“Well before we get excited about going anywhere, who’s
going to make these calls?” Rossi looked around at the team.

Korsak raised his hand, “I will, he may respond a little
better to a man, no offense,” he said to JJ.

“None taken”

“So, once we know for sure, we need to head out immediately,
if the unsub, whether its Rodriguez or not, gets through the night, we know
that we’ll have another woman taken sometime tomorrow night.” Rossi was stating
the obvious but he wanted to impress upon them the urgency of what was at
stake.

“Understood Dave, Emily call the wife and see if she would
be willing to speak with you.” Hotch looked at them all and sat down. “And now
Detective Korsak, where would you recommend we order some food from or should
we just go out.”

“How about we find out if we’re heading out to interview
anyone first, that way, we can all eat.”

“Agreed”

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“Yo Rodriguez..”

“Maldonado…” the
detective looked at the two young men in the holding cell.

“Rodriguez man…you getting us out of here or what?
Belligerent, Maldonado looked at his brother for morale support. Rodriguez was
a big guy, Maldonado was no slouch, but the detective had weight and height on
him.

“What did they ask you?
Who was it?” Rodriguez wanted to know if that ***** had questioned them.

“Nothing man they just asked when we last saw you, you know
and …and it was the black guy and the ***** that came with him to pick us up.”

The other woman, she must be one of the agents.  Looking at Maldonado’s forehead, he saw the
cut and bruise on his forehead, “She do that?”

Looking at his feet, Maldonado shuffled, embarrassed “yeah…”

“So?,” he said smoothly “what did you say to them?”

“We told them we saw you last night man like you said to”
Maldonado looked down the hallway and realized they were alone.

“Yo man, did you?…Did you kill them girls?” groaning he
looked at his brother, “Sergio man, shut the ***** up!”

“No, no, its okay,” Rodriguez stepped closer to the cell,
“you can ask, I mean you guys covered for me right?”

“Yeah man, course we did!” Looking at his brother, he
breathed a sigh of relief; Rodriguez didn’t seem too pissed at him.  The lights flickered in the hallway and he
looked from his brother to Rodriguez.
Rodriguez was looking at his watch and smiling.