p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"2/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Panic seized the Lieutenant; he could feel his heart jumping up into his chest. In his panic, he lost control of his hands and dropped both cones onto the hot pavement. He didn't even notice what he had done, as his thoughts were now swimming in his head like a tsunami…thoughts of his poor Dog…. taken by a stranger in those precious few moments when he wasn't looking. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""DOG?! DOG!" Columbo shouted in a panic. He saw his raincoat on the ground…it had been completely undisturbed. So, whoever had taken Dog, was after him, and only him. They had no interest in his possessions. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""DOG!" Columbo shouted again, trying not to make his fear so obvious to the strangers around him, but he was failing miserably./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Under any other circumstance, he would have gone to the police straight away and filed a report. But that was the problem…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He emWAS/em the Police./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Running as fast as he could, he located the nearest telephone box and practically jumped inside, the booth trembling as he did./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"His hands shook as he dialed, and he could barely stutter out his words to the operator while he fumbled with the phone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"His first instinct was to call the first person he would ever turn to when he needed help…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hello?" Came his Wife's voice on the other end of the line./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hi, it's me. Someone's taken Dog."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Taken? Are you sure?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I don't know for sure…. but my gut is telling me he was kidnapped, and my gut's never been wrong before."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Oh my god! But…who would want to steal him? Why would they do that? For ransom?!" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I don't know, but for now, I need you to do me a favour. I need you to call all of our neighbours, call everyone that you know. If there's some…small chance that he wasn't kidnapped, then he may have wandered off back home, so I need you to ask our neighbours to call you if they see him, or any dog that looks like him, I don't care…but they call you, and then you call me, understand?" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Yes, of course. I'll call them right away." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Thank you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""We'll find him, Frank. I love you…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I love you too."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Columbo set the phone down on the receiver with a trembling hand, while using the other one to wipe the sweat from his forehead. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He then exited the booth and ran across the park again, towards the pole where he had tied the leash. There, he would do what he did best…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Look for clues./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"This wasn't going to be much of a day off after all, but he would look all day and all night if he had to, he would do anything and everything, until his Dog was safe, and back with him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The Lieutenant actually found himself in a rare moment of holding back a sob, which quickly turned to the red throbbing of anger. He was not quick to anger by nature, but this? This was empersonal./em Someone had targeted a member of his family, and he did not take that lightly. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Whoever had taken his dog was going to be very sorry, and if they dared hurt his dog…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"They would be even sorrier./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Panic seized the Lieutenant; he could feel his heart jumping up into his chest. In his panic, he lost control of his hands and dropped both cones onto the hot pavement. He didn't even notice what he had done, as his thoughts were now swimming in his head like a tsunami…thoughts of his poor Dog…. taken by a stranger in those precious few moments when he wasn't looking. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""DOG?! DOG!" Columbo shouted in a panic. He saw his raincoat on the ground…it had been completely undisturbed. So, whoever had taken Dog, was after him, and only him. They had no interest in his possessions. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""DOG!" Columbo shouted again, trying not to make his fear so obvious to the strangers around him, but he was failing miserably./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Under any other circumstance, he would have gone to the police straight away and filed a report. But that was the problem…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He emWAS/em the Police./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Running as fast as he could, he located the nearest telephone box and practically jumped inside, the booth trembling as he did./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"His hands shook as he dialed, and he could barely stutter out his words to the operator while he fumbled with the phone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"His first instinct was to call the first person he would ever turn to when he needed help…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hello?" Came his Wife's voice on the other end of the line./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Hi, it's me. Someone's taken Dog."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Taken? Are you sure?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I don't know for sure…. but my gut is telling me he was kidnapped, and my gut's never been wrong before."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Oh my god! But…who would want to steal him? Why would they do that? For ransom?!" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I don't know, but for now, I need you to do me a favour. I need you to call all of our neighbours, call everyone that you know. If there's some…small chance that he wasn't kidnapped, then he may have wandered off back home, so I need you to ask our neighbours to call you if they see him, or any dog that looks like him, I don't care…but they call you, and then you call me, understand?" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Yes, of course. I'll call them right away." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""Thank you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""We'll find him, Frank. I love you…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;""I love you too."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Columbo set the phone down on the receiver with a trembling hand, while using the other one to wipe the sweat from his forehead. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"He then exited the booth and ran across the park again, towards the pole where he had tied the leash. There, he would do what he did best…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Look for clues./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"This wasn't going to be much of a day off after all, but he would look all day and all night if he had to, he would do anything and everything, until his Dog was safe, and back with him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"The Lieutenant actually found himself in a rare moment of holding back a sob, which quickly turned to the red throbbing of anger. He was not quick to anger by nature, but this? This was empersonal./em Someone had targeted a member of his family, and he did not take that lightly. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"Whoever had taken his dog was going to be very sorry, and if they dared hurt his dog…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"They would be even sorrier./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" /span/p