A/N:Thanks to all my lovely reviewers, i.e.- Vikki, Becki, X-Kate-X, Sophie Phoenix, Chelsee and snozboz. You all make me happy :D

Chapter 4

Sam watched Danny Blue for a couple of minutes before approaching him. She now recognized the con he was doing. He would put down the Queen of Clubs and two other random playing cards, take the gullible players money, turn the cards over and would promise to pay them double if they found the queen of clubs after he shuffled them around. Of course, they never did. Throughout the whole shuffling process, Danny kept talking, and the split second the 'customers' looked at him and not the cards, he would switch the queen of clubs with one hidden up his sleeve. It was a simple con, yet nobody seemed to have realised yet. And no one seemed to realise no one had won yet. They just kept putting down their money, expecting themselves to be the lucky one. Eventually, Sam decided it was time to talk to him,

"Right who's next?" Danny asked, already dealing out the cards

"I am," Sam said, coming to stand in front of him

"Right, the game's simple, all you have to do is find the queen out of these 3 cards." He glanced up at her, and froze. Sam again saw the same look of recognition on his face that he had earlier. She saw him look around uneasily, perhaps looking for an escape route if things didn't turn out the way he hoped.

"Is there a problem?" she asked, impatiently. Danny cleared his throat, sounding nervous.

"I'm sorry, do I know you?" he asked, frowning. Sam smiled thinly. She'd had enough of idiotic men for one day. She decided to get right to the point.

"Maybe you do know me. But I know you, Danny. I know all about you and your gang." She barely suppressed a smirk as she saw his eyes widen in shock.

"You're… you're not a cop, are you?" he asked, what seemed to be genuine fear in his voice. Sam knew she wasn't going to get anything out of him if he was this scared of her, so she smiled pleasantly and said,

"Yes Danny, I am. DS Samantha Nixon" she extended her hand. Danny looked at her hand, but didn't shake it.

"And what exactly are you doing here, DS Nixon?" he said, the nervousness still there, but a new, determined note in his tone of voice. Sam hesitated. She knew that she couldn't give away the fact that they were watching the gang, so she instead said,

"I was just wondering if there's anything you could tell me about the assault in the bar your gang frequents."

"I didn't do it" Danny immediately blurted out, the determined streak gone, the look of fear back in his eyes. Sam wondered what had happened to make him so afraid of cops. Or maybe that just came with the line of work, but in her experience, crooks were usually confident and in control. This one was a mess. She decided to reassure him,

"We know that Danny. I was just wondering if you could tell us who did" she paused as she saw him look around wildly again and realised what he was looking for, "My colleague, DS Hunter is talking to Stacie at the minute" Danny seemed to visibly relax at hearing that the woman was safe. Neil had said he had feelings for her, but she hadn't been aware to what extent. Maybe they could use the girl against him later.

"I don't know anything" Danny said, breaking into her train of thought, looking her straight in the eye. Sam knew immediately that he was lying. Any good conman would know that looking someone in the eye usually made them believe you. She sighed, deciding she wasn't going to get anything more out of him this time.

"If you do learn anything, give me a call." Sam said, handing him her card. He didn't reply, just took the card and shoved it deep into his pocket.

"Is that all?" he asked, growing impatient, "Because I've got people waiting." He gestured to the growing crowd.

"That's all for now" she said, turning to leave, before pausing and saying, "Oh and Danny, if you're not going to play fairly, don't play at all"

"What do you mean?" he asked, faking innocence. She didn't reply, just slowly flipped all 3 cards on the table over to show that none of them where in fact the Queen of Clubs. She turned around and walked towards the waiting car, only glancing over her shoulder once to see the crowd turn on Danny. She almost felt sorry for him as he gathered up his cards and sprinted for the safe haven of the hotel. Almost, but not quite.

A/N: Now if you're all spectacular readers and press the big blue button for me, then I'll put some more Sam/Phil interaction in the next chapter. Come on, you know you want to :)