Detective Chief Inspector Nate Simpson was exhausted. Him and his partner Detective Inspector Clara May had been working on the "Pendragon Case’ – as it was nicknamed – since the group’s first ever reported robbery in November of 1998, a year ago (though they discovered in the meantime that the first robbery actually took place in September with only two of the four). It quickly rose to the top of the Metropolitan Police’s priority cases as more and more robberies were reported all over London. The high-ranked members of the Met had the Prime Minister breathing down their necks, and they wanted the case closed as quickly as possible.