Family Business

The War Room

Thursday May 30th Sternwood Hospitality and Financial Services 12.45am

Police lieutenant Paul O'Kelly set up his war room in the 14 seater boardroom. He is anxious, he knows he has to move fast. He is eager to find Gretchen McClure and her boyfriend. He knows to well the horrific statistic where an individual kidnapped by a family member doesn't survive greater than twenty four hours.

He is moving fast, he has to move fast. He has a police helicopter in the air, checkpoints set up on major routes around the city. He has reached out to state troopers and much to his annoyance the FBI but he has no choice, he needs their help.

Officer Kim a stocky twenty eight year old Asian American Police officer hands him the Human Resources file on Peter Beard "Here you go Lieutenant, he's listed two former Security Employers in Ohio, both firms exist and two written references".

Lieutenant O'Kelly, power reads through the references "Did HR here, check up on these numbers?"

Officer Kim nods "Holly Stewart says of course"

"What about the two firms" asks O'Kelly

"she thinks they would have been satisfied
with the details of the references provided".

O'Kelly senses something isn't right with Peter Beard "Let's contact these two firms in the morning"

"Have we being..." but he's interrupted by a knock on the door. It's Prudence's visibly shook sixty eight year old mother, dressed in a navy dress and red jacket, beside her, Prudence's father in a grey suit trousers and white formal shirt, the only time he has entered the office without a tie. The trousers as grey as the colour of his skin with fear.

"Any update Lieutenant" asks her father as he fights away his tears.

The Lieutenant looks up, "We have a chopper in the air, we've checkpoints set up, we've got a warrant to on Gretchen McClures home. Also we're checking with Lexus for transponders or GPS on Prudence's SUV. We're doing everything we can".

Her mother reaches out and clasps her trembling hands around his right hand "Lieutenant, the McClures, please, please find them, they are up to something, you have to find them!"

The Lieutenant purses his lips as he watches the tears roll down her eyes "We are getting a warrant signed off to search their home as we speak, we're going to interview family, employers anyone we can linked to them". He stops for a moment "Your daughter Rosamund has given us a list of relatives that Gretchen is close with, we will interview them too. Don't worry no stone will be left unturned".