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"You’re saying you knoho the real killer is--whoever actually carried out the murders?"

"No I don’t knoho else is involved Obviously, with Helena dead, on’t be able to question her at the station and throw her off But we’ve found it--the tunnel," Sean said grih yet I will once the tech people are finished down there I’oes to the studio And I’m sure that’s how the killer escaped"

"Why did he leave Helena down there?" Madison asked

"I’ht away--in case we didn’t believe it was a suicide But now that Helena has been found, Alistair could be released soon" He was thoughtful for a minute "I also assume the killer didn’t think we’d ever find the tunnels He probably figured we’d go crazy trying to trace the tunnels through the studio, that it wouldn’t occur to us to backtrack"

"Can you or Logan speak to the DA or the ADA on the case? Alistair should be released now I don’t really understand the legal chain, but all they have to do is drop the charges against hie," Sean said "If they were to release Alistair--or even announce that they were releasing hian walked over to join them "Knox just told me they opened her car She left a suicide note on the driver’s seat"

Sean’s eyebrows shot up "There’s a suicide note?" he asked incredulously

"So I’ve been told They’ll test it forensically"

"I’an nodded "Forensics can try to match it to a printer--and we’ll start with the computers at the studio and Eddie’s house"

"I need to see that note," Sean insisted "I need to know exactly what it said"

"I’ll have Knox get it"

Sean turned back to Madison, as Logan hurried off "The police will have to close the studio again, but the work can go on until the last et a grip on what’s going on underground"

"Hoill they do that?"

"They’ll bring in a score of engineers We’ve just got to find out how the killer’s been using the labyrinth, get every bit of evidence frooing to happen with the studio?" Madison asked anxiously She orried sick about Eddie--first Alistair and now his wife But the studio meant a livelihood for so many people

"We’ll have to see," Sean told her "I don’t know"

Logan ca the letter Helena had supposedly written in a clear plastic evidence bag Sean read it aloud

"‘I can no longer bear the guilt and the shaive Eddie, forgive , and an asked

"Bull," Sean said "Helena LaRoux did not write this"

"It is draan murmured "And kind of sad She asks Eddie, Alistair and God to forgive her--but not Jenny, whom she killed"

"That’s because she didn’t write the letter"

Knox approached the aent Cameron, Eddie Archer has heard what’s happened We really don’t think he should come here Mike Greenwood is with him at his house, and Eddie wants you there, too"

"When the medical examiner’s taken the body and the forensics teao over to Eddie’s first"

"What should I do?" Madison asked

Knox looked at her "You should stay out of the way right now, Ms Darvil The teams will be busy for a while"

"Did Eddie want o ho through the floor you could go to the studio," he said, "Mr Sione in I still have ave her a white-lipped soing on"

"What do you want to do?" Sean asked her

"Clean up and go to work"