"Right Gerry I know it's Halloween but what the hell are you doing?!" Sandra asked as she walked in and spotted Gerry wearing a cape and fangs.

"Getting into the spirit." Gerry laughed.

"Well can you get out of the spirit and focus on work?"

"Fine. Take it we have a new case then?"

"Yeah arson by the looks of it. There was an explosion at the Fox and Rabbit pub, there were 4 deaths." Sandra explained as she pinned the photos and case notes to the board.

"And we're looking at it because?" Steve asked.

"It was originally thought to be because of lightning because there was a big storm that night."

"What changed?" Brian asked.

"Good question, the ruined pub had been abandoned since it happened in 1997 but recently the site was bought and inside they found a body in a pool of dried blood with a suicide note claiming they had something to do with it. Also there were traces of petrol found in a cupboard and empty cans of petrol found in the shed out the back." Sandra told them.

"Who was the person?" Gerry asked.

"Claude Boyle."

"Oh lord, I thought he'd dropped off the face of the Earth." Gerry replied.

"Know him?"

"We had a few problems with him early 90s in vice."

"What sort of problems?" Sandra asked.

"Pimping mainly. Nothing ever stuck though then early 99 he seemed to drop off the face of the Earth."

"Well post mortem confirmed if was suicide but it seems he was there 2-3 years."

"So how do we know it's not him that's fully responsible?" Gerry and Sandra continued their conversation as the other two listened and took notes.

"In the note he left he sounded very distressed and admitted to being an accessory but was dead set on the fact it wasn't him who started the fire."

"Right in the fire a Francis McCoy, Tracy Cullun, Maria Grant and a Samuel Matthews died, so start with looking into their backgrounds." Sandra started only to see the boys standing staring at her. "Strickland wants this case done as quickly as possible to avoid a public scandal."

"Got anything?" Sandra asked coming back out of her office.

"Francis McCoy was a peace activist and had a couple convictions for criminal damage." Steve began.

"Sounds peaceful." Gerry commented sarcastically.

"Anything else?" Sandra asked.

"Tracy Cullun was only 2 weeks out of a psych ward, she'd been a danger to herself." Gerry said presenting what he'd found.

"God she would have just been getting her life back on track." Steve sighed.

"Maria Grant's post mortem revealed she was pregnant and calculated she was about 30 weeks, she was reportedly having her baby showed there." Brian piped up.

"And Samuel Matthews?" Gerry asked Sandra.

"He's an odd one, I found his birth and death certificate but inbetweens a bit of a blank. So I think that's as good a starting place as any."