"Do you have anything for me, Ed?" Chandler had spent the last few hours listening to potential witnesses talk. The man had been killed in exactly the same way as Alex Wright but there didn't seem to be any sort of link between the two men.

Kent was still doing door to door with Mansell, while Riley had come back to the incident room to look at this man's relationships. They'd turned up nothing.

"I'm sorry Joe, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the archives. There's plenty on strangulation but nothing specific to this case."

"Check for single parents." Chandler knew it was a long shot that there would be something in the archives but right now, other than the blurry picture, that was all he had to go on.

"I'll check but I don't hold out much hope."

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Kent came up to the last flat on the block. No one had heard or seen anything and Kent didn't expect for this one to have either. Emerson was starting to wish he'd faked being ill another day, doing the door to door was never any good.

""Erica's invited you round tonight." Mansell said, knocking at the flat.

"Sorry, I can't come." Kent stated. He didn't have anyone to look after Sarah and he still hesitant about telling Mansell about her. Mansell shrugged in answer as the flat door opened, not quite wide enough for the two DC's to see inside.

"DC Mansell and DC Kent." Mansell stated, both DC's showing the woman their badges. Pulling back the door, Emerson halted for a moment as he came face to face with Danielle. She blushed viciously when she saw Kent standing there.

"Sorry." She stammered opening the door further. "I promise I can explain this." Mansell watched in confusion as Danielle backed away from the flat door. "Sarah didn't want to stay at home and it was raining so I brought her back to my flat. I was just going to take her home."

"Who's Sarah?" Mansell asked, staring at Kent when he spoke.

"Is she here?" Kent didn't quite know what to say. He'd never exactly told Danielle she couldn't take Sarah to her place but it was something he'd have liked to known beforehand.

"Yeah, I'll go get her." Danielle seemed to be happy about getting out of the doorframe as she very almost ran further into the flat.

"Who's Sarah?" Mansell asked again, with more force.

"My daughter." Kent stated as Sarah came running out of the flat and jumped to give Kent a hug. "Hey, sweetheart." Sarah hugged Kent happily grinning the whole time.

"Can we go home now?" Mansell was watching Kent hold the child, curious about what was going on.

"Sorry." Emerson stated, glancing at Mansell sympathetically. "I'll just…"

"Yeah sure." Mansell motioned for Kent to take the young girl away from the door.

"Can we go home?" Sarah repeated, innocently looking up at her Father. "Please daddy, don't wanna stay." Kent frowned.

"Why? You like Danielle, don't you?" Sarah nodded, not meeting Kent's eye. "Then what's wrong?" Kent asked, worriedly. He couldn't understand what was wrong with his daughter.

"Don't like him."

"Who?" Emerson asked as he lifted Sarah so she was resting on the railing.

"Him." Sarah pointed towards the flat.

A man was standing at the door of Danielle's flat, arguing with Mansell. Putting the daughter back on the floor, Kent felt Sarah press up against his legs as he walked back to the flat. "Look did you see anything." Mansell asked the man.

"Why do want to know?" Kent could tell that the man was starting to get more and more agitated and as they grew closer Emerson felt Sarah press closer towards him.

"Sir, we just need to know if you've heard anything."

"No, we didn't." The man was getting closer to Mansell and Kent could see his fists clenching at his side. When Mansell stepped back, the man at the door seemed to start relaxing. Danielle was hovering by his shoulder. "You're the kids' Dad?" He asked, looking straight at Kent.

"Daddy." Sarah was pulling at his sleeve, trying to get away from the man.

"Come on, we should get back." Mansell said, seeing the way Sarah was acting.

"Emerson, I can…" Danielle trailed off seeing the way Kent was acting.

"Sorry, I'll take her home."

"Okay, do you want me to come down tomorrow?" She looked hopeful and Emerson understood, she needed the money.

"We'll talk tomorrow."

"Okay, thanks." Danielle smiled, obviously happy with that.

As the three walked away Mansell looked at the way Sarah was attaching herself to Kent's legs. Kent picked her up when they hit the stairs, which seemed to annoy Sarah as she kept struggling. Mansell couldn't help but think it was kind of cute the way Kent held his daughter. "So, where's the Mother?"

Kent was taken aback for a moment before answering, "She's dead."

"Oh sorry." Mansell wasn't sure what to say to that and it was clear Kent didn't know how to continue the question as he immersed himself in fastening the seatbelt around his daughter. "I can drop you off at your place if you want."

"The station's fine I need to get my car and…I guess I need to explain." Sarah was till squirming in her seat. "Behave." Kent said, sternly, causing Sarah to stop moving around.

The drive back to the station was silent as Mansell drove, nervously glancing at the back of the car through the mirror. Sarah was still squirming but every now and again Kent sent her a stern glance and she was still. "Daddy?" Sarah asked as the silence got too much for the 3 year old. "Who's he?"

"My name's Finley Mansell, I'm dating your Dad's sister."

"Auntie Erica!" Sarah cried out, happily. "I like you." Mansell smiled at the statement made by the three year old.

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Candler was working at his desk when Buchan came into the incident room. "You found something?"

Buchan dumped a file onto the DI's desk, making him flinch at the way it fell haphazardly. Straightening it out, Chandler pulled out the paper inside the file. "A young man was arrested because he had psychiatric issues, which he blamed on living alone with his Father. This caused him to kill several single fathers. The difference was he killed the children also." Chandler scanned the file before nodding.

"That's brilliant, thanks Ed."

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Meg was sat at her desk going through family members when Mansell and Kent walked back into the incident room, looking up she let out a small gasp. "What's up?" Miles asked, looking up. He paused what he was doing then.

Kent hadn't wanted to bring Sarah into the incident room but knew he couldn't leave a 3 year old in a car while he explained why he had to leave. Anyway, Sarah was blabbering about going into the incident room and Kent knew better than to not let her, she could be stubborn in ways that reminded Kent of her mother.

"Is that your?" Emerson nodded shyly as Meg got to her feet. "What's your name, sweetie?" Sarah looked up at the DC. "You look just like your Father."

Brightening a little by that, Sarah answered Riley. "Sarah."

"Where've you been hiding her?" Miles asked, getting up from his own desk.

Emerson wasn't sure how to explain this but thankfully he didn't need to as Chandler walked out his office. He'd been reading over the file that Buchan had brought up for him. "What is going on out here?"

The DI froze when he saw the young girl, standing next to Kent. "Who's this?"

"Erm, Sarah…my daughter." Emerson answered, obviously uncomfortable about the exchange.

"Why is she here?" Chandler was equally uncomfortable.

"I needed to take her home and was wondering if I could have the rest of the day off."

Chandler was stumped for a moment. "Isn't there someone who could look after her?" Sarah had wandered over to the DI.

She grabbed a hold of Chandler's trouser leg, pulling it in what she probably thought was a hard tug. "No, Daddy said he'd take me home."

A red blush was working its' way up Kent's neck as he apologised, walking over and lifting the young girl up from the floor. "Its fine, you ca have the rest of the day off."

"Thanks."

The room was silent as Kent made his way out of the room but as soon as he'd left it Riley started to speak. "Did anyone know Emerson had a daughter?" Everyone shook their heads all wondering why they hadn't been told about the young girl.

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