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“Talk to me people, what’s going on?” Harrison spoke urgently into his radio. He had no idea what had happened in the room where Constable Turner had been playing the part of Emily Wright, but it seemed clear to him that things had not gone well. If it had, the figure he believed to be their killer would not have reappeared in the passage, except in handcuffs, and he would not have been able to leave a constable immobile on the floor while he ran from the other.
“He got away, sir, sorry,” Melissa gasped into her radio as she left the room. “Sergeant Tracey’s down, I don’t know how badly he’s hurt, but it looks bad. Help’s on its way.” It hadn’t been an easy decision for her to make, to leave the injured sergeant after pressing the alarm button to summon help, but she was sure she had
