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Sam recounted his surveillance of Hal Preston. His suspicions had been aroused when Hal had come into the station the day after the last fire. Hal had been almost giddy with the prospect of writing the story. Sam had intended to tell Bev he was going undercover the night that he had seen she and Hal lip locked in her kitchen. Bev tried to defend her actions, but he re-assured her it didn't take long for him to figure out that she and Hal were not an item and that Hal was dangerous. He had seen that Bev tried to contact him, but he didn't want Hal to connect the two of them, little did he know that he already had.
There were many mundane hours of sitting outside the newspaper office and Hal's remote home. Sam had misjudged Hal's intelligence, a big mistake. He had just checked in w
