Disclaimer: Rookie Blue does not belong to me. I am merely borrowing the characters.

Rookies from all over Toronto were called in to 15th Division to help with the field walk. They sat in what was, for most of them, an unfamiliar briefing room. Gail would open the briefing and Jo would close it. Adelina and Holly would provide the substantive information.

Gail started: "Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Project Orphan. We are here today to check a possible killing ground for any sign of human remains. A skeleton was found on Friday in woods adjoining Orlando Park. DNA confirmed in the early hours of this morning that the skeleton was that of Joan Abercombie, born May, 21st 1975 Bangkok, Thailand. Emigrated to Canada 1995, reported missing by her employer June, 24th 2008. She worked as a butcher." A hand went up. "Yes?"

"Sorry but this looks like a guy! I did hear you right 'Joan'? " Partridge didn't know it but he'd just walked into a trap, a trap no-one expected him to walk into – the procedure was under way.

"Have you done your LGBT sensitivity training?" asked Gail her blue suddenly gave the appearance of pieces of flint.

"No, I mean that stuff's a joke right?" Partridge kept digging.

"Ms Abercombie suffered from a rare form of a rare condition called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome or 'AIS' for short. The form she had meant that some cells in her body responded to testosterone and some did not."

This was too much for Partridge. "But he produced testosterone. So he was a guy?"

Gail turned to look at someone at the back of the room and nodded. The woman was from SIU, she stepped forward.

"Officer Partridge you are to come with me." she said.

"What?"

"Come on!"

Partridge thought about going for his gun until he saw that the two officers either side of him already had their hands already on their guns, as did Gail. He got up quietly and went with the woman. An arrest team outside took his gun. He would later hand in his badge.

Gail continued the briefing like nothing had happened. Holly and Adelina did their technical bits then Jo wound up.

"When you find anything, do not touch it. Raise a hand and wait for Dr Bizzet, Detective Peck, or Dr Lee to assess it."

A hand went up.

"What will you be doing?"

"The same as you. I don't have Detective Peck's level of expertise in this area. Buses are outside to transport you to the site. Let's go!"

As they left the station Frances turned to Gail and said "Did you plan that?"

"Not really. We didn't think he'd be that stupid but we had resources on hand in case he was."

Holly caught up with them and hugged Gail: "I'm so proud of you!"

Frances's smile said that she concurred.

By the end of the day four more skeletons had been found. Holly, Gail and Adelina would work with recovery teams through the night and a GPR survey had been ordered, it would be conducted the following day and recovery teams were going to be busy all week. In all 30 bodies in various states of decomposition would be found.

Steve rolled up at the scene Thursday evening.

"Congratulations. I gather you found a cemetery!" he said.

"Well technically two kids found it. But I had a role." replied Gail.

"I've been hearing impressive things little sister. Mom is delighted."

"That'll be a first. You sure you've not been talking to her body double."

Steve laughed. "Seriously, she's impressed!"

"90% luck, 10% timing! Mom used to say!"

"Ah but it's what you do with the luck that's important! You knew not to pressure Holly and waited till the final conclusions were in."

"Being her betrothed does that to me!"

"Mom, in fact the whole of the white shirts, are impressed with you both."

"I don't think Holly's impressed with herself. Thinks she should have seen it right away."

"She called in the right expertise to help her. That is what impresses them."

"I've been trying to get her to see that. She doesn't. She's asked me to co-author the paper with Dr. Bizzet. Dr Bizzet, well both of us, are saying we won't write it without her name on it too."

"I hear you're thinking about doing an Anthropology degree by correspondence course."

"Yeah, it seems more relevant to Police work than anything else and Holly thinks I need to study something! Adelina, Dr Bizzet says she'll help. She's been talking to Toronto University about setting up a Forensic Anthropology unit anyway"

"Holly's good for you!"

Gail nodded her eyes turned back to the crime scene.

By Friday night there were still five autopsies outstanding and Ruth was coming for the weekend.

Adelina suggested that since these five were all skeletons she should perform the autopsies. Luke suggested that Gail needed some rest. So both Holly and Gail would be free. A child's bed had been delivered on Thursday evening and installed into the spare bedroom.

All the bodies autopsied so far had been killed the same way. This was a major case. Luke was leading the project and Jo had insisted that he appoint Gail as one of his deputies, Jo herself was the other.

Sam, Andy and Traci were on the task force as were several members of Guns and Gangs including Steve. ETF were on standby to assist.

Luke told Gail to take a press conference on Friday morning, Luke said he had a meeting at HQ. Holly had been there to field questions about the medical side.

"Look Gail and sister Holly on TV!" said Ruth to her foster mom that evening when they watched the news. Elaine ordered two DVDs of the broadcast and watched it with admiration as Gail fielded some probing questions with, what the English would call, a very straight bat. If Luke had set her up to fail it had backfired.

Later that evening Elaine would call unannounced at the condo to give Gail one of the DVDs with a note that said she was very proud of her daughter. This would undo Gail who would cry tears of happiness.