“You’ve done pretty well getting set up,” Alex said.

“We are also getting physical copies of all the evidence collected brought here. Find anything at the club?” Drew said.

“Dead end,” Alex said.

“Watch out, Nick’s coming,” Dimitri said.

Detective Superintendent Nicholas Stroud entered the room, his mountainous build almost filling the briefing room doorway.

“Good morning everyone,” he said, his voice gravelly.

“Sir, we are starting to review all of the footage again from the CCTV cameras surrounding the areas of the crime, just as you requested. We are working on rotation, so hopefully someone will notice some connection or detail that we missed before,” Drew said.

Nick walked over to one of the detectives sitting at the table and stooped over him to look at the screen.

“Good, I have the other unit going over witness statements again and checking if we followed up all potential leads. Minerva, I want us to go over the forensics we have retrieved from the earlier cases. Might be worth having a look around some of the crime scenes and talking to Chris. I want us to be thorough about this, we can’t afford any more mistakes.”

“We wouldn’t want to miss any evidence, would we?” Alex said.

Nick glared at her, before turning on his heel and starting to leave.

“If anyone finds anything, I want to know straight away,” Nick said, disappearing through the door.

“Real smooth babe,” Dimitri said.

She didn’t correct him, was there really any point?

“So, where do we begin?” Alex said.

“The house where you think the guy was first assaulted last night seems like a good place to be start,” Dimitri said.

“You mean carrying on looking into the Greys Inn murder?”

“You think that is where the break will come from?” Minerva said, joining them in the corner of the office, Drew at her heels. Her accent was Scottish and so naturally harsh that Alex immediately thought she was angry at the suggestion, before realising she was merely asking a question.

“How do we look into it, without leaving any trace? Every search we do is recorded and logged by the powers that be,” Drew said.

“Ground work. Talking to people doesn’t leave any trace on a computer. Means you might need to get those little manicured hands of yours a little dirty,” Dimitri said, smirking at Alex. “But I think you are a tough bird at heart.”

“Tougher than you’d ever like to find out,” Alex said.

“You need to carry on with the Holmes actions or Stroud will find out. Not to mention that he might have a point about all this, the Greys Inn murder could be unrelated,” Minerva said.

“You won’t have time to do both, but we can cover for you. There is a lot of footage to look through, on paper you guys will never have had time to even leave the office,” Drew said.

“Drew, are you sure about this?” Alex said.

“You might be on to something, when we were sorting all this out, it struck me how few links we have made. I mean so few links. Every new murder raises more questions than helping to solidify any theory we have,” Drew said.

“I’ll come in over the weekend to catch up going through some of the footage, Dimitri you in?” Alex said.

“I have a fiancé, I can’t work all the time,” Dimitri said.