As the police close in on him, John Carmody, aka Phil, goes on the run. When Danielle Boyce fails to show up for their meeting, Leo's suspicions of DI Barry Neill grow, despite his friend Janet Mander's view that Neill is on the up and up. The police soon find the flat she had rented with ample blood evidence to confirm that Danielle was the victim. They also find Alex Webb's DNA in the flat and Leo is convinced that he was living there. He thinks here was a third man involved, the mysterious non-existent policeman named Phil. DI Neill's legwork puts him in touch with someone who paints a much clearer picture of just who Carmody is and what he's up to. Harry Cunningham meanwhile comes to the realization that his mother must have been having an affair with their deceased family friend long before his father died. They have it out but not before he learns things about his father that he would have preferred not to know.
—garykmcd