28/10/07
7:30 AM
The Grid
"Thank you all for coming in early." Harry said. "But as I'm sure you can appreciate, we've got rather a lot to do." He took his seat. Adam, Ros, Jo, Connie and Malcolm did the same. "Adam, have you looked at Jason Brewer yet?"
Adam nodded. "Or Finn Goldman or whatever name he's giving himself."
"No joy then." Harry asked.
"It's early in the day yet."
"Need I remind you, Adam, that this man was caught forty-eight hours ago. Our window is closing fast."
"I know Harry."
"In the interests of bringing everyone up to speed," Harry said, "there are two main areas of interest for today. The first is Adam's responsibility, I will not be directly involved, it involves asking our Mr Brewer, or whatever he's called, to inform our search for Zaf's captors. The second is to find out how they knew where Zaf was so quickly."
"It wasn't an unreasonable guess Harry." Malcolm said. "Most torture victims that end up in the UK end up in Truro."
"True, but its location is relatively secret. They weren't twelve hours behind us. And I doubt they arrived twelve hours after Adam and immediately attacked. Sneaking in with a doctor's ID and the means to kill quietly is a planned attack. They even knew which part of the hospital he was in. The leak is a lead. We use it. Malcolm has a list of medical personnel directly involved with Zaf who are likely to know where he was transferred to."
"It's a Mrs Hodgeson, a nurse, and Doctors Mullin and Hatch. I have addresses and work schedules for today. There are other staff who'd have access to the information, but those are the three most likely to know immediately."
"None of them are missing, are they?" Adam asked.
"Mrs Hodgeson came in to work last night, Doctor Hatch was working most of Sunday, Doctor Mullin hasn't had a shift since the one in which she had contact with Zaf." Malcolm replied.
"Connie, how comfortable are you with interrogation?" Harry asked.
"More than comfortable enough, I assure you."
"In that case, Ros, go with Jo and chase up the medics. Find out who told whom what, and stay alert. Do not use real names, do not split up. Adam and Connie, get what we need out of that man. Keep this need to know, you know the rules." Adam nodded, so did Connie. Harry knew he was taking a risk here. Adam had it within him to be very aggressive, so aggressive that he might compromise deniability. Hopefully Connie would be able to rein him in on her own, without needing his help. "Malcolm, do what you can to help Adam and Connie."
"Without even a name, that'll be difficult."
"Try. Meeting done." All five of them got up at once.
"Malcolm-," Adam started. "-he said he had a conviction in the USA, I think that might actually be true. You've got his prints, see if you can get anything useful from the Americans."
"With or without telling them?"
"Without." Ros cut in. "I'm still not convinced the CIA didn't run this."
"They didn't do the dirty work." Adam said. "The methods were wrong."
"Doesn't mean they didn't pay for it."
"Sneaking in to American databases isn't easy." Malcolm said. "It'll take time."
"We don't have time."