Call Me Princess by Sara Blaedel

Author:Sara Blaedel [Blaedel, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-1584-5
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2011-11-22T23:00:00+00:00

17

“YOU CAN USE THIS ROOM HERE. WE’RE JUST PULLING THE TAPES. From what I understood, you want to see both ends of the platform at Kongens Nytorv, as well as the escalators?”

Lars confirmed this.

The security manager in charge of the surveillance archives had been waiting for them when they arrived. He led them down past the Copenhagen Metro’s security office, where they monitored the surveillance footage from all stations continuously. A little farther down the hall was the archive itself, with its narrow steel shelves full of surveillance tapes from all the subway stations.

“There are monitors and two players in the next room.” He pointed into a room the size of a cigar box. “The footage has also been burned onto DVDs, so you can take what you need to use back to police headquarters if that’d be more comfortable,” he offered.

“No, this is fine. We’ll watch them here,” Louise said. She was impatient to get started and didn’t think it would take them long. They had a time window of about two hours, and there was CCTV coverage from two angles, so they could each concentrate on one section of the station. For the moment, they were interested only in the north side of the platform where the trains heading toward Valise station stopped, since Christina Lerche had lived in Frederiksberg, four stops before that.

“Knock yourselves out,” said a short, fair-haired man who came in and powered up the machines. “This is some scintillating stuff!”

They thanked him and remained standing until he left.

When they’d left headquarters after the morning briefing, they’d driven past Christina’s apartment, and Lars had run upstairs to leaf through the photo album he had remembered seeing on the bookshelf in her bedroom. He was holding three pictures when he came back down to the car. Vacation photos of a happy, very much alive woman. Two close-ups of her face, and one showing her full body. They set the pictures on the table between them and started figuring out how the Metro Security machines worked.

“Do you guys want some coffee?” the archivist called in to them while they were still focused intently on the machines’ buttons.

“Please,” Louise said, turning around to smile at him. “Could you just show us how to put the machine on slow and pause?”

She had quickly inspected the basic functions, but knew that she would need to slow down the tape each time passengers flocked in and out of the subway cars. The pace was fast and the station was quite crowded with people on their way home from work.

“That button on the far right slows the replay down, and if you hold it in, the machine will freeze the frame.”

He set two plastic mugs on the table, and Louise noticed him lingering over the pictures of Christina they’d brought.

Lars noticed it too. He covered them with his elbow and forearm and said “Thanks for the coffee!” with exaggerated politeness.

“No problem,” the archivist said, slowly withdrawing. “Just holler if you need anything.”

Louise and Lars got organized and hit PLAY.

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