The next morning, somewhere else...

"We have yet ANOTHER missing mammal case. A leopard, Rainforest District." A large bison spoke in front of a room of police officers. He slammed a folder down on his podium in frustration, "That's the fourth this month!"

A small gray bunny, Judy Hopps, sat attentively as he continued to discuss their priorities. He had given her parking duty yesterday and she was determined to prove herself by accomplishing something big today, regardless of his attitude.

Her ears flicked forward as she noticed the folder he had thrown on the podium. After he gave out today's assignments, (hers was parking duty again), he left it sitting there.

'I bet that folder has all the information I need!' Judy thought to herself.

Once everyone else had left the room for their duties, Judy crept back into the briefing room. She jumped easily onto the stool behind the podium and then onto the podium itself. She grabbed the folder, which was admittedly much too big for her, and waddled out of the room.

As nonchalantly as possible, she brought it to the room with a computer to access their data system. She pulled up all the information she could find under the name: Stephanie Stalkinew.

Judy scanned down the list of her information. She worked as a waitress aboard the... M.S. Scarvian... A riverboat that operated in the Rainforest District...

She searched online for the boat and found the website of the Rainforest District River Cruises. It had their whole cruise schedule online! The missing mammal report was filed, along with several general disturbances that required further investigation, yesterday night at 11:47 PM. The disturbances all happened at the harbor that the river cruise ended at.

Judy continued to search through the area for any more reports. She looked up and found traffic camera reports for the area in which it happened. She fast-forwarded to 11:30 PM.

Nothing seemed wrong though. It was just a normal rainy night. Stephanie was indeed there, she had just gotten off the cruise after some other animals. But Judy tensed as she watched the leopard fall to all fours. The leopard hissed and clawed at anyone in the vicinity, then, she raced out of view.

Judy frantically switched to another camera and sped to reach 11:30 PM again. This camera was pointed toward a fox placing packages into the back of an orange van. What was he up to? The fox then jogged and hopped into the passenger seat. A few moments later, the leopard was running up to and clawing at the passenger window. The van took off and the leopard pursued it, out of view.

Hopps switched back and forth across a few other cameras but couldn't get a better view of what happened next.

However, she did see the van enter a tunnel. So she continued to search traffic cams for the next half hour until she found the same van in the Nocturnal District! And then finally she found it again when it exited into TundraTown.

Sighing, Judy leaned on her arm as she continued to track the van through the snowy town. It was difficult because of the fog and snow. But thankfully after much camera switching, Judy saw the van reach its destination: An apartment complex not far from Downtown.

She sat back up, "I think I have some witnesses to visit," Judy said under her breath with a look of determination.