Chapter 7

Angel sat on the cushioned love seat in the living room and looked out at the ocean. She was lost in her thoughts about what Dr. Perrot said to her earlier. She looked through the documents, again for the one-thousandth time, but the words were the same to her.

"Miss Angel?" a voice said and she almost jumped. Angel looked to see Toad with Captain Biggins and she stood up from the seat.

"Detective, we have some trouble," her boss said to her.

"What kind of trouble?" Angel asked.

"Well, Mr. Danny Wilcox and his son, Travis went out for their regular crab hunting and according to Lillian, Danny's wife, they usually come back before sunset. Now it's almost dark and Lillian is getting worried," Biggins explained.

"Has anyone radioed them?" Angel asked.

"I did sent a call out to their boat, but no answer," Biggins answered, "I was wondering if you and I check out what they're doing."

Angel nodded and went to retrieve her jacket, gun, and flashlight, and went with her boss to the boat yard. They took a police portal boat and headed out just as the sun disappeared on the horizon.

"Davey," Angel said after taking a look at the radar screen, "There's something ahead, about 10 kilometers from here." True to her word, a shape appeared in the blackness and Biggins shown his flashlight on it.

"Look at that," he said. The figure was a motorboat, but it was empty and it appeared to be anchored. "It's the Wilcox's boat," Biggins informed Angel.

Angel knew right away that something was very wrong and she shown her flashlight on the water surrounding them, but there was nothing to see. "I'm going in the water," she said and searched for a wetsuit and goggles.

Once Angel was fully equipped, she took an underwater flashlight and went in. She swam toward the boat and shined her flashlight in the water. Then, what she saw nearly made her scream. Two bodies were strung by their necks with the anchor's string and they were beyond help.

Angel immediately headed up and went back to the portal boat. "We got bodies!" she exclaimed when she got back on the boat. Angel and Biggins went to work in retrieving the bodies of Danny and Travis Wilcox. The two were laid on the police boat and Angel placed tarps over them and Biggins hoisted the anchor and tied the Wilcox's boat to the police boat.

"Crap!" Angel exclaimed when she looked over the two bodies, "They have been stabbed!"

"This is getting out of hand, Angel. I don't how the mayor will explain this to the people," Biggins said, "I mean, we need more time in finding the two psychos!"

"I agree," she replied as the police boat headed back to town.

When they got back, a coroner's van had arrived to take the Wilcox's back to the morgue. "Please, don't tell me the echo-terrorists struck, again," Dr. Gideon pleaded Angel, but Angel had to nod.

At town hall, the councilmen and the mayor had been summoned out of bed and they met with Angel and Captain Biggins and they explained of their discovery. "Mayor Giroux, you have to reconsider about opening the beaches on Canada Day," Angel pleaded.

"I will not be made an enemy to the people! The beaches will open in time for Canada Day, whether you like it or not!" the mayor shouted and adds, "You have three more days to find and capture these lunatics and I hope you spend every hour in locating them, day and night!"

Angel was furious and she let it out, "Why are you doing this?! Are you willing to risk people's lives with two serial killers on the loose?"

"I am also willing to risk people's lives this upcoming winter? No, because I want every tourist dollar counted at the end of Canada Day and I hope it will be enough to pay off my heating bills!" the mayor replied, angrily and he left, leaving a stunned silence in the room.

"That little prick!" Biggins said, angrily, but Angel did not say a word.

Biggins took Angel home and she went inside, hoping to not wake her daughter, who was usually asleep by this hour.

"Angel?" she heard Mok's voice from their bedroom's porch. She didn't reply, instead, Angel took off her shoes and went to take a hot bath in the Jacuzzi tub. She felt like falling asleep in the tub and perhaps drown in the water.

Then, Mok came in and came by her side. "Angel, what's wrong?" he asked, placing a hand on her cheek.

"The mayor is nothing but a coward," Angel answered and she explained of what happened earlier.

"Damn," Mok cursed, "And you are certain it is the same killers?" he asked and she nods. "Angel, I'm so sorry. If I was there, I would've strangled Giroux," he added.

"Do you think I can find St-Pierre and Savage before Canada Day?" Angel asked.

"With you understaffed? I say no," Mok answered and hugged her tight. "If something happens on Canada Day, Giroux will probably be demanded, no, forced to leave office," he added.

Angel got out of the Jacuzzi, dried off, and prepared for bed. "Mok," she said to her husband, "I don't want the girls to be in the water, heck, not even within ten feet of it."

"You mean the ocean? Of course, I won't let them go near it," he replied and both of them succumbed to sleep.