The news conference lasted an hour. It was dark by the time it ended. When it was over the police chief came in looking angry.
"You better know where the next fire is gonna happen." The chief threatened. He looked down and looked at K-9 and said "Oh so now we've got a tin dog."
K-9 began to correct him. "Actually sir it is a composite-"
"Oh" The chief interrupted "it can even speak"
"Chief" said The Doctor "I think I know not only where the fire will take place but also how to catch the arsonist."
"What, how?" The chief asked
"Do you have security cameras around the station?"
"Duh"
"Good we need to go back to the footage of the press conference. A person left in the middle of it. I think that that is your arsonist." The Doctor said.
"Okay. Rogers" The chief shouted across the station, "get the footage of the press conference and see if we can tell if we can see who left early. Now Doctor," He said turning back towards the Doctor. "Where's this fire gonna be.
"Are there any abandoned warehouses around here?" The Doctor asked
"Yes one" answered the chief.
"So how did you figure this out?" Chief Sanders asked as the Doctor had figured out his name at the being of the car ride to the warehouse.
"Well let's see he had already hit two places the pier and the apartment. A place for fun and a place for living so there's one left. And that would be work. And I figured it would be abandoned because the apartment was but the pier wasn't so there's the pattern. Abandoned populated abandoned." The Doctor explained
"That's genius," said Sanders.
"No that's just logic" The Doctor replied.
"Negative Master, patterns are either used in art, math or science" K-9 said from the Doctors lap
"Quiet K-9 or I'll throw you out of this car." The Doctor snapped.
"Affirmative Master." K-9 replied
"Were here." Sanders said as the three police cars they brought pulled up to a warehouse.
The Doctor got out and set down K-9. He looked at the warehouse then began running towards it. He yelled for them to stay where they were. He ran into the warehouse and just two seconds later the place went up in flames.
The man was just preparing for the warehouse fire. He had set up barrels of oil all over. He had dipped string in oil and put it from the 5 barrels at the middle of the warehouse to all the other barrels. He then doused parts of the warehouse in oil. He was setting up his fuse when he heard the police approaching. He had planned for this he pulled a jacket out of a barrel of water and put it on. He left the brief case by the fuse. He pulled out a match and lit it. He dropped the match in the oil leading to the barrels right as the Detective came into the warehouse. They looked at each other for two seconds then the place went up in flames.
The Doctor hadn't got a good look at the man since the lighting was so bad in the warehouse. When the warehouse went up he ducked down to avoid a barrel catching on fire above him. He ran out side while taking his jacket off. He dipped it in a puddle of water by the door then put it on. The policemen were yelling at him to not go back in. He ran inside anyways. He saw a briefcase on the floor he picked it up. As he got up the arsonist hit him in the face with the butt of a pistol. The Doctor fell on the ground dazed for a few seconds he then got up in time to see the arsonist run out of a back door. The Doctor ran after him still holding the brief case. The man fired shots at the Doctor. Instinctively The Doctor held up the brief case. This is how he found out that the brief case was bullet proof. When the doctor looked up the man had disappeared. The Doctor walked around the warehouse. K-9 was with the police chief waiting for him.
"Here" The Doctor said as he got to the squad cars. He threw the briefcase at a detective they had brought along.
"The fire trucks are almost here." Said Sanders as the fire trucks turned the corner.
"He fired shots and I couldn't get a good look at him." The Doctor said
"So our only chance of catching him is if the footage was good enough to get a good look at him."
"Sir it's locked" Yelled the detective with the brief case.
"Hand it over," the Doctor said taking out the sonic screwdriver.
The detective walked over to the Doctor and handed him the briefcase. The sonic screwdriver buzzed at the lock. The briefcase flew open and a single piece of paper fell to the ground. It said I saw your robot dog.
"Oh no" Sanders said in a whisper
"What" The Doctor asked.
"They open the robot labs tomorrow down at U.S.C."
They had gotten back to the station when Sanders finally asked the question.
"What should we do Doctor?"
"Set guards around the building. Then we search it before it opens." The Doctor answered as he walked into the main part of the station.
"Rogers" The chief yelled, "You better have something."
"Not exactly something" Rogers replied
The Doctor and Sanders walked over to find a very pixilated picture of someone.
"Let me see that" The Doctor said as he pulled out the sonic screwdriver. He blasted the screen with sonic waves till the picture sharpened.
"I can't tell from the picture but I am sure that if we but it out we will catch him." The Chief said.
"Well we can't do much more till tomorrow" The Doctor said.
"Doctor do we need to get you a hotel?" Sanders asked
"No I've got a small room."
The Doctor walked into the station. He saw that the place was crazy.
"Doctor where have you been? We've been going crazy trying to keep this from the press. They get suspicious when you set up guards all over the building." Sanders almost yelled at him.
"Oh I forgot one security measure. Did you make people sign in when they entered the building?" The Doctor asked.
"No" replied Sanders angrily. "Would that have helped?"
"The number of suspects would have decreased by 75%" K-9 explained.
"Oh well uh… woops." Said sanders feeling stupid.
"Well we better stop waiting and go search the building." The Doctor said.
Sanders pulled out the keys to his squad car. And they walked out into the stations garage. The Doctor carried K-9 down the stairs to the garage basement. Sanders unlocked his car and jumped in the driver seat. The doctor put K-9 in the backseat and jumped in the passenger seat.
"Doctor when we get there we'll only have 30 minutes till the opening speech. We'll have to go fast"
They finally arrived at U.S.C with only ten minutes till the speech.
"K-9" the Doctor said, "I need you to search for a signal for the detonator."
"Affirmative Master" K-9 replied as he got set down at the building.
The Doctor and Sanders searched while K-9 sat in the lobby and looked for a signal. K-9's eyes flashed once. He began to roll towards the elevator. He stuck out his eye probe and pushed a button for the second floor. K-9 waited till the doors opened and he rolled over to a desk. He went under the desk and found the bomb.
"Have found bomb," K-9 said. He then realized no one was in earshot and then went on the radio signals "Have Discovered bomb on second floor." K-9 then patiently waited.
Meanwhile since the Doctor didn't have a radio he did not hear K-9's message. But the Doctor looked out the window to see a man leave a building. The Doctor recognized him from the picture and when he shot at him. It was the arsonist.
"I found him," The Doctor yelled.
He looked around but no one ran towards him. The Doctor decided to go on pursuit. He jumped through the window. The shattering made the arsonist turn and notice the Doctor.
The arsonist began to run. The Doctor chased him. The arsonist ran towards the parking lot. He pulled out his keys and hit a button. The arsonist slid across the top and jumped in the back seat and drove away. The Doctor quickly memorized the license plate number then ran back towards the robotics building. He walked in the front. He went up to the second story to see all the policemen huddled around a bomb. Sanders said they had called in the bomb squad. The Doctor reached down and hit a switch deactivating the bomb.
"Sanders" The Doctor said "I need you to do some research."
The man had been chased out of the university by the detective and had heard someone call him the Doctor. So the police had found him. He was prepared for this though. Of course he would have to pickup some things from his house but then he would be gone. His plan was still working.
