Psych Assessment

by elsiecarson

When Grace gets a call from the Home Office to do a psychological assessment on Boyd she decides to let him in on the process since she doesn't know how she can make a fair assessment and help Boyd keep his job. Boyd and Grace both know he's volatile and so they basically have to rig the assessment.

13. Pull Everything We Have

"Spence and I are going to look at missing persons reports around the time the car was reported stolen and the minister was killed." Mel tells Boyd.

"Pull the file on the minister's assassination and see about who they had as suspects. My guess would be they didn't dig very far for evidence." Boyd says seriously.

"Why do you think that, Boyd?" Mel asks curiously as she leans against the doorframe.

"Just because of the attitudes during that time. If the evidence even suggested that Irish terrorism was involved it probably was and the suspect was not going to be caught, so most cases were just left unresolved. When Irish terrorists were killed it didn't matter, but the Met was always quick to blame Irish terrorists for unexplained deaths in Britain." Boyd explains.

"Do you remember that vividly, Boyd?" Mel asks enquiringly.

"Yeah, I do. I'm sure Grace remembers all of this too, but I was just starting out on the force so I got all the covert instructions on how to handle cases as they came up." Boyd says sincerely.

"I can't believe that. It sounds so conspiratorial and Draconian." Mel shakes her head and leaves Boyd and Grace in the office.