Home Invasion Page #3

it's my wife's book club night tonight.

The bridge broke down.

Couldn't get AI, so I called Chacko.

He's over there.

- How long's he been stuck?

- Twenty, 25 minutes.

Last time it happened,

AI was sleeping one off.

WOMAN [ON RADIO]:

This is dispatch, Chacko for Sheriff Kane.

Give it here.

Hey, Chacko, what's the deal?

CHACKO:
Sheriff, power's out.

The main control lead

is cut clean through.

- Two of the fuses are missing.

- What? Where the hell's AI?

- It's his shift, isn't it?

- He's not here.

You know AI, he'd never walk off the job.

How the hell does a thing

like this happen anyway?

It sure don't look like an accident.

How long's it gonna take to fix?

I can jerry-rig something,

but it'll be 45 to an hour.

- Maybe a little longer.

- All right, well, you keep me posted.

[III]

Mike, I've got the sheriff.

- Hello?

KANE:
Sheriff Kane here.

Hi, this is Mike Hewitt, Home Security.

I am, uh, following up

on an armed home invasion call.

What armed home invasion call?

To 911. My client said

that she called it in.

Nothing came through to me.

What's the situation?

Uh, there's a gunshot victim

who's probably dead.

I have the mother and child

inside the residence.

I have them on the line now.

Can you get units there?

Two-eight-one-one Oakwood Drive.

Oakwood Drive is out on the peninsula.

We've got the bridges stuck

and it's high tide.

There's no way on or off for an hour.

You have no responders

on the peninsula?

I got a deputy moved over there

a couple of months ago.

I'll try to track him down.

I'd appreciate

if we could have real-time updates.

- You'll get them.

- Keep him on the line.

You find Halligan,

tell him we got a 246 in progress.

- All right?

- Yes, sheriff.

[GRUNTS]

What a mess.

MAN [ON RADIO]:

And he was talking about these rocks...

that mysteriously move

across the desert floor...

and I got to thinking about it...

"...and I thought, we", to me,

the obvious cause would be that...

BESS:

Hey. Listen, are you okay?

If you need me to take over, Mike,

just say the word.

No. I know this place,

I've been there as a kid.

I remember...

Yes.

There's the swing bridge.

We need a helicopter.

Burlington.

See if Burlington has a P.D. bird.

They must have a patrol boat as well.

- MIKE [ON PHONE]: Chloe.

- Mike.

- Where are the police?

- I talked to them, they're on their way.

- What's going on?

- It's okay.

- How long?

- They're almost there.

[III]

They're blind outside.

[DEVICE WHIRRING]

[STATIC CRACKLING OVER PHONE]

- Hello?

- Chloe?

- Hello?

- What?

- I lost him.

- Chloe?

[SIGHS]

- What's going on?

- Lost them.

I always get a signal down here.

[FOOTSTEPS]

It's them.

[III]

Okay. Talk to me, Mike.

What are you trying to do?

MIKE:
They only got the cameras

they could find.

They killed them, but...

[TYPES, THEN MONITOR BEEPS]

BESS:
Platinum.

Whoever built this house

went a long way to protect it.

- We have faces.

- Yeah.

HEFLIN:
Twenty-two-fifty.

Gives us less than an hour.

Find them.

Hey.

Oh, Knox...

try not to hurt anyone.

I wouldn't dream of it.

We're looking at 10 to 15

to sweep the place.

You take the upstairs and the basement,

I'll cover the main floor.

[DETECTORS BEEPING]

- Neighbors?

- I can't get ahold of them.

- It's the storm. The lines are busy or dead.

- Cell phones?

All phone companies report problems

with the nearby tower.

Signals aren't going through, but the

outage is centered around that address.

They're probably jamming.

Give me the sheriff.

Hello?

DEPUTY:
Sheriff.

KANE:
Find Halligan?

He's having dinner

with the in-laws in Lincoln.

- Damn it.

WOMAN:
Sheriff, this is Dispatch.

Yeah, this is Kane. Go ahead.

I'm transferring Mike Hewitt

from Home Security.

Put him through.

I've lost the caller.

I think they're using a jamming device.

They probably cut the landlines.

Any update on the bridge?

We're having a wiring problem

at the control booth.

- We're doing our best.

- I'd like updates, okay?

Yeah, I'll keep you posted.

[BELL RINGING]

Let me ask you something.

What are the chances AI is missing,

the bridge is broken...

the same night there's a home invasion

out on the peninsula?

- Not very high.

- Not very high.

I'm calling for backup.

[KNOX HUMMING]

[KNOX HUMMING]

[GROANS]

Gross.

Don't say a word N'

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[HUMMING]

[CAN RATTLING]

[TYPING]

I'll send you shots from the camera.

See if you can identify them.

- I've never done that before.

- Load them into the NCIC.

[III]

Someone's coming.

Let's go for it. Now!

GO, go! go'

Shh.

[WHISPERING] What about you?

[WHISPERING] I'll be okay.

Jesus Christ.

[BEEPS]

[RUSTLING]

[GASPS]

[DETECTOR BEEPING]

[DETECTOR BEEPING RAPIDLY]

[VASE SHATTERS]

KNOX:

Come out, come out, wherever you are...

Oh, yeah, there she is.

Bingo.

[DOOR CLOSES]

- Oh, my God. Are you okay?

- Yeah.

- Actually, I have an idea.

- What is it?

- Your headset.

- Yeah. It's not just for games.

You can also use it to VOIP too.

- What?

- Voice Over IP. Internet phone.

They cut our phone.

I'm sure they cut the Wi-Fi too.

- I'm not talking about our Wi-Fi.

- What?

Mr. Johnson uses his dog's name

as the password.

That's like asking someone to hack in.

Okay, come on.

[SIGHS]

Mike?

- What do you have?

- Okay.

Heflin Piers, wanted for armed robbery,

racketeering and extortion.

He was involved

in the museum heist in Paris.

- Looks like all high-end stuff.

- The girl?

Uh, that's Victoria Knox.

She was arrested for the first time

at 16 for grand theft auto.

She was tried as an adult.

There was a gun involved.

Apparently her and Heflin are a thing.

- What about the third?

- That's Jason Astor.

Former EOD in the Gulf War,

dishonorably discharged...

and suspected in a number of crimes.

Remember that bombing

in Chicago a few years back?

- Yeah, that was him?

- Allegedly.

BESS:
Nice work.

[DETECTOR BEEPING]

KNOX:
Heflin.

They're gone. There's no one here.

Oh, they're here, all right. Somewhere.

You're just not looking hard enough.

KNOX:
I looked everywhere.

- ASTOR:
I got it.

- Where?

[DEVICE BEEPS]

[ASTOR SIGHS]

Right...

Right there.

[III]

You taking the piss, mate?

- That's blank as canvas.

- You lack imagination.

How long will this last?

I don't know. If it starts beeping,

you got about 20 minutes until it's dead.

Okay, what's the number?

[RINGING]

- Liz. Home Security Systems.

- Yeah. It's Chloe Paige.

It's her.

- MIKE [ON PHONE]: Chloe?

- Mike.

Mike, we're calling from

a Wi-Fi connection. Can you hear us?

- I can hear you all right. How are you?

- Somebody almost just found us.

We're hiding. They're looking everywhere.

We gotta get out of here.

What do we do, Mike?

ASTOR:
There she is.

Oh... Hm.

One lock entry, 12 locking steel bolts.

Just like we thought.

Forty-five minutes.

You got half an hour.

I want her and the boy found.

Don't disappoint me, love.

[III]

One of the intruders called you by name.

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