After the successful investigation into the murder of Donald and Janet Jarrett, Grace, rather naively, assumed her ‘temporary’ assignment to West Garside might be rescinded and she would could return to ‘main line CID duties’ at the HQ of South Yorkshire Police in Sheffield.
But then, ACC Vickers told her he was making the transfer permanent, overriding her objections. ‘It’s there or nowhere, Grace, I need team players as I told you before and you are not a team player.’
‘You mean I’m not a sycophant like your other creatures’, she answered bitterly. She could see that whatever she said, Vickers was not going to be swayed.
‘Sycophant or team player, whatever gets the job done,’ he told her, ’I don’t care what colour the cat, as long as he catches the mouse.’
‘I’m a bloody good mouser
