–Yes, he is a participant in a scientific conference, – Spencer replied, -and where did the client go last night? That's what we're going to find out from the cabbie. We got his number.
–Well done, good job.
–The cabbie said that he dropped his client to the "Sherlock Holmes" restaurant.
– That's great. Send an employee over there right away. Have him go through all the video recordings footage and get a picture of the lady.
Soon the detectives had an image of Yesenia in their hands.
–I seem to remember her, – Spencer said, – let's play through the footage of the first day of the client's arrival.
–Here, look. It was she, who was with him when client checked in.
–She booked a room for him, the porter recalled.
–Who paid for the room?
–It's strange, but this is not the organizing committee of the conference. It was paid in cash by this particular lady.
–Well, well – this already smells like a planned action,– said Inspector Johnson, – the criminals needed your doctor to settle in this hotel. Why?
–Yes, because the sewer of London passes under us, and from there it is easiest to go unnoticed to the Thames. Let's go down to the basement.
The detectives put on knee-high rubber boots, put on respirators, and opened the door to the sewers.
–Normally the entrance is locked, but on this day the door was open,– Spencer said.
–Well, it's clear that someone tried in advance. It's probably from the pest control team you called the day before. Everything is professionally planned. And here is your client phone or what is left of him.
Johnson shined a flashlight on the wreckage of Solomon's phone.
–Completely broken, beyond repair. And the SIM card must have been thrown far into the Thames. Your client was kidnapped and lured here, stunned and taken away. No mobile, no peeling. What was his job?
–A major specialist in the plague.
–Wow! It smells like bioterrorism. We need to call it counterintelligence. He will soon be loaded onto a foreign ship and taken away.
–He is our client. He must be found.
–What can we do? Lots of precious time was wasted.
They returned to Spencer's office.
–So it is. A professionally planned kidnapping of a bioweapon specialist.
–Sir, here's the fingerprint data, – Johnson's deputy reported, -belonging to two different people. In the criminal file cabinet, it does not appear.
–There is data from the border control database that Solomon Grande arrived from Armenia 3 days ago. The second person's fingerprints are not identified.
