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Problem?

Sandra watched as Gerry pottered around the UCOS office. She knew he had been in a mood since he had arrived from the Record Room with Brian that morning. What she didn't know was why. It was beginning to annoy her.

"Wonder how the boys are getting on." Gerry huffed as Sandra leant against Brian's desk. "Right, that's it. Out with it."

"What?"

"You've been a miserable old sod since we got in this morning."

"Leave it, Guv." Gerry sipped his tea, hoping that he had effectively closed the topic. Sandra glared.

"No. I will not bloody leave it."

"It's nothing."

"Gerry." Sandra's voice took on the warning tone that made him feel like a ten year old called to the headmistress' office.

"Well, if you must know."

"And I must." She smiled slightly.

"It's this case. I don't like it. That driver, he just seems off to me. And there is the way the cash just mysteriously turns up after all these years. And now bloody Strickland of all people sticks his oar in." He shook his head as she continued to stare at him. She didn't really believe him.

"It fits our remit. It has always remained open and unsolved." Sandra watched as Gerry shoved his hands in his pockets. She knew that it wasn't just the case that was bothering him. She had known him long enough to know when something was bothering him. "Come on Gerry."

"Have you opened your letters today? Get anything in the post did you?" Gerry watched as she frowned in confusion.

"No, why?"

"We all 'ad letters this morning. Strickland would have got one aswell I reckon."

"Letters?" Sandra was lost.

"From the CPS. Sally Morris is pleading innocent. She's going to trial next month for what she did to you."

"Oh."

"Exactly. Oh."

"Gerry, we knew this was on the way. We knew she was going to plead innocent." Sandra felt sick at the thought of facing the former police officer in court. She didn't want any of the others to know that, especially not Gerry.

"I know." He nodded slightly. "But the cheek of the woman to plead innocent after what she did. It's like Jack and Hansen all over again."

"No." Sandra stepped towards him. "No it isn't. And anyway even if it was we got him in the end." She shrugged her shoulders.

"And nearly lost Jack in the meantime." Gerry caught her eye.

"I'm not going anywhere, if thats what you think." She watched as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Thats what Jack said." Gerry sighed. He hated the thought of what the case had done to the team. At the time Sally Morris had almost ripped the team apart. Now it seemed that she was just as determined to twist the knife. "Anyway this robbery."

"Wasn't really a robbery." Both turned as they heard Brian walk in the office.

"What?" Sandra faced him. "What do you mean it wasn't really a robbery?"

"We spoke to the DG of the firm. He didn't exactly go out of his way to be cooperative." Jack replied as he shrugged off his jacket.

"How do you mean?" Gerry asked, glad that the topic had been steered onto what he thought was safer ground.

"Well, for starters he didn't seem that bothered that we were investigating the robbery again. Infact he seemed a bit put out by it all." Jack took his seat in the chair opposite Sandra. "I don't like him."

"No, neither do I." Brian replied.

Gerry folded his arms across his chest as he thought about what the others had said. He tried to concentrate on the case they had just started investigating but part of him couldn't help but remember how Sandra had cried in his arms when the realisation that someone had wanted to kill her. He shook his head as he tried to rid himself of the image of her when they had found her at the house Lincoln and McCarthy had held her in. The matted blonde hair, tangled with blood and her ashen face were something he knew he would never forget or forgive the conspirators for. He looked up as he sensed Sandra's eyes on him.

"You ok?"

"Yes Guv." He nodded once as Brian and Jack exchanged glances. "You think this Morgan bloke is on the take?"

"Wouldn't surprise me." Jack answered.

"Trouble is, we have to prove it." Sandra turned and headed back to her office as the three men remained silent. They knew that Sandra was right, the problem was they had no way of proving it. Jack sighed as he picked up his phone.

"Who are you ringing?" Brian asked.

"A friend in the Fraud Squad. I think they may have been interested in our friend Morgan at the time. I want to see if Helen has any information that may be able to help." He waited for the call to connect as Brian started tapping away on his laptop.

"What did you say to her?" Brian nodded towards Sandra's office as she picked up her own phone.

"Oo?"

"Sandra, about Morris' trial?"

"Nothing."

"Didn't look like nothing." Jack stated before waving a hand for quiet. He had a feeling it was going to be a very long day.

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A/N Sorry for delay in updating. Real life got in the way.