Frost's desk. Frankie went there and searched for the books on the top. He found the thick book - encyclopedia. It had a camera inside the pages.
"Got it."
"Frankie, there are another two cameras. One is on the coffee table over there. Another one in the corner near the Lieutenant's office. It is on the file cabinets too."
"Thanks for your help, Officer Smith."
Smith smiled at him before handing the folder to him and left the bullpen. Frankie gathered the cameras from the locations that Smith informed him. He brought it to the control room and put it on the desk.
Nina looked up when Frankie brought the cameras. She was surprised that there were three smallest cameras but not one. Frankie nodded at her before reading inside the folder that Smith gave him for Jane's case. It was an old case from the other night. Frankie was confused because he was there that night, and he had the folder now with him. He wanted to ask Smith for the case that jane Rizzoli requested but omitted it.
"Can you download those cameras to the footage if they were here on other night?"
"Sure, let me open the cameras. It has a storage card - micro sd. It is helpful to store everything in it." Nina explained while opening the camera's back and ejected the memory card. She put it on the reader and typed it quickly. It popped up in the system, and there was a video. Frankie was thrilled that they found some footage.
The first camera was in the book behind Frost's desk. It angled by two men that showed the faces. The two men were Korsak and Frost. They raided their desks quickly, and Jane came in with the trash bag to gather the pieces of evidence that they worked for few cases. Frost used the rubbing alcohol with the lint cloth to wipe on the dry erase board.
Korsak opened the drawers to gather his things out and conversed with Frost to gather some bullets from the basement. Jane did the same thing as Korsak did. Frost left the bullpen to get some weapons and ammunition for their safety. Jane looked around in the bullpen and took some things down from Frost's desk and hers. Korsak nodded at her for getting out of the bullpen and met Frost halfway.
On the second camera, it was a different angle from the Lieutenant's office. It was seen by Korsak running to the elevators. Jane was behind him with the trash bags that she held. Jane's desk viewed the third camera, and the detectives were seen raiding their things on the desks and wiping every piece of evidence they touched.
Frankie and Nina were baffled by the angles of the cameras that showed the detective wiping everything. She looked at Frankie and asked.
"What did they do?"
"I don't know. Um, can you use the audio when Korsak spoke to Frost?"
"Sure. Let me see." Nina nodded before typing up on some codes to get the audio, but there was a little piece that Korsak spoke. It was about the basement that Frost needed to gather for their weapons. Frost nodded while giving a trash bag to Jane and ran back to the elevators to pick the things.
Frankie was still confused at their angles in the footages, but his thinking went off the point. He looked at the bullpen where the detectives wiped everything. Some evidence was removed already, but why the detectives wiped everything that they worked on.
"Can you playback before they arrived in the bullpen?"
"Absolutely." Nina nodded before clicking on the timeline that went back to the few hours behind. She played it at the beginning by using the book camera angle. They watched for few minutes until it took a second by a blink in the bullpen. Frankie was perplexed by a blink of light and asked Nina that they can play slower.
She did it by using the slow speed on the footage. They watched it again and caught the blink. It was a blur of a shadow into the bullpen but didn't show the real face. It showed the figure and didn't authenticate the feminine or masculine identity. It disappointed Frankie again. Nina downloaded the footage to the external storage and knew that it would be stolen if they found it.
"Frankie, I am going to wipe the footage from those cameras. I just downloaded it to the external storage that no one found it. You never know it would get stolen anytime. Can you inform Lieutenant Cavanaugh about it? I don't want some trouble with him."
"Sure. Good idea. Make two copies. One for safe and the other with Lieutenant Cavanaugh. Hey, can you find the footage where Frost went after the raid of the bullpen?" Frankie thought of an idea. Nina put an index finger at him before searching for another camera in the basement for few minutes. The downloaded footage was processing through external storage.
"I found the footage. It is in the corner of the evidence room?" Nina asked.
"No, it is the door of the equipment room. We have weapons, bullets, bombs, etc., that we could use for every case as necessary. Oh shit, I have to go over there to find something that went missing." Frankie snapped his fingers.
"You can go ahead. I am going to download this footage and erase everything from that camera. I will bring a copy to Lieutenant." Nina told him before Frankie patted her shoulder with a smile before running toward the elevators. She was relieved that they found everything and made two copies quickly, then erased every evidence for a good reason.
Frankie passed the morgue and labs. He almost bumped Kent and sent him an apology. Kent waved his hand by dismissing his apology before going inside the lab for more tests. Susie watched the scene where Frankie went and shrugged to herself. She went to work on the difficulties that Kent requested. Kent took place in Maura's absence to work on the bodies.
Facing the door, Frankie opened it and entered the room. The light went automatically on. It showed the weapons, ammunition, and everything else. He carefully stepped around in the room and took an in-depth look through the weapons and everything. It gave him a spot by noticing few things missed.
Frankie went to the desk and raided the things for information. He found it in the binder and skimmed through the list. The list was the information of every weapon, ammunition, etc. Frankie walked to the weapons room and looked at the wall that displayed the guns, rifles, small weapons, and fancy weapons.
It paled Frankie when he saw two rifles and four AR-15 weapons that went missing. He went back to the desk to retrieve the paper, so he wrote it down for missing weapons and numbers to identify the weapons. Frankie went back to the weapon room and looked for more evidence. There were 10 grenade bombs, 20 smoke bombs, and 10 dynamite bombs in a five-pack.
Frankie knew that Frost could not carry those bombs with his arms, but he looked for a bag that went missing. It showed him a piece of evidence that Frost took three large duffel bags by the storage closet. Frankie suspected that Frost packed those weapons and bombs. Two duffel bags consisted of the weapons and bombs separately. But the last bag went to the ammunition room.
He went next door and looked at the glass cabinets. The ammunition went missing too. Two of the glass cabinets were empty. The glass cabinet was for the rifles and AR-15 ammunition. Frankie wrote it down by identifying the cabinets. Another closet was for their Glock 19 weapons.
Frankie suspected that Korsak helped Frost to get everything they needed. He was still investigating in the weapon rooms, but his thoughts went to the armor equipment room. It led him to the armor room where the police officers carry the kevlar vest and everything else to protect their bodies from being harmed.
It proved to Frankie that Jane took four of each kevlar vests, full-body bulletproof armor suits, weapons gloves, RTS Tactical Thunder Riot Protection Suit, and five small ammo bags with the belt. Frankie sighed before writing everything on the paper and went back upstairs.
Nina was gathering the external storage and ensured that she wiped everything on the police system. She knew that the FBI, CIA, and others above the top of the law enforcement would find it, but it helped her to erase the data and destroy it without the reversal of retrieving the data. It was a smart plan. She heard the elevator and looked at Frankie with his worries.
It took her to finish it and meet him in the hallway. Frankie nodded at her and explained with a paper. Nina was worried before grabbing Frankie to the privacy so the cameras won't get them with audio.
"Not here. We need to get Lieutenant Cavanuagh outside without the cameras and audio in here." Nina told him before nodding at the door. They faced the office of Lieutenant Cavanaugh. Frankie agreed with her and knocked on the door. They heard the voice behind the door.
"Come in."
Nina and Frankie came in with their serious look. Lieutenant Cavanaugh was in the middle of doing the paperwork and looked up at his detectives. It caused him to perplex by their faces.
"We need you outside. I mean, out of Boston." Frankie said.
"Yes, you need to know something, but we cannot show you here. They will find it. Can you leave right away?" Nina asked.
"Ok. Go. Frankie, text me the location by using the burner phones. I will sign you both off on the case. I will take care of it." Lieutenant Cavanaugh informed them by nodding off to the door. Frankie and Nina concurred before leaving the office.
Lieutenant Cavanaugh sent the voicemail to the Brass about the detectives signing off on the case as he assigned and gathered to ensure that Frankie and Nina signed off. He made the case up by avoiding the tracking on them. It showed himself out by the door and informed others that he would be not here for few days and assigned to another lieutenant to take over the department in his absence.
A few hours later, Frankie and Nina were waiting outside by the abandoned warehouse. They ensured their safety by watching out for the intruders and Lieutenant Cavanaugh's arrival. They wore casual clothes so they wouldn't be shown as the police officer's uniforms.
Lieutenant Cavanaugh's arrival showed that he showed up in casual clothes with a Boston Red Sox hat. He waved his hand when he came into the warehouse. Frankie was relieved that he found the place without tracing him on the route and gestured Nina to go first.
"Hi. We found the pieces of evidence. I have a copy for you. Another copy is in a safe place so someone cannot find it." Nina showed the external storage - a hardware-encrypted USB flash drive.
"It is encrypted. They cannot have access without a code. I put it a code for a safety reason. So, here you have it."
"What's inside it, Holidays?" Lieutenant Cavanaugh retrieved it from her and asked.
"The footage. It showed my sister, Korsak, and Frost. Three different angles. But we saw the shadow before they arrived. It was a blur of a figure. We can't do anything to clear the blur." Frankie explained before Nina spoke up.
"Yes, they wiped everything. I mean, their traces. Jane held the trash bag that they threw everything inside it. I am sure that they burned it."
"Yeah, also. I have all the information about the weapons room. That's the one Frost went after Korsak informed him to gather what they needed." Frankie explained while handing the paper to his boss. Lieutenant Cavanaugh took a paper from him and read thoroughly, but he whipped up to look at him.
"They took AR-15, rifles, ammunition, and full-body gears!?"
"What?" Nina asked before being astonished at Frankie's commentary. Frankie nodded.
"Yes, they took everything. I found everything in the weapon room. But I wonder why they took everything with them and wiped the traces of theirs?"
"Good question, Frankie. But hey, remember about the phones?" Nina brought it up in a conversation.
"Yeah, they were dumped near the airport in Virginia. After the phones were dumped, they are unfounded with the cell towers nearby." Frankie said. Lieutenant Cavanaugh nodded while he absorbed new information.
"I was told by Korsak that they were needed to see the FBI back in Quantico."
"What did they need them for?" Frankie was curious to ask the question before looking at Nina.
"Patrick Doyle." Lieutenant Cavanaugh informed Frankie before looking at him.
"What's the story?" Nina inquired.
"He escaped the federal prison. They went to find some proof that Patrick escaped. So, I got nothing from them. I mean, I haven't heard from them since they got back."
"It is tracing that they went missing after visiting in Quantico. I think that something was going on with the Doyle disappearance." Nina quipped. Frankie nodded to agree with her before continued to discuss the issue.
"So, what can I do? I mean, my Ma. Tommy? What can I tell them? I can't tell them that Jane is missing and Maura too. Well, the four of them are missing." Frankie said. Lieutenant Cavanaugh sighed before nodding.
"Well, keep it low. I think that the FBI and others are snooping around as I suspected. I sent a coded message to the Brass. Frankie, keep yourself out. Consider it as an undercover assignment. Nina, you are assigned with him since you are working on this case. I signed you both off on the official investigation, and no one knows that you are actually working on it. Send me through the burner phones and use your CI as necessary. Just keep yourself low. Clear?"
"Yes, sir." Frankie and Nina nodded in unison. Lieutenant Cavanaugh sent them a small smile before leaving the warehouse on his own.
"Take care of each other."
Frankie and Nina waved their hands at him before going to the unarmed car. They dumped their cars near the city's border and used the rental car to drive toward the trip. It left Frankie to wonder about their disappearance. He was very concerned about the four of them that went missing and prayed to the heavens that they would be safe and sound. Nina took them away from the warehouse and kept themselves in the dark.