Frederick could not breathe. He could not think. All he could do was watch the video of Eleanor being tortured and wait for the deadline to pass. He showed the video to Detective Morrison and asked him what to do, but Morrison had no answers.
"We can try to locate her," Morrison said. "We can try to mount a rescue operation. But Frederick, we do not even know where she is or how many personnel the organization has guarding her. If we try a rescue and it fails, we might make things worse for Eleanor."
"So what do we do?" Frederick asked desperately. "Do we just surrender? Do we just give the organization what they want?"
"We need more time," Morrison said. "We need to figure out where they are holding Eleanor. We need to gather intelligence about what the organization is planning. And we
