Mickey stood open mouthed. Jo had no idea what was going on and when she saw Mickey place the receiver down she went over to him. She gentle touched his arm to try and bring him back down to reality.

'Mickey,' Jo looked attempting to gain eye contact with him.

'Uhh... Oh Jo. Where's Phil?'

'What?.. Gone with Sam to St Hughs, Mickey whats going on??'

'Its Phil, what is?'

'The phone number, it went straight to his voice mail.'

'Are you sure?' Jo stood shocked

'Jo, please look we need to find Phil. Get him by himself, see if he has a clue whats goin on.' Mickey exited CID with Jo running behind him.


'Ok Carlie, the doctors said you will be discharged tomorrow, I will pick you up and bring you down to the station and we will try and get in touch with your dad. If thats what you'd like?'

'Um..' Carlie looked nervous.

'It will be fine, I will help all the way.' Sam smiled reassuringly and stood up to leave.

'Thanks'.


Mickey drove through Canley breaking almost every rule in the high way code. He had no idea what he was going to tell Phil when he saw him. One thing he did know was that he had to ask Phil before speaking to Sam. As they raced into the car park hospital, Mickey told Jo the plan.

'Right you need to get Sam by herself, that way I can talk to Phil.'

'How on this planet we call earth am I meant to do that?' Jo asked.

'You'll think of something,..' Mickey noticed Phil sat alone in his car outside the entrance. ' ...this might not be too hard, look I will go speak to him you need to go and stall Sam.'

'Yes Sir.' Jo said saluting Mickey before running out the car and into the hospital.

Mickey turned off the ignition and took a deep breathe before heading for his sargent's car.


As Jo was waiting at reception for them to find which ward the girl was on, the lift doors opened and Sam walked out. She headed for the exit, when Jo shouted. 'Sam... hang on' with absolutely no idea what she was going to say she run towards her DI.

'Jo, what are you doing here? Looking for me?'

'No, not exactly. You see Mickey and me well we heard about some kinda ... problem or commotion.. at the hospital.. and we came to check on it.' Jo went bright red and knew instantly there was no chance that Sam believed a word of what she had just said.

'I rubbish lie there DC Masters' Sam couldn't help but stifle a laugh at her colleague.

'Yes.. sorry.' Jo looked down at her feet.

'Well...'

Jo remained silent this was one rare moment when she was completely speechless. Sam looked at her then to the car park to see Phil talking to Mickey in their car. She wasn't stupid she knew something was going on.

'Coffee Jo?' They both nodded at each other. Sam was going to find out what was going on.


Phil was leaning back with his eyes closed when he heard a knock on the passenger window, expecting it to be Sam he leaned across and opened the door. He was confused as to why Mickey was standing infront of him and not Sam.

'Mickey?'

'Ah Phil,' Mickey much like Jo was struggling to find the words.

'Can I help you?' Phil looked towards Mickey who was fumbling with his fingers distracting him from the real reason he was there.

'No not really, Just popped in.. too..see how you are' Mickey turned bright red.

'Mickey, you telling me you came all the way here to see if I was alright? Whats going on?'

'Erm.. Nothing nope, infact it was Jo she came her to speak to Sam, think there was some developments or something like that.' Mickey sighed, he had held his breathe the entire time he had entered the car.

'Oh ok, has she gone to find Sam?'

'Yerr,'

'And she couldn't have rang?'

'I don't think it was exactly something you could say over the phone.' Phil just nodded in response slightly curious as to what is going on.


Sam purchased two coffees whilst Jo sat down at the table, she knew it would be impossible lying to her DI. She had no option but too tell her. She took a big deep breathe and before Sam had even sat down

'Well we came to see if Phil knew or not Mickey said it was best he found out before the girl told you and we didn't want you to find out before Phil in case you fell out again and we still had to help the girl but we needed to know if Phil knew before we can decide what were going to do about it.'

Jo felt like she was going to collapse after her non stop answer.

Sam looked at Jo with raised eye brows she just about got what Jo was saying she thought. 'So you came to see if Phil knew...' Sam realised that Jo hadn't actually told her what was going on.

'About the girl.' Jo was feeling really uncomfortable and knew Mickey would be feeling the same in fact propably worse.

'Carlie, Knows what about her.'

'That it could be... be.. or not we don't no for definite...'

'Jo please tell me..'

'His daughter.'

Sam almost dropped her coffee, her eyes widened. She looked up at Jo and could see that she wasn't joking, Immediatly she stood up and ran outside to the car park, she looked around and spotted Phil's car. Sam's heart was racing she couldn't tell whether she was angry or disappointed, she had no idea how she was feeling. She knocked on Mickey's window, she could see him and Phil had been laughing about something. Mickey looked up and opened the door, as he got out he saw Jo running out of St Hughs and knew straight away that Sam had found out. He took Sam's arm and pulled her quite forcefully away from the car.

'What the hell are you playing at DC Webb?' Sam was furious.

'He doesn't know,'

'What that he has another daughter?' Sam calmed down slightly.

'Well I don't know about that but I couldn't tell him.'

'So he has no idea.' Mickey shook his head. Sam continued ' Ok, well leave it with me. You and Jo get back to the station. I will deal with Phil.' Sam touched Mickeys arm reassuringly as a way of saying thank you.