Molly attempts to not break the communicator. Lanshu steps back from Molly. She asks him who would have kidnapped Todd. She thinks perhaps Gwyatzi might have some enemies, Lanshu doesn't think so.
Sudo reminds Molly that they're an organized crime ring. Determines it's not the Flannigans. Molly is going to get the group together to figure out what to do.
Meanwhile Todd is unharmed. Still in the van. Drove for about 45 minutes to an hour. The van goes dark, and stops. The doors open and Todd is now bound, feet together and arms by his side, and pick him up like the child he is, and takes him out.
Todd finds himself in a warehouse filled with boxes. He looks at the boxes and sees stamps on them that say KB. He gets taken into the plain office and placed on a chair. There's one lady in the office and three men. The men in the room are tall, stoic, caucasian. Todd notices that two of the men in the room seem to be related.
There's some maps in the room, star charts, files, a communication screen. There's also 6 or 7 small screens for security, showing doors. Todd notices that four of the doors being monitored doesn't look like warehouse doors. There is a sign on a wall that he sees has a string of pearls on it. He also notices that there's a storage unit, hidden compartment behind the people in the room. There also seems to be a section of wall where there's papers overlapping on it and one part where there is a line of papers down instead of haphazardly.
Fig guy comes back and puts a glass of water on the table for Todd.
Suit guy asks Todd what his name is.
Todd says nothing.
He says that he won't hurt Todd, but he was the easiest member of the party to get to and they need information. Once they get it, which is for their survival, Todd is free to go.
Todd tells the man his name.
Suit guy asks if Todd is working with the ship that used to be run by Kai. He mentions that there's locked doors on the ship.
Todd doesn't know anything about locked doors.
They ask if Kai is dead.
Todd says yep, pretty dead.
The man asks about the hired guys they now have working with them and what their capacity is.
Todd says he doesn't really know much about them. He gets asked what he's doing on this planet.
Todd says to fuel up and get odd jobs.
"Do you know what planet you came from before this planet?"
"No, but it was a fair distance away."
"Do you know people who have interacted with your party members other than the Suns?"
"Yes there was one family we saw. I don't know their names."
"Was it a nice house?"
"Yes. Nicer part of town."
"And it was after that that the Suns came to you?"
"Yes"
"Do you know what they asked?"
Todd rolls for a lie check.
"No."
He is believed. Mwahaha
Suit guy recaps the situation.
"Why did you go to Suntients by yourself?"
"I wasn't"
"Effectively."
"Because I couldn't go with the others."
"You were bored on the ship?" asked the Suit Guy.
"Did you talk to my friend behind you (Fig Guy)?"
Todd glares at fig guy, who doesn't look at Todd but turns to Suit Guy and tells him that "the boy likes plants" in a Russian accent.
Suit guy tells Todd that he told them what they need to know, so they will return him near the docks of the ship for him to get back without them getting caught.
Suit and Fig guys talk in another language, and Suit Guy says that they will give Todd a cutting from their tree.
Fig guy picks Todd up again and carries him out. Todd glares at him. They go back to the van and fig guy holds him down. People get in the van and it takes off.
Todd notices the warehouse smells like Higgins moon. Specifically the part with the buckets.
Todd asks fig guy for his name.
He answers with 'No'.
Back at the farm Molly made Wren and Kale get out of their happy places and armed so that they can go attack whenever they figure out who took Todd. Both of them are less than pleased.
The van stops, Todd is taken out and untried, left with the plant as it drives away. Todd looks for distinguishing features on the van and just sees that it's a white van with dark windows.
He notices a toll booth guy who is blatantly ignoring him and he goes up to him to talk. Todd knocks on the window, and the response is that the man moves away from the window.
Todd starts carrying the plant to the ship. He gets sad, puts the plant down, debates leaving it, picks it up and keeps going.
A vehicle goes by. Todd looks at it. It screeches to a stop, and Gwaitzai asks the small child if he's okay. Seifu gets out and checks that Todd is actually okay, then puts Todd into the van and they drive to the Calamity.
Seifu contacts the ship to tell them that she has Todd and Gwaitzai with her. Molly opens the door with the gun. Seifu tells her that Gwaitzai has to go off planet with them as he's useless and can't stay on the planet. She leaves.
Gwaitzai looks like a scared dog. Molly asks if Todd is okay. He responds with the fact that he's okay now.
Laitzu takes Gwaitzai off. Sudo Kent asks Todd what he can remember. He mentions the 45ish minute trip, the warehouse had boxes with KB on them. He mentions the smell to Molly, specifically how it was like the buckets. Molly just looks at him.
He tells about the four people in the room, and how they looked related. He mentions the security system, but stops as he's not sure about Sudo Kent.
Molly prompts him to continue. He mentions the doors, how they reminded him of the fancy house they had dined in.
Molly knows that the Bellvues have brothels with fancy doors, and one of them is called the Dutchess's Pearls.
Todd tells them about the questioning.
Todd mentions the safe. And the odd paper wall.
Molly asks Sudo Kent about whether or not enemies of the Suns have a habit of kidnapping small children. Molly asks him point blank if Sudo Kent knows who kidnapped Todd.
Kale interjects that they should ignore this kidnapping and move on as Jon Snow was more important. Molly looks disturbed but everyone else seems fine with this. Molly mentions that she is taking Lazy Pig and going to go talk to bloody Bo Peep as everyone else botched the job last time. Wren has no idea what she is talking about as she doesn't remember the botched job.
Molly tells the others to research the Bellevue's. She gets in disguise and leaves the ship.
Just then the doorbell rings! Bum bum buuuuum.
It's Xwishang! Yaaaay! He's got two buddies with him. Sudo Kent checks them out. Wren checks out the door and sees Kale and his buddy going into the engine room and follows, wanting to make sure that the engine is in one piece.
Kale goes to add in a piece that Xwishang had brought with him, and breaks his arm as Wren comes in the room, by dropping the coil on himself. Freaks out and goes to get Sudo Kent. She tells him a bit of what is happening, mentioning blood, he sends Wren to the med room to turn on the lights. She does so.
Sudo Kent leaves the two men with Gwaitsai and goes to get Kale. He looks at his arm and says it's broken. Kale agrees. They walk to the med bay together. Sudo Kent puts gauze on the wound. They decide to take the van to the Suntians. Wren asks if everyone is going and questions that plan. She goes to tell Molly the plan, Molly freaks out. Wren tells her that they are going to Suntians to get healed. She says she will meet them there.
The others get in the van.
Wren and Molly talk. She gets instructions to take money, med kit, and lock the doors and make sure that the ship is locked up.
Kale doesn't pass out on the way.
Gwaitsai stays in the van and gets glared at. Kale gets fixed up by the lady at Suntients. Laoche meets Molly at the door and points her up the stairs. She goes up and makes sure that Kale is okay. They all get into the van and Molly asks what the bloody hell happened. Kale tells his version of the story, Wren interjects and mentions that Kale was in the engine room instead of researching the Bellevues. They get back to the ship and everything is okay.
Notes by Ash.
