Disclaimer: Neither Rizzoli & Isles nor Scott & Bailey belong to me. I am merely borrowing the characters.

Manchester and London UK

Maura was not doing well. She was in a cell at Didsbury Police Station. Over the last two hours since she'd arrived in Manchester she'd been told at gunpoint to lie flat on the sidewalk, had her hands cuffed behind her back, had to lie face down on the ground in cuffs with multiple guns pointed at her head for what had seemed like hours.

Eventually she'd been unceremoniously and painfully picked up by the handcuffs and thrown into the back of a Police van. She'd then been driven at high speed to this place where she been placed in a cell and had the cuffs removed. She'd been told to wait. The door had shut and been locked.

She didn't know what had happened to her luggage or her shoulder bag. For some reason she felt very anxious about this.

The cell door opened.

"Maura Isles, as you have been arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 you will now be transported to a secure Police station for questioning. Please hold your wrists together like this in front of you so my colleague can cuff you." The officer showed how Maura was to hold her wrists. She complied and was cuffed.

She noticed that the cuffs were different to any type she'd seen before. The two wrist restraints were joined by a solid black piece which appeared to be plastic and by which she was now being lead.

She eventually went through a door into the yard where a different van from the one she'd arrived in awaited her. She was lead up some steps into the side of the van, handed over to someone in a different uniform and then into an internal compartment. The door to which was closed and locked. She heard the outside door being closed. The door to her compartment was then unlocked and opened and her handcuffs were removed. The door to the inner compartment was re-closed and locked. She heard someone shout "Prisoner secure for transport!" and after a few minutes the van started moving.

At another Manchester Police Station Constance was similarly being secured for transport.
Maura's sense of time was shot. She remembered the van pulling out of the yard. She remembered it taking many twists and turns which seemed to take an age before suddenly it sped up.

Then she must have fallen asleep because the next thing she remembered was that the van had stopped. The door to her cell had been opened and she was being offered a drink and the loo (internal to the van). After this break the van continued south down the M6 and then the M1.

At the southern end of the M1 the van turned left then right and made its way to the high security entrance to Paddington Green Police Station. Separately a team of tier 5 interviewers had been briefed on the case and were preparing an interview strategy.

After Maura had been removed, in handcuffs, from the van, she was lead down several flights of stairs. She formerly had her custody record updated by the custody sergeant and was then lead to a cell where her handcuffs were removed and the cell door closed and was locked.

Maura noticed several differences between this cell and the one she had been previously held in. For starters there was a television and cd player. But the most curious feature was that the cell was lined with brown paper. Maura thought this odd until she realised that this was to prevent cross contamination from one prisoner to another.

Maura turned on the TV and watched the BBC 24 hour news channel for a bit. Then the cell door opened.

"Your solicitor's here" a woman walked into the cell.

"I am Roisin O'Callahan, I work for Gareth Peirce. Gareth apologises for not being able to be here herself but she is ill at the moment."

"Sorry?" Maura was confused.

"Umm a Mrs Angela Rizzoli called our office and told us of your arrest and instructed us to represent you."

"Oh" Maura realised that Angela must have been called by Jane and she'd called this... what? Solicitor they had said. "What are you? No disrespect but I need a lawyer."

"Yes it is confusing. In this country lawyers are divided into two professions. Firstly Barristers who have traditionally represented people in court and secondly Solicitors who actually do the work. I am a solicitor."

"Oh" Maura was none the wiser except that this woman was a lawyer of some sort.
"OK have they explained to you the reasons for your arrest and cautioned you?"
Maura confirmed that they had.

"Under the Terrorism Act 2000 you can be held for 14 days without charge. Because of this you have a telly..." at Maura's puzzled look Roisin explained "Sorry! That's a British term for a television. And a CD player in your cell."

Roisin went on to confirm Maura's suspicions about the brown paper.

"Are there any favourite CD's or DVD's I can get you? You might like to view this, it is a feature film called 'In the Name of the Father' which is based on a real case in which Gareth took part, she is played by Emma Thompson. We tease her about that occasionally.

"As a result of the case depicted in the film and others all Police interviews are now videotaped to make sure that the despicable practices portrayed do not happen now. Do not expect the interview to be easy to go through, it will be tough and thorough."

She handed Maura a DVD.

Maura gave a list of other DVDs and CDs she'd like.
"OK try and get some sleep now, we'll talk again before you are interviewed at 10am tomorrow." with that Roisin hit the cell call button, the door was opened and she left, the door was locked behind her.

Maura thought about the name of the woman's boss, Gareth was a male name. But Rosisin had used female pronouns to describe Gareth and Gareth had been played by a female actor in the film...

Maura lay down on the bed and she was so tired that even though the mattress wasn't very comfortable she fell asleep quickly.

In another cell in the same Police Station Constance was trying to work out how to extricate herself and Maura from the situation. Without immediate success.