Back at the station, Sam and Phil interviewed Cooper but could not charge him with anything because he refused to talk to them and they did not have enough evidence. There was nothing on Hally's clothes as she had already washed them last night to rid herself of all reminders of the man who raped her. The CCTV was not much use either. None of the buildings surrounding the pub had CCTV installed and the video Phil had retrieved from bar was pointing in the wrong direction.
"He obviously knew what he was doing" Sam commented, watching while Cooper was released.
"So what do we do now?" Phil asked her.
"We could get a warrant to search the pub and flat above it?"
"What good will that do?"
"Well they have to be keeping the drugs somewhere and the pub seems like a good place to start looking dont you think?"
"Ok I'll go see if I can sort it with Manson."
Half an hour later they were back down at the bar.
"Hello Martin, I'm sure you remember us? D.S Nixon, D.S Hunter, Sunhill CID."
"What do you want now? Come to arrest me again? he sneered at Sam
"One can only hope" Phil replied
"We have here a warrant to search these premises for drugs"
"Search away, you'll not find anything" Cooper said cockily.
"We'll see"
A quick search of the premises had overturnes absolutely nothing.
"I told you you wouldn't find anything" said Cooper, smirking at the two officers.
Phil shot him an evil look then turned to Sam:
"Come on Sam, lets get out of here."
but Sam had noticed something Phil had not.
"We've been here for almost forty minutes now and not once have you moved away from that door. What are you hiding Cooper?"
"Nothing!" Cooper said but there was an unmistakeable note of panic in his voice which both officers had noticed.
"Stand away from the door" Phil said stepping forward.
Reluctantly, Cooper moved away. Sam cautiously opened the dor and peered inside. It was just a bathroom, nothing extraordinary about it. Phil stayed outside with Cooper while Sam searched the room. She looked in all the cupboards, all the drawers and behind all the items on the shelves. Nothing. She was about to exit whenshe thought of one place she hadn't checked. She turned around and lifted the top off of the toilet cistern. Sure enough, wedged between the side of the cistern and a small pipe was the ketamine drugs they were looking for. Pulling them out she turned to Phil:
"look what I found" she said smiling. Cooper looked terrified for a moment then a look of determination came over his face. He summonded all his strength and pushed Phil who was caught by surprise and hit the wall opposite before sinking down to the floor in a daze.
After checking he was ok, Sam ran down the stairs after Cooper but stopped at the bottom as a fresh wave of naseau swept over her making her bend over and clutch her stomach. By the time she had recovered, Copper was nowhere to be seen and as she didn't even know which way he had went she gave up. Cursing, she slammed the door and headed back upstairs to Phil.
