Sandra was just about to go and speak with Hyacinth when she bumped into Gerry and Rose on the steps leading down to UCOS' headquarters.
"I might have known you were behind his disappearance" she said, without a trace of sarcasm in her voice.
Rose just looked at her and smiled awkwardly, "I suspect you are wondering why I am here" she began.
"Well I doubt you are here to help Gerry with his work" Sandra replied doubting if she was ready to put this to bed once and for all.
"I came to apologise for my behaviour last night, I shouldn't have antagonised you like that. It was very childish of me." Rose did sound genuine and it took a lot for the short-skirted blonde to apologise, but even so Rose wanted Sandra to be the first to say sorry.
"Well that's very good of you but right now I need you to do something for me" Sandra replied, taking her by the elbow and pulling her away from Gerry's surgical grip.
"And why should I do something for you?" Rose snapped, not satisfied with how Sandra had taken her apology.
"Because you see those three interview rooms" Sandra said as if she was talking to a three year old, pointing to the doors that lead to the rooms used for questioning.
Rose nodded and quipped "If you think I'm stupid you ought to think about how you talk to blondes, what with you being closer to platinum than me and at least I bother to touch up my roots, I've seen night time lighter than those roots."
"I bet you have. For your information, Rose, behind those doors are members of your family."
"Oh you have to be kidding me, I know you aren't best pleased about me and Rose but did you really have to drag her family into your petty games?" Gerry piped up putting a protective arm around Rose.
"If you had been here, Gerald, you might have known that your girlfriend's father is our prime suspect, her brother-in-law was a witness and her sister has been lying to the police." Sandra said, once again the anger was taking its toll.
"What, that can't be right our Daisy would never lie." Rose cried.
"Not her, Hyacinth." Sandra clarified.
"Hyacinth?! Oh give over, what's going on?" Rose laughed bemused at the prospect of her eldest sister being detained for questioning by the police. That would not sit well she thought.
"Well if you don't believe me, feel free to see for yourself" Sandra said.
"No it's fine, I don't want to put you to any extra trouble" Rose said taking out her compact and powdering her bony cheeks with yet more blusher. "What is it you want me to do?"
"Your father won't tell us anything; we thought a relative might help him feel more comfortable and get him talking" Sandra explained still holding a standoffish pose.
"And what makes you think I would want to help you nick my father?" Rose said folding her arms in fury.
"Your father is in a lot of trouble and things will get a whole lot worse for him, unless he talks" Sandra said fixing her icy blue stare on Rose's much warmer blue gaze.
Rose turned to look at Gerry who just shrugged; he did not want to get caught up in the pair's second showdown which was ironic as it was he that had really caused all this tension between the feisty pair.
"It doesn't look like have much choice doesn't, right where do you want me" she said plumping up her blonde locks.
"That door there, number two. Wait there until I have interviewed your sister." Sandra ordered.
"Good luck" Rose sneered, ensuring she would be the one to have the last word.
Once Rose had been escorted by Brian to the interview room which housed her father, Gerry turned to Sandra. "Guv, can I 'ave a word?"
"That's six, Gerry."
"Ha bloody ha! Sandra, what the hell do you think you are playing at?!" He barked, his words echoing throughout that floor of the station.
"My job Gerry, you should try it sometime."
"I mean how the hell do you know it is Rose's family behind this, she was right you have been checking up on her." He said feeling more than a bit betrayed.
"Only accidently, when Mrs Bucket, sorry 'Bouquet' received a phone call while we were there, it was from her sister Daisy, she rang to say she was worried about Rose who had gone to London to look up an old boyfriend, sound familiar." She smiled.
"And you knew this all along?!"
"Well, what can I say I am a top rate detective, which is more than can be said for you." She replied, sounding and feeling superior.
"Ah, so that's why you kept me out the way when we got to the father's house, so I wouldn't find out you knew" he snarled, giving Sandra a run for her money when it came to being the angriest member of the Met.
"You will thank me in the long run, now if you will excuse me I have to conduct an interview with your sister-in-law."
"Jealous" Gerry said as she walked down the corridor, like Rose he didn't like it when Sandra had the last word.