Contact?
Shaz drove back towards the police station thinking about the dead woman they had found hours earlier. She knew that she would spend the next few hours going through the databases looking for a missing female that could maybe be the dead woman. The thought that Alex, ma'am would be on one of the databases made her stomach churn. The sound of the phone ringing distracted her as she pressed the button for hands free.
"DC Grainger." She had already known it would be Chris on the other end of the line. "Any luck?"
"That would be a big fat no." Ray chimed in before Chris had a chance to speak.
"Same ere. No one saw anything. No one heard anything and no one knows anything. Someone is lying and it's doing me ed in." Shaz sighed.
"I know." Chris paused. "You had any missed calls?"
"Today? No. Don't think so." She turned the car onto the High Street, glad that the police station was less than five minutes away. "Why?"
"I have had three. They can't all be Ppi."
"Oh they are a nuisance." Shaz sympathised with her husband. "I'm almost at the station. Where are you?"
"Five minutes away." Chris answered as Ray drove in silence. Both men feeling decidedly uneasy about the apparent coincidence of the calls and the dead woman's likeness to Alex.
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"Right." Gene stood with his hands on his hips staring at the map he had Viv drag out of the archives. " Where the 'ell did you get this from? 1983?"
Viv raised an eyebrow. He knew the Guv was only venting but he didn't want to be the one on the receiving end.
"Yeah. It's old but we do have maps online now." Viv watched as Gene muttered something about technology as Shaz and Annie both marched onto the office. Annie looked on the verge of tears as Shaz bounced in behind her.
"Chris had three missed calls. He never had them before."
Gene huffed, wondering exactly what Alex was trying to tell them. And why she wasn't actually speaking to anyone when she did call. Sam began drawing on the map as Viv and Annie strained to see what he was doing. "Sam?"
"She has to have access to a phone. For some reason she isn't able to talk but she is trying to get a message to us."
"Why can't she talk?" Chris frowned as Annie and Sam looked at each other. Ray glared at him as Gene walked back to his office.
"Dunno." Ray glared ."But She is trying to make contact."
"Question is, where is she?" Sam looked at the map as he tried to work out what his friend was trying to tell them. He circled the position on the map that showed where the station was, Chris and Shaz's house and his own. "Ray? Get the Guv. Now. I think I know what she was trying to tell us. Just hope I'm not too late."
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