Endlessly [Chicago PD] (1)

Thirty Balloons ✔️

"Female, white, jut got out of surgery." Burgess replied.

"I heared female white knocked you around pretty good." Lindsay said to Atwater.

"Whatever she was on gave her the strength of ten men." Atwater exclaimed.

"No ID. All she had on her was this plane ticket." Burgess said and handed me the ticket. "She landed at O'Hare this morning from Cabo San Lucas."

"Just how much cocaine does she have on her?" I asked.

"No,not on her. Inside her. 30 balloons in her stomach." Burgess revealed. What the hell?

*****

We went into the woman's hospital room,there a doctor explained the situation.

"Normally, when cops drag screamers in here, we just give them a haldol cocktail and send them into detox, but she started convulsing, and I knew right away this was different." The Doctor said.

"Welcome to Chicago, distribution center of the midwest." I said.

"We removed 29 condoms full of cocaine, though she swallowed 30. One broke open and started to dissolve into her stomach. The drug leaked into her bloodstream, causing psychosis, so I ordered emergency surgery." The Doctor explained. "Never ceases to amaze me what people will do for money."

"Well, sometimes, people don't feel like they have a choice." Erin sighed.

"I tested the residue on the broken balloon. It's 89% pure.That's the highest grade I've ever seen." The Doctor said.

"All these must be 50k street value." I said.

"Easy." Voight said.

"So what do we think?" Erin asked. "Cartel's getting smart recruiting all-American types?"

"They're full of air pockets. That's why they busted. It's amateur hour. Cartel wouldn't be this careless." I exclaimed as I inspected the balloons.

"We need to question her. How soon till she's conscious?" Hank asked.

"Two,maybe three hours." The Doctor replied.

"All right, have Jin contact the TSA at O'Hare. See if we can get an ID on this girl." Hank said.

*****

"All right, so our girl in the E.R. is Amber Morris. Amber and her three friends here are all undergrads at Central Chicago University. This is who we're looking for." Jay explained the case to the whole team back at the district.

"We checked Amber's Facebook page. There's pictures of them living it up in Cabo,  but not just from this trip. Amber's been down there twice in the last three months." I added.

"First time, she did the run herself. This time, she recruited friends." Antonio said.

"We gotta assume all these girls are mules and ingested the same type of balloons packed with coke." Voight exclaimed.

"You guys, I ran down those girls' addresses. All three live on campus." Jin said.

"We gotta move." Antonio said and everyone stood up.