In a cold dark room, where only the sound of moaning and crying Sarah can be heard, as she prays to God to save her, she looks at the corpse lying next to her with blood everywhere and looks back at the ceiling in fear and despair: Help! Please help me!
Mark opened the door, inspecting the floor, and then asked: Do you smell gas?
Commander: Bring your weapon back, Lieutenant, if we use guns, it would be dangerous. I'll check upstairs and you will check this floor.
The commander enters the kitchen and closes the gas pipe and ventilated the place, but the candle that the staff put in began to melt, and the fires began to devour the curtains inside the rooms one by one, the smoke rose towards the sky, and the corridors became blurry, difficult to see over the pitch darkness.
He broke into the rooms and took the patients out quickly before the fire engulfed them and suffocated from the smoke. Who was still conscious and helped him to escort the patients out and put out the fires in the rooms they were able to enter.
Mark took out his flashlight to see, and the big nurse hid behind the wall for the right moment and then came out pretending to be tired: Help me! The place was on fire.
He asked him while shining the lamp on him: Who are you?
He lowered his hands and said: I am a nurse who works here, help me to save the patients please.
He put back his weapon and followed the nurse cautiously, Mark found some patients whom the Commander had taken out. He headed towards them and showed them the way out. One of the patients fell on the ground, and the huge nurse approached him to help, as soon as the nurse tilted his body the phone fell to the ground, Mark picked it up. Then he looked at the nurse with anger: Where is she?
He left the patient and straightened his stance, then looked at him with empty expressions: about to die.
He finished his sentence and attacked him, pushed him towards the reception desk. The patient ran away, the nurse tried to punch him, but Mark stopped him, kicked him away, then ran towards him and kicked his leg.
The nurse grabbed Mark by his clothes and held him while hitting him in the face and the nurse wrapped his arm around Mark neck to strangle him.
Mark noticed that there's a sofa next to him, so he tried to get close to it, then climbed on it to jump over him and free himself from the nurse. As soon as the nurse turned around, he hit him in the stomach, then punched him and he fell to the ground.
The police cars lights began to approach and they surrounded the building , the firefighters began to evacuate the place quickly, the commander came down and Mark said to him: I'm going to find Sarah.
He replied: Okay, I'll take care of this big one, be careful.
The smoke reached the operating room and the fire approached it, so Sarah called out: Save me! Is there anyone here!
She heard someone say: Sarah Where are you?
She said worriedly: Oh my God! I started hallucinating...
She heard him again: Sarah! If you can hear me, answer me! Where are you?
She said, "It's Detective Mark!"
She shouted: I'm here in the operating room! Please, help me!
Listen carefully to the sound, then he came forward and found the fire had already devoured the store, then he shouted, saying: I am here, just hold on!
He returned to the entrance and told the firefighters, then they put out the fire. He entered the room and found her bound and next to her was a dead body of a man with a split stomach. As soon as she saw him, she cried, so he quickly approached her and untied her handcuffs and helped her to sit. She hugged him tightly and cried. He hugged her in turn and wiped her head: I'm sorry for being late.
Everyone got out safely and the firefighters rescued those who were locked up in their rooms.
Sarah sat in the ambulance and a paramedic supervised her treatment. While Mark went to talk to the commander, the commander said: "We caught them, whoever escaped didn't go far.
Mark turned to him: What about Mr. Max, did you find him?
He replied: Yes, he was taken to the hospital with the rest of the patients who were hurt by smoke, Jan went with them as well.
Then the commander asked him: What about Miss Sarah?
He replied: She's fine, her body is still slack from the effects of anesthesia, I hope she will get better.
Commander: Well, our work is done here. I will go to the commissioner and give him the evidence.
The commander left, then Mark turned to the ambulance and found her getting out of it. He hurried towards her and said: What are you doing? Why did you go out? You should rest.
She looked at him sharply and then kicked his leg, staring at her, saying: What are you doing?
She replied, "Don't talk to me, you prankster!" Where's that fast boiling so I can kick him too!
He said, "Your kick doesn't hurt, you're just making yourself tired."
She said: Don't underestimate me, Detective!
Her feet sagged and he held her, saying: Are you okay?
She felt dizzy and her vision began to become blurry, so she grabbed his clothes and then looked at him and lost consciousness, he yelled: Sara! What happened?
He immediately carried her and took her to the ambulance, and they went to the hospital.
He stood by her side and said: Why is her temperature not dropping? Is there a problem, doctor?
He replied: No, but she had a fever because she had been in a cold place. If there are any problems, call me.
Then he went out with his assistants, Mark stayed by her side, putting a wet towel on her head and wiping her hands until her temperature went down.
Friday, 8th May
Sarah opened her eyes, but she fell back to sleep, her body is still weak because of all the drugs she took, and the lack of food, Mark kept taking care of her and her father Max, when the nurse came, he leaves for work.
Commander Lawan held a meeting with his team, then Mark knocked on the door and entered, he smiled when he found Jan sitting with them and went to his place. Jan Said: Why did you look at me and smile, do I look funny?
Zhao said, "Someone seems to be in a good mood today."
He arranged the papers and then answered: Nothing, but I remembered that someone wanted to kick you.
Jan looked at him in astonishment. Then the captain said: Well, last night the firefighters got the fire under control, and fortunately only a small part of the building was burnt. After investigations, we found that they put a candle in each room so that it slowly devours the rooms, they opened the gas tube so that everyone suffocated, and an explosion occurred if someone tried to open the lights or doors and windows.
He added: Of course, all the surveillance cameras inside the building were broken, but the camera on the street corner recorded the nurse's escape and their suspicious movements inside the building.
Zhao completed: As I told you earlier, the building of the Sunrise Care Center has an all-risks insurance policy, and what the director and the nurses did last night was insurance fraud, so they can get all the money.
Jan: And the new owner demolishes the center and gets his new land.
Mark: By sacrificing all the patients and hiding their dirty work.
Commander: It's only a matter of time until we arrest him. We have put his name on the list of people banned from traveling. The suspicious thing is that Steve's name appeared with us during all the previous cases. Is this really a coincidence?
Then he added: I mean, his intervention in the cases was not direct, but he was also there.
Jan: Commander, what if Steve was the mastermind? I mean he's the beneficiary in the end as the case of Sunrise Care Center, if the director (ken) had not made that plan, the issue of the patients would remain an obstacle in the way of demolishing the building, because if he fired them, the voter turnout would drop, and his supporters would lose out. Whereas if everyone died in that fire and everything he demolished disappears, it wouldn't cause problems for either side, because it was an accident.
Mark: The travel office led us to him, Max's suitcase, and now Max himself was lying in the Sunrise Care Center, there's a connection between them, that's for sure.
He added: The travel office belonged to the director of the Capital Hospital Michael, who had previously collaborated with Steve, and the director of the Sunrise Care Center (Ken) had sold the building to Steve.
Zhao: Buying and selling is a legal process, if it doesn't involve illegal acts and pressures, but if your suspicions are right, what will Steve gain from building his project? There must be a strong return to push him to do all these operations, right? Unless he would cost himself all this?
Commander: We'll generally keep a close eye on Steve, but in secret no one should know about this, as Kyle said, there are a lot of hands working undercover between us.
Mark: Commander, what about the coroner, was he fired and punished?
He nodded: Yes, although he denied everything, in the end, he admitted to tampering with the evidence and playing with the autopsy reports. The bodies we got will be sent to another forensic doctor and re-autopsy.
Zhao: I hope we get different and correct results this time.
The Commander finished the meeting, and they went out, Jan stopped Mark and asked: "When we found Max, for the first time, how did she react?"
He said: Like anyone who found his father after years. What is this question?
Jan said, "The strange thing is, he is not Max!"
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