"Well, that's done," Robertson said an hour later. After giving her detailed confession, Gypsy had been charged and locked in a cell, awaiting transfer to the city the next day.

"So that it, it's all over?" said Charlie. She and her cousin had remained at the Station while Robertson and Graves had followed up on a few things and while she was itching to get home, she was also wanting to speak to Robertson.

"We have a confession from Angelo's lover who accurately described the shots to Angelo's body, including the areas of impact," he said. "She also gave an accurate account of the crime scene, how she dragged his body and then struggled to heave it into the bin, but wasn't strong enough and so left him next to it."

"Her alibi has also recanted his statement about seeing her that night," said Graves. "Then we have the timeframe she provided. It fits in with the TOD. The Taxi driver remembers dropping her off near the hotel, but not directly in front, so she still had plenty of time to walk from there to the shop and then back to the Club. After that, she had all night to arrange her alibi with the bartender."

"We've received some results back on the evidence recovered at the scene and it backs up both Miss Dean and Miss Nash's account that sex happened in that alleyway," Robertson told them. "One condom came back with a DNA match to Angelo and Miss Dean."

"Basically, her confession fits in with what the evidence and scene has been telling us," said Graves.

"So, it really does all fit," murmured Charlie.

"Almost too well," muttered Graves to herself, but Charlie picked up on it.

"Do you have some doubts about her confession?" she said. "Because I know I certainly have. I'm not even entirely convinced that she did kill Angelo, despite what she says."

"Yeah, I didn't really buy most of her story either," said Watson.

"You can add us to that list as well," Graves said. "Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe that Gypsy Nash is involved in Angelo's murder, I just don't think she pulled the trigger."

"If she didn't kill Angelo, then she has to know who did," Charlie said. "Someone had to have given her the details to confess to."

"What would make a woman, a mother of a young child, confess to a crime she didn't commit?" asked Watson. "There is no way known, that I could ever be apart from my son for any reason, especially one I could prevent."

"A threat," said Charlie.

"A hell of a threat," replied Watson.

"Unfortunately, we may never know her reasons," Robertson said. "I've just spoken to the DPP. The moment ballistics confirms the gun is the murder weapon, we're going public with it and the case will then be handed over to lawyers to finalise."

"So that's it then," said a disgusted Watson. "If she didn't do it, then there could be a real killer out there who could just get to walk away scott free."

"I'm with Georgie on this," said Charlie. "We're the ones who have been put under intense scrutiny since Angelo was murdered and I'd definitely like to catch the person who put us in that position."

"My hands may be tied once ballistics is in," Robertson said. "So unless new evidence comes to light, then Miss Nash will go down for Angelo Rosetta's murder. Alone."

"It's quick, clean and keeps the sordid details out of the press," muttered Charlie.

"It's only our own speculation that has someone else involved," he pointed out. "Gypsy Nash could very well be as guilty as sin and regardless of what we believe, there is no denying that she is involved in this murder in some way and now she will pay for that," he said. "And at least the media scrutiny into your lives should end now."

"You reckon?" Watson said snidely. "This confession comes out of the blue and there are still many unanswered questions."

"As far as the media will be made aware, those questions will have been answered by Miss Nash's confession."

"You think that will convince them?" said Watson. "I know what innuendo is like, I've lived with it my entire life and it doesn't matter how much truth hits them over the head, they'll still be asking questions, that's what small towns are like."

"I do understand your position," Robertson said. "And I assure you, that when it comes time to release the media statement on Miss Nash, there will be no doubt that we have the killer."

"Except we may not."

"Publically, we will."

"It's enough Georgie," Charlie said. "People just want this over with and since Angelo wasn't well liked and Gypsy is a stranger, most will forget this and move on."

"Yeah, I suppose so," she murmured. "I just don't like the idea that there is potentially still a killer out there and that that same person could have also been responsible for killing my best friend. It was bad enough before, but now it's two shootings in which this person may have gotten away with it."

"I don't like the fact that there could still be a killer out there either," said Charlie. "What does happen to the investigation into Jack and Georgie's shooting?" she asked of Robertson.

"That's yet to be decided," he said. "It could depend on whether the gun will lead us anywhere."

"Martha deserves answers, so do Jack's family and myself," Watson told him. "It's been long enough."

"I agree and if it was my choice, I'd continue on with the investigation, but cold cases rely on fresh evidence to reopen and to remain so."

"And if that gun Gypsy handed over is the one that killed both Angelo and Jack?"

"Like I said, it may depend on whether the gun opens up new leads as to whether the case will be continued."

"Look, we want answers as well," said Graves. "But we have to follow orders and if the DPP chooses to close the case, there's nothing more we can do."

"I just want answers to some of the many bloody questions," muttered Charlie. "Like who is this Gypsy Nash, I mean, who is she really?"

"A complete fake. Her tears were fake, her reasons for being here are fake, her statement was fake and even her tits are fake as well," commented Watson. All looked to her. She shrugged. "Well they are fake."

"Ok, so she's fake in more ways than one," said Charlie. "But who is she?"

"A background check hasn't turned up anything out of place," replied Robertson. "Average job, broken marriage, nothing that really stands out."

"Except that the woman is a professional liar," said Graves. "She lied to Angelo about who she was, she originally lied about not being at that shop when Shannon saw her there and I'm pretty sure she lied as to why she had been going there in the first place."

"She was also likely lying when she denied any knowledge of there being someone else there at the same time she was," Robertson said. "Same with lying about those boxes."

"What do you think was in those boxes?" asked Charlie.

"No idea," he admitted. "Most likely illegal though. An old abandoned shop where there was little chance of people strolling past and seeing them, would be the perfect spot to store illegal goods or even run an illegal business from."

"A business that Gypsy Nash no doubt knows much more about than she'll ever be willing to tell us," said Graves.

"What about the man who attacked Shannon? It's a pretty good bet that he is also connected to what was going on in that shop," Charlie said.

"Shannon couldn't give us a description," said Graves. "So unless fingerprints at the scene turn up a match with someone in our database, then we have no clue as to who this man is."

"Miss Nash was clever in a way," said Robertson. "She would have known the shop had a back door, so she could have gone out that way and missed him, not that I believe for one second that is what happened, but it's like everything else in this case. It provides her with a plausible explanation as to why she may not have seen anyone else there that day."

"Could Angelo have been up to something with these people?" Watson suggested. "He did have a drug habit and questionable taste in the people he associated with."

"Joey excluded," added Charlie.

"Of course," she said with a wry smile. "But he was mixed up with drugs, hookers, Bianca Scott and Gypsy Nash, who knows what else he was up to."

"There was no evidence of drug use by Angelo that night, but we can't discount that he was mixed up in something that led to his death."

"I'd still like to know why Gypsy Nash was in town in the first place," said Graves. "I don't buy her reasoning for that or for why she switched rooms. She moved into the room next to mine, she posed as my girlfriend with Angelo and for some time, I had this feeling that I was being watched."

"And during the course of the investigation, we've speculated Angelo also had eyes on him," added Robertson. "If Gypsy isn't the shooter, it would explain how the real shooter knew where to find Angelo. She told him or her where he was. Of course, her statement that she arrived just in time to see him sneak out with Kathy Dean, is also plausible."

"When did she arrive in town?" Charlie asked them.

"Before the accident," replied Graves. "However, she moved into the room next to mine after the accident and as far as we've been able to ascertain, she started to focus on Angelo around the same time."

"Could this be something to do with the accident then?" said Charlie. "Or are we missing something still?"

"Well, in an earlier statement, Gypsy did say that when she was pretending to be Shannon, Angelo wanted her to sweet talk me into revealing information over the crash investigation," replied Graves. "That is one detail I do believe her on, that Angelo was after information on the investigation. That doesn't necessarily mean that Gypsy was after the same information however."

"Martha doesn't know this woman," said Watson. "So if it is something to do with the accident, then it's more likely to do with Angelo or even Bianca."

"Would Bianca's sister know anything?"

"Possibly," replied Charlie. "Though the chances of getting anything useful from April are pretty slim. She'll protect her sister until she knows what happened to her."

"It might not necessarily be about the accident, but more about it being the day that Miss Scott disappeared," murmured Robertson. "Perhaps Gypsy was using Angelo to try to get to her whereabouts. We just don't know."

"And we probably never will," Charlie unhappily muttered. "I hate unanswered questions in this job."

"This case has certainly thrown up many of those, but also, many coincidences," said Robertson. "The gun that killed Jack supposedly ends up in the possession of Bianca Scott, who was having an affair with Angelo, who gains possession of the gun, then has an affair with Gypsy, who then uses the gun against him. That is, if we were to believe Miss Nash's account of how she came into possession of the gun. For the moment, let's say we do believe her, then the question becomes, how did Miss Scott come by it." He looked to Charlie. "Charlie, you knew Bianca Scott better than anyone else in this room," he said. "Could she have had possession of that gun and was she ever a suspect in Jack's death?"

"I guess anything is possible where Bianca is concerned, so yeah, the gun could have been hers," replied Charlie. "As to her being a suspect, no, she never was. From memory, she wasn't even in town during that period."

"So you weren't dating her at the time?"

"No, that came much later."

"How about from another mark," said Graves. "What if she found the gun in one of her marks possession and used it as leverage against them? We know that Bianca was blackmailing Angelo and the question has always been, who and how many others were there."

"Unfortunately, while her bank balance and records strongly support there being more than one mark, she made over the counter deposits, which makes it extremely difficult to trace," Robertson said.

"How big were the deposits?" asked Charlie.

"Not big enough to raise suspicion," replied Graves. "I'm guessing she kept her cash hidden for a time and banked it in smaller increments to avoid drawing attention to herself."

"What did the Tax Office have to say about these funds?"

"She had an ABN and all payments were declared through that," Graves explained.

"She ran her blackmail as a business?" Watson bemusedly said.

"She ran a registered business in which she was self-employed."

"First I've heard of any business," said Charlie. Then again, she'd gone out of her way to avoid Bianca since she'd come back to town.

"Obviously the business was more of a cover for the less legal side of things, but she had been running an internet escort agency, in which she was the only employee," Graves told them. "She used an alias for her business to protect her private life, but it was all legally done and maintained, except of course, for her extracurricular activities."

"Rather clever," Charlie murmured. "She could have some legitimate clients, yet forge paperwork for other clients to cover for the blackmail payments."

"The majority of deposits do seem to match up with the prices offered for a few hours of her company in the evening."

"Why didn't you tell us this before?" asked Watson.

"Because we'd handed the more detailed background check into her banking activities over to the forensic auditors to sift through and it takes time."

"Running an escort agency would also be a good way to get dirt on people to then blackmail them with," said Charlie. "And you're right, I suppose she could have come into possession of the gun that way and then blackmailing this person to keep her silence, does seem in character for her."

"If we were to believe Gypsy Nash's version of events about the gun," Graves reminded them. "Notice how she puts the gun into the hands of two people who aren't around to verify it, so unless we can retrace the gun's history back to its owners, then we have no real way to disprove Gypsy's statement about the gun. Also, by telling us that she never asked Angelo for details, she can continue to play dumb in that regard." She shook her head, disappointed at where this was all heading.

"Miss Nash gave us a statement that is both plausible and difficult to disprove," Robertson said. "Which is possibly the only reason why it was told."

"Ok, back to Bianca and the gun," said Watson. "What about these clients of Bianca's? Anyway to find out who they were?"

"She used initials and codes to protect the identities of her clients and it's going to take more time to decipher it, if that is even possible," said Robertson.

"What about April, was she involved in this business?" asked Charlie.

"There's no paperwork to link her, but that's not to say she wasn't a silent partner in this," replied Graves. "As you pointed out earlier though, she probably won't be too forthcoming with any information that may help us."

"Then we're not likely to find out, are we?" said Charlie. "Especially not when Gypsy Nash's confession is accepted and goes public. Once that happens, we may never know for certain if the gun started in Bianca's possession or if Gypsy got it directly from Angelo's killer."

"Given the gun was responsible for the death of two police officers, there could be a strong argument to continue the investigation, at least into Jack's death," Robertson told them. "However, I feel that if we were given permission to do so, it would be with strict parameters set in place, such as keeping it confined to tracing the gun's history and with a very short time frame in which to turn up fresh evidence that points to a suspect, otherwise, both cases will be closed."

"I suppose that would still be better than nothing," Charlie said without much conviction.

"And Martha's accident and Bianca's disappearance?" Watson said.

"I know we all believe Miss Scott to have met an untimely demise, but officially, she is just a missing person and potential fugitive on the run, which isn't homicides domain, so other departments will continue to follow up on it," he said. "However, since we know unofficially that Angelo was the driver and he's now dead, I daresay that this too, will be placed in the cold case files. Without any new leads, we just don't have the manpower or resources to run cases indefinitely."

"We don't want to give up on this Charlie and we'll keep digging for as long as we're allowed," Graves assured them.

"We may only have until end of tomorrow to find something though," he said. "By then, we'll have the ballistics back and Gypsy Nash's confession will be formally submitted into evidence and she'll be transported to the city."

"With us likely following close behind her," said Graves. "Since our job might be done here, whether we like it or not."

"I thought a confession was meant to be a great result," murmured Watson. "Yet I feel cheated and empty."

"We all do," Robertson said. "I still intend to put in the best arguments I can to continue with the investigations, I just can't make any promises that I'll succeed."

"We appreciate you trying," Charlie said. "Don't we, Georgie?"

"Yeah of course we do," she said. "You've both done a great job to this stage and I won't hold it against you if you're ordered to stop. You've done everything you can."

"I do have a bit of news that might cheer you up," he said. "As I expected, no action is to be taken against you for your assault on Angelo," he told Watson. "Having what I overheard him saying to you, get out, isn't in anyone's best interests, so the matter is dropped. Nevertheless, should you find yourself in any further trouble at work, they may change their mind on that, so for god's sake, pull your head in and keep it down."

"I intend to," she said. "And thanks for going in to bat for me. I realise you didn't need to do that, so thanks."

"As far as I was concerned, Angelo deserved it," he said. "But don't tell anyone I said that." Robertson got to his feet. "Well ladies, there's no reason for any of us to remain here any longer today," he said. "Tomorrow, we'll find if the gun matches, I'll make some calls, then we'll move on from there. Good day ladies."

"What do you think he and Leah were up to on their date?" Watson asked of Graves the moment he'd left the room.

"I prefer not to know what Robert gets up to outside of work," she replied. "I'm not sure I could deal with proof that he might be human after all."

Charlie chuckled and even Watson smiled at that.

"Now I'm going to follow him in getting out of here," she said. "My girlfriend needs some attending to."

"How is Shannon?" Charlie asked her.

"Pretty shaken up and feeling a bit foolish," replied Graves. "I'm just glad she's ok. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Bye," said Charlie.

Watson breathed a heavy sigh of relief. "I really dodged a bullet there."

"It was the right decision," Charlie said. "Not that I approve of what you did, but under the same circumstances, I might have done the same and smacked him one."

"No you wouldn't have," she said. "You have a control over your emotions that I never have."

Charlie reached out and placed her hand on her cousin's knee. "You're learning to though Georgie."

"About bloody time, Martha would say."

"Come on," she said. "The party might be over by now, but we both have some very beautiful women to get home to, so let's not waste any more time here."

"I really am sorry for earlier," Shannon said as she snuggled against her girlfriend's side on the couch. "I really don't know what got into me."

"You're safe, that's all that matters." Graves kissed her temple. "I'm not sure who was more scared though."

"Pretty sure it was me," Shannon said and Graves chuckled. "So, it really might be all over tomorrow then?"

"I'm kind of hoping that it isn't over," said Graves. "I don't like leaving behind unfinished business and if we're told to shut up shop tomorrow, then that's exactly how I'll feel."

"It's not your fault though."

"I know," she said. "If I do have to leave in the next couple of days, how soon can you follow me to the city now that your car is all fixed and ready?"

"You'll see me in your rear vision mirror," Shannon told her.

"You're sure about this?" she murmured. "About us hooking up in the city?"

Recalling the depth of emotions and the way her girlfriend had held her earlier that day when she'd been so scared, Shannon nodded. "I want this," she said. "I want to be with you." And without realising she even intended to say it, the next words just popped out. "Because I'm in love with you."

"It sucks, but can't say that I'm all that surprised," Martha said once she and Joey had been filled in on everything. "I've come to accept that I may never know what happened to Jack or to you that night," she said to her girlfriend. "I hate having to accept it, but I'm not going to let it hold me back."

"Something still might come up," Watson said. "You're right though, there's no point in dwelling on it." Martha grinned at her and Watson smiled wryly in reply. "Hey, I'm learning."

"I must say, I'm liking this calmer, more reasoned you."

"As long as I am not too calm and reasoned in some circumstances, right?" she said with a suggestive smirk.

"Right," Martha smirked back as she lent in for a kiss.

Charlie cleared her throat. It was amazing how her cousin and Martha could block out the presence of others in the room. She wished she could do it.

Watson and Martha turned their attention to their hosts.

"I realise that one of the reasons for you staying here, was to be united against the media and now that they're gone, it's safe to go home," said Charlie. "But I'd like for you to stay the night. Leave the worry about getting all your stuff home tomorrow and just spend the rest of today relaxing with us."

Martha looked to her girlfriend, who shrugged. "Staying is fine by us," Martha said. "Besides, Jay is already tucked in and asleep and I'd rather not wake him."

"Then that's settled," said Joey. "Who'd like some more food and drink?"

There was a universal chorus of 'me'.