'I know who you was. OK? Answer's still fuck off.''Richard, I'm sorry it's all worked out like this for you, but--''Aye, well that's just great. Makes everythin' all better that does. You're sorry. Jamie's mum and dad get kilt and he goes to live with his Nan. Goes to university. Writes a fuckin' book. What do I get? A father who drinks himself to death; foster parents who're bastards; and a criminal record.' He stabbed himself in the chest with a thumb. 'Where's my fuckin' publishin' deal?' 'Richard, I--' 'And his books are shite.' Logan watched the pair of them staring at each other. 'Look,' he said,'we just want to ask you a couple of questions about what happened twenty years ago. OK? Nothing else.' Richard Davidson scowled. 'I didn't do nothin' else. Whatever they told you, it's a fuckin' lie.' 'Fine. Don't care. We just want to know what happened in 1987.' 'Nothin' else?' 'Nothing else.' Davidson shifted in his seat, then stared at the camera bolted high in the corner of the room. 'We're walkin' Jamie home, in the dark, me and Mum. And we get to the jungle - just this wee bit of park, couple of trees and some shitey bushes, but Jamie and me played Japs and British there the whole time.' He looked down at his hands, flexing them open and closed, open and closed, like a heartbeat, the knuckles bruised between the DIY prison tattoos. 'Jamie and me run off into the jungle ... Mum tries to call us back, only we don't listen. Jamie's got some crappy fancy-dress party to go to for his dad's work and Jamie don't want to go,' cos his dad's a dick.' He sighed. 'After a while we get bored bein' soldiers, but we can't find Mum anywhere. We shout, look all over the place ...' Davidson bit his bottom lip. 'Can't find her. Nowhere ... She's gone.' He rubbed a hand across his eyes. Deep breath. 'And then he turns up: Wiseman, in his fuckin' butcher's costume. And he takes our hands and ... and we walk back to Jamie's house ... Never saw my mum again.' Logan let the silence go on for nearly a minute. 'What happened at the house?' 'Stupid, isn't it? All this time and I still miss her ...' Davidson shook his head and wiped his eyes again. 'Jamie's dickhead father was on the phone, shouting at my dad, then he shouted at us and we ran upstairs and ... and Jamie put on this stupid Viking costume and we sat there. We could hear more shouting and we didn't want to go downstairs in case we got into even more trouble - Jamie's dad was one of those wankers didn't worry about clobbering other people's kids. So we just sit there for ages, waiting for him to come get us. Only he doesn't ...' Davidson shuddered. 'Eventually we give in and go downstairs. The kitchen was clarted in blood ... and Wiseman ... Wiseman made us sit in the lounge while he cooked tea ...' He looked up at them, his eyes rimmed with red. 'Jamie's book says Crispy Pancakes, but it was liver. His dad couldn't stand the stuff, wouldn't have liver in the house. So where do you think Wiseman got it from?' There was another long pause. Then Richard Davidson stood and wrapped his arms around himself. 'I'd like to go back to my cell now.'
'So,' said Logan, when a prison officer had taken Davidson away,'what do you want to do now?' Faulds checked his watch. 'Nearly ten. While we're here, how about we take a crack at the butcher - McFarlane?' 'Ah ...' 'What?' 'Maybe not the best of ideas, sir. DI Insch can be a bit--' The Chief Constable waved him down. 'Nonsense. We're just going to have a little chat with the man, where's the harm in that?' 'But--'
