The Hole in The Wall - Season 1 - Episode 24

4 years ago

The Hole in The Wall - Season 1 - Episode 24

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In less than an hour I pulled into the police station. I dialed the number as I inched about slowly looking for a place to park.

Terry picked his phone on the 3rd ring. “Hello?” he said breathlessly
“Hey Terry its Rex…I’m at the station”
“Woa..that was so quick…You sure work fast””So wheres]’s your office or lab?” I said as I Observed two policemen studying us curiously.

“Just stay put…i’ll come get you”
“Alright….” I ended the call and began the tedious task of reversing and accelerating as I attempted to park between two armour tanks.
Two minutes later I watched the lanky frame of Terry through the rearview mirror as he came through the double doors and began looking about frantically. I thought he looked nervous.
“There he is” Bami said also watching him in the side mirror.

“Lets go, no use waiting here”
I tried to hold the bag nonchalantly like it contained something uninteresting but I was very aware of the two policemen under the tree who still studied us with interest.

Terry spotted us and smiled nervously. He glanced at the bag in my hand with obvious interest.

“Lets go…” he glanced at Bami and nodded
acknowledging his presence. That was his greeting.

“Lead the way” I said.
I had only got past the second floor of the metro station once and that was when the building was being commissioned by the governor a year ago. It was out of bounds to anyone without the MPD (metro police department) badge. I had a senior badge of course with access but I stayed well away from the station. Actually I haven’t really been involved with any case that would warrant a visit to the station recently. And also it was a known fact the police weren’t really fond of us, Me in particular. They scorned us and mocked us and called us unprofessional amateurs.

Andy rebellious as usual paid frequent visits to the station, to go through case files, interview inmates or whatever was useful to the case he was working at the time.

Although I suspect he did it mostly to get under their skin.

We took the stairs and Terry seemed more relaxed as he led the way, moving sideways so he could look at us as he spoke. “I haven’t turned in the evidence to storage yet if not that would have been a lot of stress with paper work and a lot of questions” he glanced at the bag and I knew what he meant.

“And you….you don’t have any questions?” Bami said from behind

“Oh….all the questions i have are answered in the lab. I’m not a detective like you….i’m a scientist” he led us past a narrow hallway with a big hall on one side and small cubicle offices on the other. He led us to the very end of the hallway and turned to a solid metal door.
“Here we are…” he said and brought out a bunch of keys.

The bag was beginning to get heavier and I guessed the ice was melting.

He fumbled with the keys for some seconds then he finally wrestled the gate open.
“Terry…what’s going on?” The voice was as sharp as glass and the three of us turned in suprise. She had her hands on her hips, and the but of the gun was visible in her holster. It was Dagnet.

Terry jumped guiltily at the sound of her voice “erm…we thought, that is these gentlemen here…..and here we are….” the words stumbled out ncoherently and i couldn’t help thinking he sounded like a voice over a faulty network.

Detective Dagnet frowned at him then she looked at me and Bami “What’s going on here?”

“We need Terry to run a DNA test with the evidence found at the crime scene yesterday” I said and watched her eyes go from interest to curiosity to bafflement. “Where is this dna exactly?” She asked but she was already looking at the bag.

I lifted it in response and her eyes followed it.
“Well…..” Terry said. He gestured with his hands at the open door and hurried into the office/lab. I knew he was in trouble, I could tell Dagnet was going to chew him later, maybe even write a report. The bitch.

Bami followed Terry into the lab and I followed sighing when Dagnet followed me and shut the door.

“So how did you get the DNA?” She asked
“Remember she was my fiance…we lived together, there’s a lot of her stuff that I haven’t touched”
“Oh….but the bag is big na…what kind of DNA is in there?”

“I don’t know” and I actually didn’t know. I had deliberately not looked at the contents of the ziplock bag.
“How can you not-”
“Hey, lady…this is not an interrogation room, we’re in a lab..” Bami said exasperatedly
“Actually there’s an inner room over there…that’s where I work” Terry pointed at an adjoining door. His voice had gotten a little bass in it and he went to the zinc and washed his hands with a liquid soap that smelled of lemons. He took a towel from a rack and dried them. “You’ll need to wash your hands” he said akwardly, glancing at Dagnet he changed his mind. “Or you can wait here….It wouldn’t take long”

But I was already at the zinc. I dropped the bag carefully on the floor then squirted the soap in my palm. “You know….I’d like to be there”
Dagnet didn’t look too pleased but she washed her hands after Andy.

“Gloves and face mask are in the basket over there” Terry pointed to a small basket divided into two compartments by a tree branch. On one side was latex gloves in pairs and the other nose masks.

We ‘suited up’ without a word while Terry waited patiently. After all his previous non stop chatter he was silent now.

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