From the Vault Ep2: The Hand of Anarchy

## Episode

Somewhere in Lincoln City, a police station can be seen - inside officers can be seen typing on computers and operators can be seen taking emergency calls, in one of the investigation rooms a police officer called Crystal Jackson can be seen mulling over a missing person case with her colleague DI Jack Sutton, the case is of one Miles Windsor, a university student who studied Computer science was kicked out of university due to apparent misconduct - angered by this he used his technology skills to create the alter-ego Anarchy deeming anyone who wronged him as immoral however after a run in with the Torchwood Institute who tried to help him he jumped into a river and was never seen again, many at the establishment think Miles is dead however no body was ever found during the investigations, all this happened 18 months ago though so Jack is confused as to why Crystal wants to open a cold case file on it.

Jack returns after a while and says "Morning" to her, Crystal looks shocked "How long have I been in here?" to which Jack responds "At least 24 hours, you shouldn't be doing this to yourself it's not exactly healthy." Crystal snaps "I have to find out what happened to him, he's been missing for too long and someone must know something" and storms off.

A little while later she returns with a paper and pen. Jack sighs and facepalms as she re-enters the room "Well begin writing" Jack says sarcastically almost laughing at Crystal's obsession with this case as she begins writing on the paper, then hands it to him.

He reads it and states: "So your saying Mr. Windsor faked his own death?" Crystal, using various hand gestures, explains to Jack her theory saying "He went to extreme lengths to make it seem that way, which leads me to believe he must have been scared of something or knew someone who was scared of something."

"Why would he fake his own death for someone else? the first part where you said HE was scared of something himself now THAT seems logical" Jack says to himself looking a bit confused, "I'm going to go and see this An..." Crystal starts to say before being cut off by Jack "Do you really think it's a good idea to go and see this alone?" he questions - "What, are you scared I'll get hurt"? she snorts. Jack shrugs before saying "We both know this city isn't safe with Torchwood running round battling monsters and all kinds of strange things, not to mention we have people like Miles Windsor supposedly still out there, the man is dangerous." Crystal shakes her head and mutters "Scared of a single man at your age, how long have you been in this business?" before walking off. Jack sighs again and goes to go and get some coffee.

Elsewhere: another police officer can be seen attending a crime scene, it seems to be your average robbery with the victim being a old man, the robbers were two relatively young men who look to be living on the streets, the police officer talks to the old man who says "I was just minding my own business, then these two rough looking chaps came along wanting my money, I told them I have no money but they didn't seem to take no for an answer and kept harassing me so I just pushed one of them and he pushed me back, I think I hit my head."

The police officer nods "Do you need medical attention?" the old man snaps "I've fallen and I can't get up, I'm an old man" The officer sighs and goes to take out his radio as he does, two male screams can be heard as the two robbers emerge from their hiding place down an alley, they run over to the police officer and beg to be arrested, the officer looks annoyed and tells the old man to stay down before complying with the robbers and locking them in the police riot van.

The officer than returns to the old man, he tells him that he is going to check out the alley where the two robbers just ran out from and that he will be right back, while he is gone, a old woman approaches the old man and crouches near him, she looks to be in a bad state, she looks him dead in the eyes and from her pocket pulls out 2 coins and a packet of food probably assuming he's homeless before walking off which disgusts the old man.

The officer returns from the alley and asks the old man "Is it safe to move you?" - "I assume so" he says as the officer attempts to help him up as ambulance sirens can be heard approaching so the old man can get medically checked up on, after a few minutes, the officer returns to his car however he is shocked to find a note saying "I was in the alley, thank me later for the assist" the bottom of the note has an Anarchy symbol next to it, the officer freaks out and returns to the police headquarters as fast as possible.

Back at the HQ, Crystal continues her work on the Miles Windsor cold case "I can't find a match for this symbol but it looks like a gang called the The Bloody Smiles were active in this city at the time, I should take a look at their old cases" she discovers that whilst The Bloody Smiles have no relation to the Windsor case, they are a relatively unknown gang throughout Lincoln City, she looks around the investigation room for Jack but Jack has gone on patrol as he is not in his office or the lounge, as she tries to look for him, she spots a notice board with a list of names on it, with arrows indicating the officer's shifts - "Oh yeah, he's not here right now" she says like she just remembered something important as she heads to the shift list to see who is on duty at the moment to double check.

Elsewhere: Jack can be seen patrolling the streets of Lincoln in an unmarked police car, he receives a call from an operator about strange behavior in a local scrap yard, he decides to investigate saying to himself that "Anything would be better than hearing Crystal's constant theorizing" upon arriving he finds something disturbing, a man has been stabbed seemingly to death and a smile has been carved into his chest, "Oh jesus christ" he says in horror as he looks at the body, he quickly goes to radio in the incident before looking around to see who might have done it.

He doesn't see anyone but here's what sounds like someone banging an empty oil barrel with a pipe nearby, he thinks to himself that "The participants in the murder are likely long gone but it never hurts to be safe" he walks over to the source of the banging and sees someone banging the barrel like they wanted someone to find the body, Jack calls out to the figure but the figure just runs off. Jack gives pursuit in order to catch them in the act of murder but he is far outclassed and has no hope of catching whoever it was.

Despite this Jack continues to try and follow the figure, this leads him to an abandoned warehouse around the back of the scrap yard, he speaks into his bodycam stating where he is and what the building looks like, he then searches for the figure with extreme caution, hoping they haven't escaped out the back or in some other way managed to elude him.

Jack walks up a set of stairs but immediately hides behind a wall as the figure seems to be hosting some kind of cryptic ceremony involving the sacrifice of a young boy. In the next room he finds another very dead boy, similar murder to the first but more brutal and sadistic in nature, the figure holds up the boy and declares him a failure, before the figure can do anything though, a drone breaks through the window and starts firing what seem to be rubber bullets at the figure and the others at the ceremony.

The figure and their associates jump for cover as the drone flies around sniping everyone. The assailant or assailants are more accurate with their shots than anyone at the ceremony as the figure's associates keep getting hit by the rubber bullets.

Jack takes the time to snap some photos of the scene before legging it, he is however noticed by the figure who orders someone to chase down Jack as he flees from the warehouse.

Back at the scrap yard, another body has supposedly been found as the victim's family stand around looking for their loved one, Jack orders them to run as the figure's associates chase him, the family however are more concerned with finding their love one leaving them open for the figure's associates who grabs one of the family members and slits her throat, he then carves a smile into her chest as the other family members are also assassinated, Jack can do nothing but watch as the chase resumes, Jack manages to lose the figure's associate who runs off and calls in the incident and returns to the police headquarters.

Back at the Police HQ, Crystal's mental state continues to diminish following her constant investigating Miles Windsor, another officer, Officer Faysal, is pulling his hair out trying to calm her down. "What the fuck's going on?" he asks as Jack comes into the room.

"Who?" Officer Faysal asks.

"The guy who jumped into a river and was never found." Jack responds.

Officer Faysal responds with a "What!?"

"We think the two murders are related to Miles." Jack responds again.

Faysal is a little confused by this and asks why she was investigating him in the first place.

Crystal responds in a little bit of a crazy way "Because no body was ever found, Don't you see? he's still out there" Jack and Faysal try to get her to calm down, but she's in full blown panic mode.

"What do you mean out there? In the river? floating around down there?"- "No silly" Crystal says with a crazy grin "Out in the city somewhere" Faysal pulls out his walkie talkie and shouts "Alright we need to get her to a hospital now, she's getting mental!"

Before they can do that though, Jack shows them the photos he took of the figure and his associates as well as the drone attacking the figure"We need to get a line on this right now" he says, looking terrified.

Crystal grins at the photo and points "That drone, it's one of his" she says like her mental state is diminishing, "We need to find out what this is all about, and fast" Faysal starts "The names on the wall people!" he shouts.

"Literally..." Crystal says crazily as she points to a massive Anarchy sign that has seemingly appeared from nowhere on the wall, Officer Faysal runs over to it and starts punching in some numbers praying to get through to someone but failing "Someone's hacked the phone lines" he says out loud.

Crystal then turns around to notice a door has been opened like someone is in the Police HQ when they shouldn't be.

Officer Faysal runs over to the open door however is struck down by the figure and his associates, the door then being secured shut again by the figure's associates.

"What The Fuck!?" Crystal says as the sound of knocking is heard, Crystal looks outside and notices one that is capturing video of the Police HQ.

Jack runs over to the injured Officer Faysal and is also knocked down and killed by the figures associates. "We need to get out of here!" Crystal shouts however she realizes both of her colleagues are dead and that does it for her mental state as she breaks down in psychotic laughter.

"You can't take us anywhere" she laughs.

"We are everywhere" The figure finally speaks.

The door timer goes off as the lock turns and the door opens.

Expecting it to be more of his associates, the figure looks over to the door however freaks out when Miles Windsor (dressed as his alter-ego Anarchy) is standing in the doorway, Miles is flanked by two drones who start to shoot more rubber bullets at the figure and his associates.

The figure falls back but quickly grabs a table and throws it across the room at Miles, Miles' drones quickly deal with the table, the drones then take out the lights in the room by flying under the suspended ceiling and shutting off the lights. The figure screams as he is left in the dark as everyone else runs for cover.

Crystal remains where she is just laughing saying "You're real" in the direction of Miles over and over again, Miles however ignores her and walks over to the figure, he turns to the figure and says "Who are you?"

The figure says "As if I'm going to tell you...Miles Windsor" at which point he laughs. Miles' simply says "I guess we're doing this the hard way" before slamming his boot onto the figures' fingers causing him to scream once again.

"Who are you?" Miles asks again "I've been tracking you, I know what you did, I know what you do...You sick fucks, your entire group is immoral and should face Anarchy" - "I'm giving you a chance to tell me who you are before I break your fucking neck" Miles says getting angry.

The figure screams once again giving his name as Ernesto, this takes Miles by surprise "Ernesto, really? Your name is Ernesto?" he says almost laughing.

The figure though simply laughs "Of course it isn't...ASSOCIATES, DEAL WITH HIM" he shouts as the figures' associates come running in.

Miles though is having none of it and proceeds to turn on the sprinkler system which causes his drones to malfunction causing the associates running at Miles to get electrocuted to death.

He then proceeds to dismantle them with his bare hands, breaking their bones and dislocating their limbs, finally he says "TELL ME WHO YOU ARE NOW"

The figure introduces himself as the Leader of the Bloody Smiles group, they live for violence and have been organizing vicious raids against the city for years now, they have no individual names in the gang and instead go by rank, their ugly red and bloody smiles is what they leave behind after raiding a place or killing a person, they know of Miles Windsor because of his actions 18 months ago.

Miles kneels down "Now to show you I'm not a monster, you can leave and nothing else will happen however if I come across you or any of your gang in this city or anywhere else, I WILL KILL all of you...is that clear?"

The leader is in tears clearly intimidated by the masked man kneeling down next to him "Please...you have my word I will leave you alone, you didn't do anything to us..."

Miles continues to intimidate "but you did things to the city I love, you did things to the people of this city and to me...that's personal" The leader begins to cry again but nods and says he and his group will leave and swears to never return.

Miles lets the man go and says "Remember what I said"

Before leaving the now internally destroyed Police HQ, he finally notices the now fully crazy Crystal Jackson watching them from a corner of the room, she approaches him

"What the fuck are you doing investigating this group? They don't concern you" Miles snaps at her, Crystal grins psychotically "I was looking for you...Mr. Miles" she says in a monotone voice, Miles looks at her "You're coming with me" he orders, not realizing that she's lost the plot completely.

"YES" she gleefully agrees, grabbing his hand to lead him out.

The two proceed to walk out the wrecked police station, Miles looks behind seeing the death and destruction caused by the Bloody Smiles group.

Miles and Crystal arrive back at Miles' apartment in the city, he takes off his Anarchy outfit and gets changed "Now what am I going to do with you?" he ponders to the crazy Crystal - "You know what I wish?" she asks "I wish the streets were filled with people celebrating and laughing, it'd really liven up this dull city" she grins.

"I wish for something fun to happen, something interesting, something people will want to read about and discuss" she continues.

Miles thinks again "Yep, just keep pretending to not notice."

Crystal grins at Miles' naivety "I wish that you would become friends with people, so that I might learn more about the world and people."

"I work alone" Miles responds coldly.

"I wish you luck with that" she laughs before walking off into her room.

"Hey, just because I brought you here doesn't mean you live here now" Miles calls after her.

Miles then thinks to himself: "What the hell is going on with this city? I feel like something is different, like the veil has been lifted."

Crystal can be seen lying on her bed looking at pictures of her father on her phone, periodically giggling at them.

Miles walks out of the room and activates his main computer station he organizes that Torchwood come and pick up Crystal thinking they will know what to do with her.

Miles looks out of the window as life goes on as normal below his apartment, "Why did you disappear?" he hears Crystal asking him. "I was a coward, I believed the entire world was against me, but now I've been gone for a while it made me think that this city and the entire world is alot darker and alot more dangerous then what I had thought...but that makes it so much better." He replies with a smile.

Crystal comes out of her room and says to him "I know you have a job to do, but I'm worried about you. I'm going to miss you around here..."

"Have you heard yourself?" Miles says "I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, this city needs me whether the people of it agree or not."

## Characters

* Miles Windsor
* Crystal Jackson
* Jack Sutton