Tosh stepped forward. “We have the rental car logs. We have your phone pinging the same tower as Connor’s burner.”
“Your son is dead, Mr. Cairns. And you waited two days to tell us. Why?” shetland s07e02 msv
Back at the station, Tosh had a lead. “The blocked number Connor called? I traced it to a burner phone bought in Aberdeen. But the day before Connor died, that phone pinged a tower in Lerwick. And guess whose rental car was logged near that tower at the same time?” Tosh stepped forward
John cracked. Not dramatically, but like a hull taking on water. “He came to me two weeks ago. Said he was in trouble. Said he’d been working for a man—a man from the mainland. He wouldn’t tell me the name. Just that they’d promised him a way out. A new life in Norway for him and his mother.” Cairns
He moved toward the door. Perez didn’t step aside. Instead, he leaned in, voice low. “You made one mistake, Mr. Slater. You threatened Helen Vik. Connor’s mother. He wasn’t trying to go to the police. He was trying to warn her. That’s why he called the blocked number—not to talk to you, but to record you. He was wearing a wire the night he died.”
“His mother. Helen.”
Prologue: The Hollow