Worst Nightmare, Part One: The Wounded
Synopsis:
By Peter Silvestro
After an evening at a bar, a young woman is walked home by a man she just met. At the door, he pulls a knife and forces her inside. A stranger pushes in after them, shoves the man out the window and cuffs him to the fire escape by an ankle with his head downward. He calmly instructs the woman to report that the West Side Rapist is hanging out at her apartment….
Richard Benson returns to the inner city headquarters of his organization, Justice Inc. were he offers crime victims their last hope for satisfaction. He walks past his team, denying questions about the rapist and enters his office. Staff member Josh leaves to follow up a tip on a teenage runaway but vanishes down at a pier. Soon a homeless man delivers a note demanding a one million dollar ransom for Josh’s safe return; it is signed, "Your Worst Nightmare." The attack on his teammate recalls Benson to the murder of his own family years ago, which left him the bitter force of vengeance he is…. Snapping into action, he assigns Nellie to study the case Josh was working on, Mac to examine the phone records to trace Josh’s movements, and Smitty to investigate the scene of his disappearance. He promises there will be hell to pay….