With midnight approaching I was finally lead through his back garden ("If you see a skunk out here... run") and into his studio, a converted pool house overlooking the shimmering smog of LA.
Tracking those couriers, the investigators were finally led to Benjamín Arellano Félix.
Our audience is finally led out of the park and into an eccentrically tatty hotel.
The place, packed with lights, cables, cameras, recording equipment, and camera crew, is transformed from a room into a motion-picture set, and into the middle of this set, when all is ready, the interviewees, one by one, are finally led, a lapel microphone hung around each man's neck like a noose, to be questioned under the stare of the lenses and hot lights.
When you are finally led to your table, past the glassed-in dumpling kitchen, you will be provided with ice water and a patient explanation of the process.
This was best emphasised by Slade's Case, a struggle between the old and new forms of suing for breach of contract; although an equilibrium between the common law courts was finally reached, it eventually led to their dissolution with the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873, and merger into a single High Court of Justice.
As the US secretary of state, John Kerry, continues to encourage the release of Palestinian prisoners to further the Middle East peace process, how admirable it would be if someone who risked his life and sanity for the very purpose of peace was finally allowed to lead a normal life in the country of his choosing.
When she was finally offered the lead, Mara was unfazed by the rape, nudity, piercings and cigarettes.
In a marathon Brussels summit lasting more than 16 hours - the longest in EU history - an agreement was finally reached that would lead to a third bailout for Greece and keep the country in the eurozone.
In 1972, the immigration museum, in the statue's base, was finally opened in a ceremony led by President Richard Nixon.
