Tuesday, 14 October 2008

'Broken Taboos' Upper Down Town

13th October 2008. Arson Fire (9)
The clear up of the successful operation goes well, the squad give a fine account of themselves to the reporter from 13th Victim (Michel Hughes) Meridian in particular doing very well in front of camera.
Shortly before the end of the night Gemma turns up to tell all the team that the BPN is done and transfer them there credits and assign them the SCL level increase she also happens to inform them that she can get them a financier if they wish, in the end leaving them a card for "Edward Conrad Financier to the stars".
A New BPN
The squad decide to take a couple of days off, before sending "grubby" to the BPN hall to look for something interesting. After nearly 6 hours Harry returns with a nice shiny white one.
After a short phone call to Ms Pilgrim they decide to start in the morning.
Newton Towers Job Centre, Down town
After a uncomfortable trip on public transport the team arrive at the depressing edifice that is the dole offices at Newton towers and after a little run around get the information about the BPN direct from Megan (who is a frumpy forty something office manager). She tells them that some files (the so called dead files, where the claimant has missed there signing date by more than a week) and 4 employees (Jerome Petty 6 months in the Job , Marvin Allford in job 3 years , Wanda Booker 10 years & Eleanor Hampton 5 years) have gone missing, during the past month.
Hunting for Clues
The team quickly go to search the areas that the missing employees where last seen (they where all away from there desks or normal work positions when last seen). The 2 paper file rooms, rest room, toilets & lockers are examined. The squad quickly come to these conclusion there appears to have been a lot of maintenance in a place that has not been touched in years. The mainly non working CCTV system appears to have random intermittent faults that follow a pattern allowing someone move about unseen. The filing cabinets show signs of lock picking and several have been recently replaced.
Too much of a good thing?
The company with the maintenance contract DataTech has a regular maintenance engineer Russ Allen who has been coming here once per quarter for a few years, but two months ago just after his regular visit 2 new guys from DataTech showed up to over a couple of weeks and fixed up a load of stuff. The squad discover that the visitors book only shows Russ signing in over that time period even thoe the securty guards claim that he was only there once.

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