Chapter 21: Escape and Interruptions.

During the night at CIB HQ, Don Beech had managed to escape his cell.  Giving no thought to anyone else at all, he carefully escaped the building and took to hiding out at one of his bent friends houses.

The next morning one of the first officers to the station found the open cell door.  He searched the whole station but found no sign of Beech.  The boss is gonna kill me he thought.

With no look at finding Beech and no other options, the officer phoned the boss debating how to tell him the bad news.

At the hotel the four officers were staying at, the sound of a phone, ringing woke everybody up.

"Arrgg, switch it off somebody switch it off," moaned Claire.

"It's the Gov's phone I think," replied John.

"Well tell him to switch the damn thing off," shouted Claire.

"I got it," called Stephen to the others.

"Gov," greeted the voice on the other end of the line, "I've got some bad news, and I think you should come to the station as soon as you can."

"Jed, it's 6 a bloody clock in the morning; what's so important that you had to wake me up at this time?"

"Its Beech sir, he ... he ... escaped."

"You WHAT?" yelled Stephen down the phone, "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?"

"I ... I ... don't know sir.  I ... I ... just got into work and found the cell door swinging open.  I searched the station but can't find a trace of him."

"Ok," said Hodges calming down a bit, even though he had no reason to; "check the CCTV footage and recheck the station, I'll be in as soon as I can."

"Yes sir," said the officer before putting the phone down.

"I don't believe this, I honestly don't," moaned Stephen, "Those half wits can't even cope for one bloody weekend without me."

"What's happened this time Ste?" asked Marion sitting up.

"Beech has escaped, that's what," snapped Stephen.

"Well no need to bite my head off."

"Sorry Mar, come on, we better get back and sort this bloody mess out."

"Ok, so much for sleeping in.  Shall I wake the others and tell em what's happened?"

"Yeah ok; I guess they need to know what's going on.  I swear we must be cursed Mar, every time we go away something like this happens."

"I know what you mean."

With that, they woke up the others and got ready to head back to London.