Chapter
One:
Chapter
One:
The Steak Out
"Matt turn up the heat" Emily said putting the binoculars up to her eyes.
"No, its hot enough in this car" Matt said "see any movement"
"No nothing. How long has it been?" Emily asked leaning over and turning up the heat herself
"Twelve hours since we got the anonymous tip that Isabella was here" Matt answered turning down the heat. Emily and Matt had been working on a kidnapping of eleven year old Isabella Sanchez for the past week in cooperation with missing persons. The media had been exploiting the tragic story of how Isabella had been grabbed from her suburbs home while she, her eight year old brother Adrian, and five year old sister Ella were playing in their very own backyard, her mother swearing she only turned her back for a second and Isabella was gone. No one seemed to have seen anything and the whole community had gone into a panic. Since the case was of great importance and there was not enough man power, the director had asked Cheryl to loan out some of her agents to help out with the search for Isabella. The family was excluded as suspects leaving the FBI with no suspects and that's the way it was until twelve hours ago when a tip came to the FBI hotline placing Isabella at this location. Emily and Matt got sent out to steak it out. "We should just burst down the door" Frank's voice came over the intercom. He and Duff were covering the other entrance on the east side of the building.
"It was a tip, no actually concrete evidence means no warrant plus if she is actually in there and we go charging in, the kidnaper could hurt her. Not to mention we still have no idea who has her." Emily said looking through her binoculars again.
"That is the dumbest thing I've heard, we have Intel that she is in there. God knows what kind of sicko has her. “Matt said in an irritated voice
"We need a warrant, I don't make the rules" Emily said
"You just follow them" Matt said
"What's that suppose to mean?" Emily asked
"Now, now, no lover quarrels at work" Duff said over the intercom
"Shut up Duff" Matt and Emily said at the same time "Lia, did you have any luck figuring out who made the tip?" Emily asked
"Nope, he was using a high voice scrambler which is weird for a tip call. Right now I have nothing; I can't even tell you if the caller was male or female. He is good but I'm better. I'll crack it" Lia said
"Let us know" Matt said
"Will do" Lia replied
"Here take look out for a second" Emily said passing Matt the binoculars as she turned herself around in the seat so her back was facing the front window.
"What in the world are you doing?" Matt question
"Getting my sweater since someone refuses to turn on the heat" Emily said grabbing her sweater from the back seat and pulling it on over her FBI vest.
"Don't be so over dramatic, it's LA" Matt said taking a quick look at Emily's butt
"It's also nearly 2 in the morning and no sun out" Emily said "You're supposed to be the look out" she said catching where Matt's eyes had wondered to.
"Funny" Matt said
"Are you going to stay look out?" Emily asked. Matt nodded his head. Emily turned around again and grabbed the laptop. She pulled up all the Intel they had gathered so far which was not much; she wanted to go over the information again. "What I don't get is how no one saw anything" Emily wondered out loud.
"And there was just something about the mother, she's hiding something" Frank said
"We've already excluded the family.” Matt said "get a new suspect"
"I don't know, the majority of kidnappings are done by family or people known by the family" Emily replied. "And I agree Frank, Mrs. Sanchez differently was hiding something, I don't think she was involved but she's not being straight with us either. If I could just have participated in the questioning instead of observing, I know I would have got more details"
"Let it go" Matt said "this is still missing persons jurisdiction, we're just tag alongs. Murphy and Johnson are the leads, accept it."
Emily rolled her eyes at Matt.
"I got movement on the west side" Matt said
"Wait and confirm girl is in pocket" Frank commanded
"I see two people, one could be a kid but from this angle I can't grantee it's Isabella" Matt said. Emily grabbed the extra binoculars and had a look "Frank, they're getting away, if we don't move, we can lose the only lead we have" Emily pleaded. Matt was right it was impossible to confirm if either person was Isabella but if there was a chance she was there, they had to move in.
"OK, move in but be careful, we will be right behind you" Frank commanded. With that, Matt and Emily got out of the car and started to approach the suspects.