New Tricks2003

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DAC Robert Strickland:
Got a minute?

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
Yes.

DAC Robert Strickland:
Something interesting. [hands her a file] Leslie Hewitt, a nineteen year old student at the Royal Academy of Music; she played the violin. September the seventh 1996 Leslie left college at three o'clock in the afternoon to head back to the flat she shared in Camden. She was last seen walking into a park.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
No body?

DAC Robert Strickland:
No, no body, no witnesses. Vanished into thin air.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
And now?

DAC Robert Strickland:
And now... uh, this. [hands her a bagged photo]

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
This is her, is it?

DAC Robert Strickland:
Leslie Hewitt's sister, Emma, her only surviving family member, found the picture loose inside a book, in the charity shop where she works. We don't know who the photographer was. The photo's been scanned and cleaned up as much as possible. If we can identify any of the people in the picture, they could prove to be valuable witnesses.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
The jogger.

DAC Robert Strickland:
Yes, I saw him. It's a park; it could just be a man jog...

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
A nineteen year old music student - she fits the victim profile.

DAC Robert Strickland:
There is no victim profile.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
No, not officially, because I wasn't allowed to pursue it!

DAC Robert Strickland:
And this is not a green light to pursue it now! There's no way that figure's clear enough to identify, anyway.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
This guy could have seen him! Or he could just be a jogger. I'll put it on the board.