After Cammy explained the situation to Marshall Ackerman of Volunteers for a Better Tomorrow, he said that he would prepare a crew to snatch Randall Larkin back from his kidnapper and then would stand by for a follow-up call telling him where the attorney and his captor might be found.
For long minutes, Jason was unable to locate the river-tossed Mercedes in the video archives. He went to cameras as far north as Slauson Avenue, near Bell Gardens, before he realized his error. He had stayed with the Los Angeles River channel, but the Rio Hondo, angling out of the northeast from El Monte, merged with the Los Angeles east of Downey and north of Hollydale.
He went to the junction of those two rivers and, moving back in video time, quickly found the sedan rafting down the Rio Hondo.
“You’re the bomb!” Cammy declared.
“Boom!” he said and laughed and began to track the S600 toward the point from which it had been launched on the waves.