Olivia can honestly say she has never been more scared in her life; her heat is beating so fast and she can barely comprehend the situation. She wasn't even this scared when Lewis had her. The concept of her son being missing, out there with someone else who is doing God's knows what to him is something she can't quite comprehend. As, a 19-year veteran of SVU she knows all too well what could happen. Her girlfriend, and detective Amanda can tell that the brunette is in some distress when she looks into her office. So, she walks in her to check on her. The older woman tells her the one thing she never expected to hear. Olivia stutters out "Noah's missing. Someone took him. Sheila just called."
Amanda's heart stopped. Her and Olivia have been dating for almost a year now and Noah had asked last week if he could call her mama, a name he has yet to use. She loves that little boy just as much as she loves Jesse. Amanda, Olivia, Noah, and Jesse have formed their own little family over the past year. They spend most of their nights together their children have grown into siblings right before her eyes. On the outside she is doing her best to hold her composure. Amanda knows she can't break down in Olivia's office. They've done a great a great job over the past year keeping their relationship a secret. On the inside she's panicking. Her mind filled with a deluge of bad thoughts, of all the worst-case scenarios. Olivia cups her cheek looking into her eyes. "I need you to stay calm Amanda, I know you're just as scared as I am. Dodds is going to pull me off this case and I need you to find him. Take the lead on the case Manda. We will find him. I know you can find him."
Amanda's blue eyes water, and she nods her head. She does her best to blink the tears out of her blue eyes before following Liv, Carisi, and Fin out of the squad room. They head to the mall where Noah was last seen.
When they get there it is pure chaos, and Olivia is trying to shut down the mall, while the rest of them show Noah's picture to people. Sheila is upset and apologizing for what happened to Noah. Amanda feels helpless being in this situation. No one prepares you for it being your own kid who is missing. She has to find him, for herself and for Olivia. It's frustrating because the few leads they get go nowhere.
Olivia follows an upset Sheila back to her apartment to see if Noah went there letting Amanda know she is leaving. The brunette's upset, it's killing her to now knowing where her son is, but she trusts Amanda and her detectives to find her son. When they find security footage of Noah walking holding hands with a strange man. Amanda knows he's not wearing the same clothes he had left the apartment in that morning, but she is reluctant to say so. Knowing Olivia will realize it too and not knowing how to tell Fin and Carisi that fact without telling them she was the one helping him get dressed this morning. She is even more alarmed finding out Noah and this man got onto a bus going God knows where.
Amanda is doing her best to hide how scared she is, trying to be confident they'll find him. But she can't help how her mind keeps wandering to the worst-case scenario. How is she going to explain all this to Jesse, knowing if Noah, and this man got onto a bus, the chances of finding Noah are lower. But, she knows Olivia is counting on her; she needs to do her best to stay calm and focused. They find the bus and Noah was never on it. They had just chased down another lead that is getting them nowhere. The blonde is getting more and more frustrated.
Fin and Carisi find leads that doesn't provide any comfort for either women. In fact, it makes them both even more worried. Noah is with some man, a man who brought a change of clothes, and a car seat, who had been planning this for who knows how long, watching Noah. Nothing prepares her though for the news that Sheila was the one who planned this whole thing. They trusted this woman with their son, gave her all the access she wanted, and all they did was give her the opportunity to take him. How could she have been this stupid, Amanda had never trusted Sheila around Noah from the start. Olivia wanted to give Noah access to the family she never had. The younger woman hadn't fought hard against, not thinking it was her place to say anything. But nothing can assuage her guilt now.
