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Leaving Gibbon alone in the interview rooet a coffee in the break room

“He’s right,” says Stor to crack under interview pressure We’ve got no hard evidence We’re going to have to let hio”

“I don’t like it,” says Leo “He’s one arrogant bastard There’s soot no alibi If we let hiry I wouldn’t put it past hio to the hospital to shut India up”

“It doesn’t make sense,” says Storm “Rachel was the one he fancied She was the one as leading hiirl he wanted and abduct the one he didn’t want? He showed no interest in India at all”

“Maybe he ot it into his head that he wanted to abduct Rachel Things rong and he killed her by accident, so he decided India would do instead”

Storm shakes his head “He’s a bully, but he’s a coward He liked Rachel because she was the sweet one The one he thought he could manipulate and control But India was a olf He didn’t want India He wanted the girl that he could irl ould kneel, the soft one ould feed his ego Not the one ould challenge him And he likes to operate in secret”

Storm downs the rest of his coffee “Rachel’s killer attacked the girls in the street where anyone could have seen it He didn’t care that both girls were together He was brutal and efficient Totally different MO to Kurt Gibbon I don’t think it was him”

Leo nods reluctantly “It looks like Rachel wasn’t quite the sweet Miss Innocent that everyone thought she was Which ht be other people with a motive to hurt her We should let Diana have a crack at Gibbon before we let hi he’s not telling us”

Stor with the other Diana does not answer The call goes straight to voice tired these past couple of days He leaves her a s up He’ll offer to send her a car if she feels up to co to let a little tiredness get in her way

“Do you think this thing about so

Gibbon is related or a coincidence?” asks Leo

Monroe sticks his head into the break roohtens Clearly he had been looking for them

“DI Zael’s guy finally got the footage ere after,” he says “It’s the video from outside where Rachel Garrett was killed They refused to send it earlier, said they were reviewing it, but I doubt they got a lead off it You’ll want to see it”

Storm and Leo follow him back to his desk He presses play on his coe black and white It shows Rachel and India arguing near the parking bay gate A car pulls in, its headlights on, er back a few steps towards the gate The license plate is not visible in the glare of headlights The car waits but the girls are too busy shouting at each other to get out of its way India is waving her ar

The car’s door opens A figure eirls, as if to break up their fight The figure jabs so at India’s neck She looks backwards, startled Then her knees buckle and she collapses on the ground Rachel runs to India She reaches for her She leans down The figure stabs her in the back The arc of the knife is brutal It flashes again and again, relentlessly Rachel falls on top of India, trying to protect her The figure drags Rachel by the hair off of India and unleashes a flurry of frenzied stabbing until Rachel stopsIt is over in less than a minute