After Dinner SpeakingLunch over, the four detectives gathered once more in the office of Sean Connor. It would be a short meeting as Carrick and Cole had to leave for their return journey to Birmingham by mid-afternoon. They still had their own independent investigation to continue in the West Midlands and their own investigative team would be awaiting their return in order to find out what the two men had learned from their counterparts on the Richmond end of the investigation.
As they took their seats around Sean Connor's desk it was Connor himself who voiced the one point that had been on all of their minds since the morning meeting and which now needed discussing before the two teams separated.
“There is of course one scenario that we must seriously consider,” he began; “and that is
