Chapter Twenty-One Summary

Inside the MCC, Agent Harris begins to lose control of his temper. There is no visual sign of Aiden and the flashing GPS tracking unit only shows him moving rapidly through the streets. They slowly begin to realize he has been forced to take a city bus by the kidnappers and adjust their strategy on-the-fly.

Brajansky and Hoag search the outside perimeter of the abandoned warehouse where Brajansky has located Meg's hostage note. They decide to split up and search inside the warehouse, hoping to find another clue or even Meg herself. They take out their guns and slowly, silent proceed, losing sight of one another in the gloomy darkness.

Inside her windowless closet room where she is being held, Meg worries that her actions, though logical at the time, have only further jeopardized her tenuous status with her captors. She...