The police car stops in front of the two large glass doors of the New Scotland Yard. Gregory and Kendall exit the car and the two inspectors drive off nearly immediately. Kendal quickly jumps back with a scowl to avoid being splashed by kicked up mud.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMrw1DjC8f
"Rude!"301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDedgxRQbiq
"You know the morons can't help it." He chuckles getting the door. "Now come on."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cTQpMO7rn
Kendall walks in, barely ducking under his arm. Like usual, the Met was crowded and busy. She follows as Gregory walks up to the receptionist.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvPo99uxmA
"Hey Flora, Ian's in, right?" he asks.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAV3TiQBcv
"He's waiting in his office for you and Miss Bell." She nods, stapling a stack of papers.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2BNiy1D2N
"Alright, thanks." He nods, tapping the counter as he steps away. Kendall walks quickly to keep up. They turn and walk down a long hallway of offices before Greg stops and knocks on one.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshTJkNtztB
"It's not locked," the police chief calls from inside.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FNcbR7WLP
Gregory opens the door and Kendall follows him in.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡps7x2fXa6G
"Go ahead and take a seat. This isn't going to be one of those talk and run conversations," he says, turning from his computer.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgRiY61PyQ
"What did Greg do this time, Chief?" Kendall sighs.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52XWiQkDlk
Ian laughs, a deep baritone. "For once, not a thing."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrJ4Q0rMAB
"Told you so." He smirks, crossing his arms behind his head. "So what do you need, Ian?"301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWyrocNwhl
Ian glances at his computer monitor before he stands from his desk. He is a sturdy, burly shaped man with short salt and pepper black hair. Tall, but still not as tall as Gregory. He gets the door. "I have a case for you, however let's walk and talk."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKvzhkX55Q
"Make up your mind, ol' chap. First you want us to sit, now to walk?"301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBatLCvWhSX
"You want the case or not, Harris?"301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66tragLPGs
"He wants the case, sir." Kendall sighs, getting up.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyOAOKtM8f
The chief nods and walks out. "You have heard about the riverside murders?"301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2Kkl6IFoq
"I've heard of a lot of murders, Ian, you're going to have to narrow that down."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTb0H6nP5q
"The ones coming in from the Thames."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqiweRqEEE
"Ah yes, I have heard a thing or two about that one."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwnqQ5CqsT
Ian nods, and stands in front of the lift. "Fourth body was found early this morning right after the papers about the third went out." He pushes button. "I'll let the Dyes explain the way they were murdered. I'll meet you down there shortly, I need to find someone else first."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFHu4oAIS0K
The lift opens with a ding and Kendall and Gregory step on. "We'll see you then, Ian." The door closes as the police chief walks away.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdk7Nr6vOXQ
Kendall looks towards Gregory. "A fourth this morning? The criminal must be speeding up."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkMngxsVDg
Greg nods slowly, looking at the lift door in thought. "I'm sure there is a further connection besides they each being dumped in the river. Setting only tells a part of the story, Kendall. But wherever they're being killed, it must be near the Thames."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc89g0g5F92
"Maybe Daan or Amber will have more details..."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EMKrR4aIE
"Probably."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTdZzfBzyKC
The lift opens with a ding and the two are met by a wall of blaring Eurodance music. Kendall covers her ears against the loudness as they step into the morgue.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0vHBENjtp
"DR. DYE?" Gregory shouts. "HELLO?"301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKZUlmA4YA
The music stops abruptly and the two doctors look sheepishly around the corner. "Ah! Mr. Harris and Ms. Bell, McIntosh sent you down, ja?" Dr. Amber Dye chuckles. She's a slender woman with long blonde hair held back with an orange bow as bright as her personality and bright blue eyes. "You'll have to excuse the music, Daan's singing could raise the dead, you have to blare it to drown him out."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUScJejBipF
"Hoi!" Dr. Daan Dye frowns. He's also slender built with short blond hair with dark rimmed glasses framing his blue eyes. "I wouldn't say it would be too bad if it were though." He then grins.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPIPwGstqg
"The chief said he'd be down here soon, too," Kendall says.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiZo267bpf
"I'm sure he will be eventually, but let's go ahead and get started, ja?"301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSOK3SOJ5k
Amber taps his shoulder. "I'll finish up that homicide autopsy while you show them our friends."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9G0miukdo0
"Still think it's going to turn out as a suicide, Amber, but you do that. I enjoy my steak cooked medium when you see I'm right."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RZe5zlTuY
"And I want lobster when you see that I am right after all. Now shoo! Show them the bodies, Liefje!" Amber swats at him before walking back to the other end of the room.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU38nzbnTLA
Daan rolls his eyes before walking over to the wall of drawers. He unhooks a clipboard from the first drawer handle and flips back a few pages on it. "Okay let's see....Four." He pulls out that slab and moves to the next. "Six....seven....and ten."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHaUSOGP7k
On the metals slabs there are three men and one woman. Just looking at the surface, there is nothing very similar about the four to each other. One man is broad and fat and old, another is a black man of average height and build. The third man has a deep tan but bright red hair and freckles. The woman herself has a buzz cut and a long flower tattoo along her neck and arm.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfp6Pm2BMzd
Gregory looks them over as Kendall pulls out her notepad and pen. "Care to tell us about the victims?"301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTx7TzMbht
Daan pushes his glasses up. "They each were fairly simple murders." He gestures to the old man. "Theodore Harrelson, age sixty-eight. His throat was slit as you can see here." He points to it with a gloved hand. "And there's evidence that he was smothered while he was bleeding out." He moves to the black man. "Fletcher Vance, age thirty-three. His blood showed signs of being heavily intoxicated at the time of death, but there were also high traces of arsenic.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVk7yBPcTwa
"Victim three, Karl Moore, age twenty-one and an American. He also had his throat slit and another stab wound on his abdomen. Lastly, Janice Laurel, age forty. Blunt force trauma to her skull. The kind of imprint it left could have either been a club or perhaps the leg of a chair. She was this morning's new victim."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiNBuazpqf
Kendall nods as she takes notes. "Alright then, I'll grab Rufford and see if we can find out some more on their backgrounds." She clicks the pen closed and starts to walk away, but Gregory grabs her shoulder before she gets far.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9RP50fV87
"Not yet, Kendall. I might need notes from when McIntosh gets his arse down here."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Pag17780d
"Why do you need me to take notes? You have the better handwriting and always complain you can't read mine," she huffs.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqTWfg271h
Greg smirks with a half nod. "True, but I don't feel like taking them myself."301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9YL9Pk5FF
Kendall rolls her eyes and mumbles, "I'm not your secretary," as she takes out the pen once again.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPRcn4pndgh
Daan clears his throat, gesturing towards the other side of the room. "Feel free to wait for the chief anywhere you want. I'm going to see how Amber's autopsy is proceeding." He then walks away.
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