Mess With Them, You Mess With Us (Chenford, Wopez ,Marper)

Part 6 - Mobilisation

Tim pulled into the station parking lot at the same time as Angela and Sergeant Grey. He jumped out, flung the door shut and marched over to them. "Any new leads?" He asked, anxiously, a seriously worried expression plastered across his face.

"Not yet, hopefully Nyla found something while we were out, let's go ask her." Angela replied, giving him a sympathetic half smile.

"God, I just can't believe this is happening, again." Tim remarked, slowly running his hands through his hair. The three of them walked quickly into the station; they were all extremely aware of how time-sensitive this was.

Nyla stood up and signalled them over to her when she saw them come in; they rushed over to her desk, hopeful that she found something concrete. "So I pretty much have confirmation that Lucy was targeted at the grocery store, look at the security footage." She let the video run for a few seconds, then paused it. "See? That's Lucy pulling in, right there. Then," she clicked play again, "three seconds later, the camera gets sprayed with spray paint, and so did the other one. That can't be a coincidence. I then ran the plates of every vehicle seen leaving the parking lot on a camera on the other side of the road, and approximately 4 minutes later, this car is seen speeding away. The plates are stolen, and they also don't match the car they're on. I think that could be our guy. The windows are blacked out so I can't see into the car, but I have a feeling Lucy could be in there." Hearing this, Tim felt a knot in his stomach start to grow, and he felt nauseous.

"You okay, Bradford?" Grey asked. "I need you focused on this. The only way we're going to find her, and Wesley and James, alive, is if you bring your A game. If you start getting distracted, you're wasting seconds you could be using to save her. Understood?"

"Yes, Sir." Tim, responded, shaking his head. "I'm gonna go down to the prison, and get a list of all Forcota and Mongolia's known associates and cellmates, see if any of them knew what their plans were. Surely they must've been cooking this plan up since before they got out, someone in there has to know what they were planning."

"Good, Harper, did you get any closer to figuring out what vehicle James might've been taken in? There might be some way of connecting the three vehicles to the location where they were stolen, it might give us something which leads us to the attackers, or the location they're holding Lucy, James and Wesley in."

"Not yet, but I did at least narrow down the location a little bit," she gestured to a red line she had digitally drawn on a map of Los Angeles, "the location has to be above this red line; Wesley's vehicle was seen driving North of the line, some of the cameras up that way were out, so I lost him, but the car would've been caught on a camera if they had circled back and come back down South, so it has to be up from here. It's not much to go on, but it's better than nothing." Nyla explained, letting out a frustrated sigh.

"Okay, start scrubbing every traffic cam in the area and follow Lucy's vehicle, try and see if you can figure out what direction she was headed in, it might help us narrow it down even further. I'll try and find the vehicle James is in." Grey responded, sitting down on a chair across from her, powering up the pc in front of him.

"I'll run a search for every warehouse, vacant factory, compound that might possibly be somewhere a criminal would hold hostages, above Harper's red line." Angela added. "Neither Forcota nor Mongola have any ties with anywhere besides Los Angeles so let's just hope they picked somewhere here; we'll never find them if they decided to hop on the freeway and flee the state." her eyes turned glossy and started to brim with tears, but she took a deep breath and started her search.

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Tim pulled up outside California State prison, hopped out and stormed up to the gates. He was greeted by the overnight warden; he had called on his way over to let them know he was coming. They got straight to it; he demanded a list of every known associate of both Forcota and Mongola, some of them were ruled out immediately as they had since been killed in prison, or transferred out of state. It narrowed down the list to about four inmates; Tim decided to start with a man called Fernandez Dashola.