[He folds his hands together, thinking quietly to himself. There was an inkling, just a feeling in the back of his mind that the source of all the darkness in London, was lurking just out in the open.] . . .Prosecutor Van Zieks told me about that, how he begged Chief Vortex to let him prosecute that trial instead and he allowed it. It wasn't long after that trial, that people were mysteriously killed after receiving a not guilty verdict, and people started calling Van Zieks the Grim Reaper, eventhough the Grim Reaper turned out to be a group of people.

[The detail about him becoming the Chief Magistrate afterwards is news to him though.] You think...he could be the mastermind behind everything? It wouldn't be hard for someone in Vortex's position to be able to make those kinds of orders.