"Morning ma'am" Chris nodded his head towards Alex, looking up from his magazine. His feet were propped up on his completely empty desk, and his ears were plugged into his walkman.
"Morning Chris, nothing new I assume?" Alex asked, despite the fact she knew the answer. She sat down at her desk, gazing at the old paperwork that was no longer relevant.
"Nah, nothing at all ma'am, sorry." Chris replied, sighing before turning back to his magazine that he'd probably read at least 5 times already. Alex nodded once and let out a deep sigh, yet another day of doing nothing in CID. She began to rifle through the papers on her desk, piling them up, when her found her eyes subconciously drift over to the right, into DCI Hunt's office. It was empty, the office was deathly quiet, Gene Hunt was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's the Guv?" Alex asked her colleagues curiously, her eyes still on his office.
"Dunno ma'am, he hasn't been in all morning." Shaz replied, shrugging her shoulders.
"Oh, okay." Alex said slowly, slightly puzzled. It wasn't like Gene to be late into work, the force was his life, something must have happened. Alex then snapped out of her reverie as the double doors swung upon again, revealing her DCI with a young girl in tow, probably no older than fourteen years old.
"Guv! What the..?" Ray began, standing up as his superior entered.
"Good morning ladies" Gene nodded to them all, then strode purposefully into his office, dragging the girl behind him, who was struggling to keep up with his long stride. Alex watched them walk by, with a puzzled expression on her face. She then stood up, and along with her other colleagues, went walking up to Gene's office.
"Is there something you wanna tell us Guv?" Ray laughed, leaning against the door frame as Alex walked into the office. Gene planted the girl in his chair, then stood up behind her to face them.
"This is Elizabeth." Gene began.
"Lizzie." The girl piped up, with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Gene didn't look down at her, and continued.
"Elizabeth was found wandering along the street outside CID. She woke up this morning and found her dad was missing. She's been told to come here by a note that was left on her kitchen table. It wasn't in her dad's handwriting." He explained. The rest of the team continued to look confused. "Her surname is Sampson. She's Michael Sampson's bloody daughter, and he's bloody well pissed off and disappeared off the face of the bloody earth!" He knelt his knuckles on the desk angrily. Alex immediately realised who Michael Sampson was, he was the current deputy Prime Minister. Now they had a case to solve.