Once Mark left, Gabriel got rid of the bin filled with vomit and he dug out the small card that Rosa once gave him. He called the number and on the third ring the call was answered.
"Agent Summers, do you know where Claire is?" Gabriel asked through the phone.
"I think she's in Guildford for a few days." Rosa answered on the call. Her voice seemed impatient and slightly shaken up.
"Thank you." Gabriel hesitated. "Can you pass on my thanks to Agent Davey?"
"I can try."
"Also…" Gabriel threw up again. To his surprise, Rosa remained on the call. "I think I found out what was causing my memory issues."
"Oh shit." Rosa mumbled.
"I don't know everything that happened. I need someone to tell me what is going on with my father. I need to know the whole truth."
"I'll come over." Rosa decided.
Rosa arrived in Gabriel's villa the next morning.
Gabriel led her to his office, kindly offering her a beverage and one of the million types of cakes. He seemed nervous which Rosa expected.
Once sat down, Gabriel passed the bottle of pills across the table along with the information that Mark send him. Rosa's heart skipped a beat as she recognised the label.
"I was prescribed these by my family doctor who is close to my father. I was told that I had an accident. I have tried to conceal issues with my memory everywhere else. My father insisted that my memory issues will be a sign of weakness and he pushed to hide it. Not even once I have questioned it. Now, I have stopped taking it. My memory is fragmented." Gabriel started as he sat back down in his chair. "I cannot find a single timeline among the memories that are coming back but… my father was too involved in this for me to not think that he is guilty. Not only that, when Elise, or rather Claire, spoke to me one of the first times she asked me why I chose my father over her. I am convinced that my father tried to manipulate me. I need to know how exactly it would benefit him and how is Claire involved in it."
Rosa stared at Gabriel wide-eyed. Even without his full memory recovered, he was able to comprehend more than most would. Under the facade of calmness, he was terrified. But her eyes still darted to the pills that she knew Alex was taking too.
"Let's start where Claire's connection to your father begun. Her mother, Leanne Thompson, worked at Moore Pharmaceuticals as a researcher. She started to collect evidence of malpractice along with your mother and a few of her colleagues. She attempted to bring it to light. Your father couldn't let that happen. They were threatened and he put their life at risk. As a repercussion for their actions, he orchestrated attacks on one of the employee's child and Claire who was Leanne's child. The former, Jenny, died as a result of the attack. Claire was assaulted. One of the men who assaulted her was her then boyfriend. Following that, Leanne withdrew her claims and signed an NDA. Claire was institutionalised following the incident, without her consent, under different names, with you father having a role in her being considered mentally unstable. They have tried to make her question her sanity and make her believe that her assaults didn't happen." Rosa explained calmly. "Claire recovered, finished the university at top of her class, and went to work at Diamond Corporate. By that point her mother was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, likely linked to the mishandling of benzene at Moore Pharmaceuticals. Claire and her family didn't give up though. Claire took it onto herself to finish what her mother has started. She gathered evidence against your father. Tonnes of evidence. She was honestly better than a lot of our agents are. Years into working at Diamond Corporate she met you. She married you in April, and then months later she filed a lawsuit against your father. Her biggest success was that it became a criminal case. It was very public. Your father put a bounty on her head, and then yours, just to try to have her back down. She didn't withdraw the lawsuit but once she recognised the risks, she took a very different path. National Crime Agency offered their help in getting her under the Witness Protection Scheme. She faked her death and took on the identity of Elise Cooper, moving out of the country. She chose to make everyone believe that she was dead, including yourself, to make sure that she wasn't followed. This action meant that Michael Moore was in the spotlight, watched by everyone, suspected of her death. You then stepped in and you continued the lawsuit against your father. You were given all the evidence by Claire. After months long battle you won." Rosa looked down. "That's when I've stepped into the case. Michael Moore evaded arrest and vanished. National Crime Agency's mission was compromised revealing Claire's scheme and that she was still alive. From what I understand, from what Claire shared, she went to face Michael Moore. She found out about his possible hiding spot and went there herself. You called me that night and told me that you were following her. I have tried to reach you both but I didn't get there in time. You were both caught and tortured. Claire was shot and you were taken away. What I found was just pools of blood and no sign of either of you. Now, I have some idea as to what happened as I understand better the relationship your father has with Group X. Claire was shot and left to die. Group X found her. It is beyond my comprehension as to an exact intend but they have placed her in the closed facility in Switzerland. The doctor truly thought that Claire was Elise Cooper and diagnosed her with psychotic depression based on the history of Elise Cooper she was given. Dr Wagner was not at any point involved with Group X. As Claire was made to believe that she was Elise Cooper and her life as Claire Thompson never existed, you were taken by your father. He couldn't lose such an asset if he could find a way to control you…" Rosa looked back up at Gabriel. "I found you once there was an announcement of the Diamond Corporate and Moore Pharmaceutical merger. I didn't think of approaching you. Like Claire, I suspected that you were manipulated into choosing your father's side. I watched from afar as many of Claire's friends and family were forced into hiding and relocation as your father was cleared from all his charges. I watched as your company changed the entire board of directors to fit in with your father's wants and needs. I didn't understand at first. When Claire came back, broken in her own way, I started to understand. She did everything to reach you. I gathered that you lost your memory once she told me that you acted as if you didn't recognise her."
Gabriel was silent as he tried to comprehend Rosa's words.
"What made you think that I have forgotten?"
"I have said it before. Someone close to me went through the same thing."
"Agent Alex Davey, isn't it?"
"Yes." Rosa nodded.
"What do you need to get my father to face the justice?"
"Honestly? Proximity. I need a way to be near him so I can arrest him. I can get him charged for one crime he hasn't been charged for yet." Rosa smiled weakly. "And the only crime that he didn't actually commit."
"Yes?"
"We are yet to charge him for orchestrating the murder of Claire Thompson."