Authors Notes: This is the sequel to Corruption so please read that first, otherwise you may not be able to understand this. It starts off exactly at the end of Corruption. It may be a bit slow at first and the chapters are very short, but please read & review.
"abc" means speech.
abc means thoughts.
I think that is everything so on with the story.
**********************************************************************************************
The Bill: Beech in Australia
Chapter 1: The Plan.
At CIB headquarters, the officers were complaining about there failure at catching Beech.
"Ok everybody quiet," shouted Stephen as he entered the room. Everybody stopped what they were doing to listen to what he had to say.
"We have not caught Beech today but we are not giving up. We are not giving up until he is safely locked up in jail. So ... to start with, I am going to re-interview Sun Hill CID. Claire can you check the details of the flight Beech took to get to Australia and see if you can book the next flight over there. The rest of you gather up every bit of info we have, lean on snouts, we need as much info as possible to catch him. Also Jed, can you and Chris check the security on this place. If Beech escaped, there are only two possible explanations why. 1) Being there is a traitor in this building, and the other being the security system is weak in which case we need to fix it. Understand?" Stephen finished turning towards the whiteboard behind him and writing something on it.
He turned back around and saw that no one had moved. "Well, why are you still here?" he yelled at them.
Everyone quickly disappeared to complete his or her tasks.
Stephen and Marion made their way to Sun Hill to re-interview the CID officers. After five hours of interviews, they found nothing of any use to the investigation and so decided to re-instate them. They then headed back to headquarters hoping the others had had better look than they had.
As soon as they entered the main building, Claire walked up to them with a piece of paper in her hand.
"Please tell me this is good news Claire, I've had more than enough bad news these past few days," said Stephen.
"Gov, we've managed to track the destination of Beech's flight, and the next one takes off at 9:30am tomorrow morning. Also, Jed found out how he got out of the cell. Someone had stuffed some paper or something into the keyhole so even though it seemed locked it wasn't locked at all."
"And nobody bothered to check?"
"No Gov."
"Arrgg, ok, has it all been cleaned out now and all the other cells checked?"
"Yes sir."
"Right, I'm going to see if I can book some seats on the flight to Australia tomorrow. Do you and John want to come too?"
"Yes sir. I already booked some seats; you just need to call to confirm it."
"Ok I'll do that now, and you lot finish off what your doing then get home and get packed, we've got a plane to catch in the morning so I'll meet you at the airport."
"Yes sir," Claire said before scurrying off to find John.
She found him discussing something with Chris in the main office.
"John," she calls to him, "Hodges wants us to go to Australia with him tomorrow so he said to go home and get packed now; are you coming?"
"Yeah, see ya," said John before following Claire out the building to go home.
By the time, they got home and got, everything packed it was 10pm. They finished tidying up the mess they had made, and then settled down into bed for some well-deserved rest.