"Blackwood was trying to stop it. Think his plan was letting Peter think he'd got him under his thumb and then... not being that." Which is hardly a fitting description of the machinations Martin went through in the long year and change he spent working under Lukas, but Daisy's not a wordsmith. "He left you the information that sent you after them. Them being him, Lukas and Magnus since the bastard had escaped prison."

Because of course he had. The police didn't stop being corrupt after Daisy left, after all. All he had to do was pay his way.

"Problem was. Montauk and Herbert turned back up and started shooting random Institute staff. And someone let the weird Stranger freak from the tunnels loose. So Basira and I had to stay back whilst you ran after them. To keep them from following you."