On a street in the City, Saturday afternoon The danger of the situation with Smith the gang threatening both of them had sunk in Laura's mind - in fact so well that she had barely had any sleep since the close call on Thursday. Since then she had been sure not to be out and about on her own very much. She drove to work and straight back home, and if she had to make detours for necessary shopping, she kept it at a minimum. She was absolutely sure that the gang wanted revenge and had only gotten more fuel to the fire from her and Smith fighting back. She was constantly thinking of going to the authorities, but she couldn't make herself to do it because of Smith. She still trusted him, and she did not want to get him in any further trouble.
On Saturday afternoon she left the hospital, but since she was facing a weekend in the safety of her own home and definitely not outside in the open, she decided to stop to get a bottle of wine and rent a movie. She parked as close as she could - on the opposite side of the street - and hurried into the store to get the wine. When she re-emerged to cross the street back to her car with the red wine bottle in hand, she noticed a black van with darkened glasses driving towards her down the street at an alarming speed. The van pulled over abruptly right in front of her - and Laura knew that what she had been fearing was coming true. Immediately she turned to run back into the store, but the men inside the van were too fast. The side doors slid open, two men stepped outside to grab Laura, and right when she inhaled to scream, a moist piece of cloth was pressed on her mouth and nose. The chemical worked quickly and made the men's work a lot easier. The red wine bottle dropped from Laura's hand and smashed on the icy pavement, and the men lifted the limp unconscious woman into the back of the van and drove away. The glass shards and freezing red wine on the street were the only signs of something being out of place. The van had come and gone too fast for anyone to really pay attention to it, or to the fact that one blond woman that had been there before was now missing.