“We found the recording device in the ashes of the car,” Perez lied smoothly. “The metal casing survived. It has your voice on it, Mr. Slater. Telling Connor you’d ‘put his mother in the North Sea’ if he didn’t do one last job.”
Perez looked out at the dark water. “Slater was a cleaner. A fixer. The men who hired him are still out there. They’re on a boat right now, probably, watching us through a scope.” shetland s07e02 msv
“Detective Perez,” Slater said, closing his suitcase. “I was just about to call you. Terrible about the Cairns boy. A real tragedy.” “We found the recording device in the ashes
The room went quiet. Oil theft. Not a few barrels siphoned from a depot, but industrial-scale siphoning from the Brent system. A crime that required local knowledge, a mechanic to prep the boat, and a reason to kill the mechanic when he had second thoughts. Slater