>As they left, Joe said nothing. Not until they were well gone.
>
>"They are hiding something. Something big. The tactics are quite simple, drag
>things out and make things go so slowly that everymove is a waste. Slow things down
>so they can make up an airtight cover story and dispose of what they can not cover.
>Quite elegant... By the way, nice moves in there. Are you sure that you hve not done
>this before?"
>
>A smile was the initial response from the station's XO. "I am positive that I have
>never done any sort of criminal investigation, but thank you very
>much for the compliment. I simply followed your lead. Besides, I could sense that
>he was trying to hide something as well."
>
>"Are you sure you have not does this before... You look like this is old hat to
>you..." Joe answered kidding the XO. "But seriously, I think that we should do some
>checking on our own into the whereabouts of this courier. How he got here, where he
>was before coming here, and the like. The only way that we are going to resolve this
>is to be a step or two ahead of Rivik and the others working for him.
>
>In more than a few of my open cases that I am working, Rivik and others in the
>Bajoran Embassy keep coming up. Something is happening in there... When we meet with
>them again at 1500, I plan on issuing a material witness order
>for the courier. That way we can keep him on the station, and take his
>travel papers. I will have to go to a judge to get that, but I think that I can pull
>a string or two to have it ready by the time our meeting arrives. Afterall, we can
>not have our only witness/suspect leaving on us now can we...."
>
>Dais nodded. "You are correct. I will try to get a flight plan on his latest trips
>for you. It could be helpful in identifying where the hand and itsowner met up with
>him."
>
>"See what you can find out. Let's hook up before the meeting at the embassy, say
>1400. We can compare notes and plan our sitdown with the courier."
>
>"Sounds like a plan," replied the XO. "I will see you then."
>
>With that the two departed. Dais made his way back to Operations. After checking
>over the reports, it was clear that all was being handled. He made
>his way over to his office and tried to access the passenger lists of the arriving
>ships from the previous day, particularly the one that the Bajoran courier arrived on.
>
The reports that came back indicated nothing out of the usual on the incoming
flights and dockings. However, he did notice that the Bajoran Courier took a round
about course to get to Spacedock. He had left Bajor and arived at DS9, then to a
civilian run trading station known as Viar's Oasis ( a well known trading post for the
seedy underworld and Intell/Black Ops types), then on to Aplha Centauri, and finally
Spacedock. A strange route for a diplomatic courier.
{thoughts}
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