Ok its back, sorry for the delay in update but I have three stories on the go at the moment and I also have something called work which I would rather not do but I do need to pay the bills.

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With no leads on where Finn Harris had been for the last eight years the team had little to go on by way of finding him. The last person to have seen him alive and admit it was Mrs Drivers, and Sandra was still unhappy about this alleged stolen jewellery.

There was nothing in either the banks statement or the investigating police officers notes to suggest any jewellery was missing, neither was there any stolen jewellery reported in the moths after that had not either been recovered or linked to another robbery.

Sandra tipped her coffee cup to her lips and found it empty, scowling into the empty porcelain she looked up and grinned at the man standing in her door way with a steaming hot cup.

"Thanks Gerry." She said as he gave her the full cup and exchanged it for the empty one.

"Any progress?" She asked standing up and feeling her knees pop and hoping it was not the first sign that she was getting old.

"Nothing every piece of stolen jewellery since 1999 has been accounted for, either recovered or been logged as stolen in the data base, there is no mention of it concerning the alliance and Lester job." Gerry said following the blonde out into the main office as she stared at the pictures of their three robbers.

"We need to speak to Mr and Mrs Harris." She said thinking out loud as Brian gave a cry of joy.

"Got it." He said grasping his lap top and standing up and coming around to the centre of the room to show everyone what he had found.

"What ever it is I hope I don't catch it." Jack said also standing and joining the rest of them on the sofa's to listen to what Brian had found out.

"I have been looking back though old cases, wondering whether they took the jewellery in an earlier robbery, although the chances of us matching anything in the archives with these three is remote considering we have no idea what the jewellery consisted off, watches, rings necklaces." Brian stated looking at his colleagues with interest until Sandra spoke up.

"Get on with it Brian." She said folding her arms and crossing her legs in the ultimate I'm getting pissed off pose.

"Oh sorry, well I found something very interesting out a year before the alliance and Lester job there was a heist at a small jewellery store across the road. All the hall marks of a professional hit, the jewellery was never recovered." Brian paused as if for dramatic effect but Jack gave him a warning look.

"The bank manager of the Alliance and Lester one Aaron Ward was investigated when the robbery happened in 1999 and it was found out that he had ties to one Roland Gulliver, know to the met for his dealings in the illegal arms trade. Never been proved of course."

"So how come Roland was not suspect numero uno for this bank job?" Gerry asked before anyone else got the chance.

"Air tight alibi, they did look at him but he was in the med with his girls friend even had the video and receipts to prove it." Sandra replied sitting forward and hoping this had some kind of point.

"Exactly, however after the robbery Roland was back almost forty eight hours after in fact and then he almost immediately disappeared again, right around the time our three boys did." Brian said hoping someone would catch on to his line of thinking and Jack didn't let him down.

"The jewellery Roland nicked a year earlier was in that bank and the boys took it with the rest of the gear and hid it, refused to tell Roland where it was and paid for it. makes sense now why it wasn't reported missing." Jack turned to the others and gave them a knowing smile.

"Ok but this is all just theory right now, Brian Jack go and talk to Aaron ward and see what you can make of him, if he was harbouring that jewellery for a cut he might have been in on the rest. Oh and ask him when the last time he saw Roland was, I bet it was not so long ago." Sandra said pulling on her coat as Gerry looked at her eyebrow raised.

"So where are you going?" He asked as she said nothing more as Jack and Brian made their exit and she turned on him and smiled.

"I'm not going anywhere we are." Gerry grinned getting up and rubbing his hands together.

"Roland Gulliver I presume." He said pulling his coat of the hanger and following Sandra to her car. Gerry noted that it had gotten quite dark since their return from Mrs Drivers house and he glanced down at his watch. Stunned that it was almost five he climbed in next to Sandra and gave her a cursory glance.

"I know its late but if he doesn't know we are coming he won't have a very good story prepared." She said as she pulled out of the car park an on to the main road.

"Men like Roland Gulliver always have a story made up, its how they avoid the likes of us." Gerry said unconvinced but excited to be going with her to see her come up against one of London's biggest rogues.

Sandra was outwardly calm driving along but inside her stomach was doing flip flops, she had only heard about Roland, he seemed to have gone under the radar soon after 2001, most of the met thought it was because he was too old and had already made enough money, others like herself and the rest of her team thought he had just got better at not getting caught.

Pulling up at the large house on primrose hill Sandra turned off the engine and switched off the head lights. The lights from inside the house glowed on to the street and Sandra unbuckled her seat belt and threw a look at Gerry who was doing the same.

"Looks like they are in." she said as she climbed out of the car and he followed her up the path to the brand double door and she pressed the bell.

It only took a few moments before the door was opened by a young Chinese looking girl and the warmth from the house enveloped the two shivering officers.

"Detective superintendent Sandra Pullman UCOS, is Mr Gulliver around I would like to speak to him." Before the young girl could answer she was pushed aside slightly by a tall well built man in his early fifties. He had a cigar clamped between his teeth and a large glass of whiskey in his hand. The door held in the other and he blew cigar smoke right at them as he took a pull.

"Well if it isn't the old bill, its about time you came calling for me, its been a while, my though I will say this you coppers are getting far more attractive these days, well some of them." Roland drawled as he took in Sandra then looked over her shoulder slightly as Gerry who had moved in closer and was now standing almost on Sandra's foot.

"That maybe Mr Gulliver but we would like a moment of your time." Sandra said hinting that she would like to come in and Roland didn't disappoint.

"Won't you come in then I am sure I will help you out any way I can." He said and it sounded so insincere to Gerry that he thought he might actually choke on that cigar smoke.

"What is it I can help you with Sandra." Roland said as she walked passed him to stand in the centre of the grand entrance hall and she turned and smiled at him.

"Nice place you have here, I wonder what could have afforded you all of this." It was a rhetorical question and Roland knew it so Sandra continued.

"I have come to ask you about the alliance and Lester robbery back in 1999, we have re opened the case." She said looking for a reaction and a slight raising of the eyebrows let her know he knew what she was talking about.

"I was cleared of any involvement in that, I was in Spain at the time." Roland replied as Gerry stepped forward.

"Yeah but the jewellery you nicked from a earlier job wasn't was it, it was in the vault at the alliance and Lester." He said and both police officers watched as Roland's face grew pale then angry then finally he shrugged.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." He said but it was too late they had seen his reaction and they knew they were right on the money. Roland knew it too so he put out his cigar in the plant pot and went to the door.

"I am sorry but I don't think I can help you out with this one. So if you wouldn't mind Eastenders is starting shortly and I would like to get back to it." He ushered them out side until they were on the door step.

"We may need to speak to you again Mr Gulliver make sure you stay in town." Sandra said as the door closed and she and Gerry ran for the car as the first flakes of snow started to fall.

"He knows something, and I guarantee it was his stolen jewellery that went missing." Gerry said as Sandra started the car and cranked up the heating to ward of the cold that had settled in the vacant vehicle.

As she pulled away her phone rang and Gerry answered it while she drove back towards the office.

"Hi Jack how did it go." Gerry answered as Jacks name came up on the display.

"Not good, the man shut down as soon as we mentioned the robbery, which tells me he has something to hide." Jack replied

"Maybe we should bring him in really put the thumb screws on." Gerry suggested as Sandra nodded in his peripheral vision.

"I was thinking the same thing, I think we will have to do it quick though, he seems like the type to do a runner."

"First thing in the morning." Sandra said from the drivers seat as she swung the car away from the office and towards the pub.

"Meet us in the pub guys and we will let you in on what we found out." Gerry said not needing to ask Sandra what her plan was, after all this time they didn't need to share every thought verbally and it was nice to know that in a crisis.

When Jack and Brian made it to the pub Sandra and Jerry already had the drinks in, Brian poured his sparkling water into his glass slowly and watched as the bubbles rose to the surface and frowned. There was something missing that had been bugging him all day and he couldn't put his finger on what it was. Fading out the voices of his friends as they exchanged information about their brief but informative interviews it suddenly clicked in his head.

Looking up and noticing that they were all looking at him questionably Brian pushed his glasses higher up on his nose and took in a deep breath.

"Well what do you think Brian?" Gerry asked at last when he offered no comment as he had not been listening to the question.

"I think if a bunch of fairly low level criminals got caught thieving a big time gangsters loot there is not way they wouldn't be telling him where they stashed it." He said and looked at his colleagues faces, one by one they realised that he was right.

"I mean it wouldn't be worth it would it, a few thousand quid, god even a few million in exchange for their lives, no way." Brian continued as he picked up his water and took a long drink.

"Ok so we are looking for a different motive if it was Roland who caught up with these guys that's all, maybe something else was going on, like a double cross they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar." Jack said as he emptied his pint glass and placed it back on the table with a satisfying thunk.

"Tat or a different killer all together." Brian replied which brought the table to a silence until Sandra broke it.

"Ok we will see tomorrow when we bring in Aaron, I'm going to head off now, did you want a lift Brian?" Sandra said getting up and taking her coat with her.

"I have him tonight Sandra Ester is away at her sisters and instead of him stinking up the office again he is going to bunk in my spare room." Jack said copying Sandra and grabbing his own coat and throwing it on.

"Ok I will see you in the morning boys." Sandra called as she pushed open the doors and the icy wind hit her full in the face, whipping her hair out behind her and exposing her ears to the biting cold. The snow had settled in patches along the grass around the car park and it was still falling she hoped that it wouldn't get to bad or it might cause some problems getting to work in the morning.

Unlocking her car she waved as Jack and Brian drove passed and then turned her head at a shout.

"Sandra, hey can I catch a lift" It was Gerry jogging towards her with car keys in hand.

"Car's old and it's too cold won't start." He said teeth chattering in the falling snow and Sandra gave him a small smile.

"That's what happens when you get old I am afraid Gerry." She said and he scoffed at her.

"Jump in before we also stop working." Sandra said quickly opening her car door and turning on the engine.

"Ta Gov'ner I will get someone to pick it up in the morning." Gerry said as he buckled in and Sandra drove them home.

The car that followed them going unnoticed in the almost white out conditions the snow was creating, as they made their way towards Gerry's house.

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