Hunting down a madman

February 17, 2003

Bo: Vega -- Antonio --

Antonio: Commissioner, what's up?

Bo: I want you to go up to the lodge, check on Cristian and Natalie.

Antonio: Why? What's going on?

Bo: Well, Cristian called a while ago, but we had a bad connection.

Antonio: Was he upset? Something wrong?

Bo: I don't know. I could barely even hear him. So I sent a uniform up there to check.

Antonio: And what did he say?

Bo: That's the problem. He hasn't called back in.

Antonio: All right, I'm on my way.

Bo: Hey, Naylor?

Antonio: Is this the officer you sent to check on my brother?

Bo: Yeah, yeah. What happened?

Antonio: Have you seen my brother?

Ofc. Naylor: Someone clocked me as soon as I got there.

Bo: Who?

Ofc. Naylor: I don't know. They hit me from behind, disabled my radio --

Antonio: Have you seen Natalie and my brother?

Ofc. Naylor: It looked like they cleared out before I got there.

Antonio: Oh, great. Laurence got to them.

Bo: What time were you up there?

Ofc. Naylor: Around noon, 12:30.

Bo: Laurence was here. I was questioning him. Brennan I want you to get Naylor over to the E.R., Ok? Get him checked out. You take care of yourself, Bob.

Antonio: Well, if it -- if it wasn't Laurence, then who took off with Cristian and Natalie?

Bo: Manning.

Antonio: What? Why?

Bo: Manning was here earlier. He was asking about Natalie, said Viki wanted him to check on Natalie.

Antonio: But why -- why clock Naylor?

Bo: Why does manning do half the things that he does? The thing is, it didn't sit right with me because he was just too desperate to find Natalie.

[Phone rings]

Bo: Buchanan.

Jessica: Uncle Bo, it it's -- it's Jessica.

Bo: Why are you whispering?

Jessica: I'm with Starr. I don't want to scare her.

Bo: What's going on?

Jessica: Starr told me something that you should know -- something about Mitch Laurence.

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Jessica: That was fast.

Bo: Hi, jess. Thanks for calling. We need anything on Laurence that we can get.

Jessica: And now Todd's in the middle of this.

Bo: Yeah, it doesn't surprise me. I knew the guy was up to something. He was all antsy to find Natalie. Just couldn't figure out what it was.

Jessica: Natalie's ok, right?

Bo: Jess, we're not really sure.

[Jessica sighs]

Antonio: You ok?

Jessica: Yeah, I just get this -- kind of this weird feeling about Natalie. I call it this twin thing.

Bo: You've had that before.

Jessica: It's almost like I know when Natalie's in trouble.

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Jessica: So now it all makes sense. That's why Todd was calling me, asking about my mother.

Bo: She knows where Natalie is.

Jessica: And then when he found out that she was out of town, he freaked. And that's why he was asking about Natalie.

Antonio: Which is why Mitch wants Blair -- so that Todd would bring him Natalie.

Jessica: Starr said something about him calling Blair his bargaining chip.

Bo: No wonder Todd's hell-bent on finding Natalie.

Jessica: But he doesn't know where they are, right? He can't get to Natalie and Cristian?

Bo: He must've followed the cop that I sent up there to check on them.

Antonio: Yeah, hit him over the head and knocked him out.

Bo: Yeah, but then where did he take her, you know? It wasn't Laurence's house because I've got that place staked out.

Antonio: I just hope they're all right.

Bo: I'm going to call the station, see if they got any more leads. [Bo leaves]

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