Ruth Gardiner falls to her death from a squat in a high-rise block and Leo - unlike D.I. Neill - realises that she was murdered though Neill seems reluctant to launch a public appeal. Ruth's father tells Leo she left home two years earlier, he assumes to join a cult, but had phoned recently to say she was retuning to him.Reading of the death car salesman Phil tells his girlfriend Danielle that he is an undercover cop working with Ruth - who was staking out a resident in the flats. Danielle meets with Leo, telling him Neill is corrupt and anxious to shut down Phil's operation,which is to expose sex trafficking. Phil - real name Peter Carmody - takes Alex Webb, an apparent suspect,to a caravan where he will be safe. Harry, meanwhile, discovers that a recently deceased family friend had had an affair with his mother.
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Cast of episode
- 77
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- Professor Leo Dalton
- Dr. Nikki Alexander
- Dr. Harry Cunningham
- Ruth Gardiner
- Young Man
- D.I. Barry Neill
- Danielle Boyce
- Alex Webb
- Nick Arnold
- Amanda Fry
- Frank Gardiner
- Mary Bradburn
- Anne Cunningham
- Robert Alanson
- Landlord
- News Reporter
- Janet Mander
- D.I. Neil Gaunt