Cold open: a sick-day text in the police van
Bascombe and Frank kill time before a dawn raid, trading apple-and-cigarette banter and a teenager's early-morning plea to skip school.
DI Luke Bascombe & DS Misha Frank
The detectives who disagree about what the case is even about. 12 scenes together, in story order.
12 moments · 19 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
Frank asks Bascombe if he is worried about the dad
Over a craving for a cigarette, Frank recalls an old case where the father was the real danger; Bascombe does not see it here and they run through forensics.
- 03
Interview begins: no comment, school reports and Instagram
Bascombe opens with last night and gets no comment, moves to Jamie's grades and behaviour, then confronts him with his comments under models' pictures.
- 04
Katie Leonard: Jamie asks if she is the one who died
Shown a photo of a classmate, Jamie slips and asks whether she is the dead girl before he has been told. Bascombe notes how clever the question is.
- 05
Seven times: the timeline of Katie's death
Bascombe lays out when Katie left home, where her body was found and how many times she was stabbed, while Jamie insists he was never her friend.
- 06
Jade tears into the detectives: Katie was her best friend
Pulled off lunch, Katie's best friend refuses to play along, mocks Bascombe's card, insists Katie never went near Jamie, and storms out calling them useless.
- 07
The detectives address Jamie's class, 8G
Bascombe tries to ask a rowdy classroom for help finding the murder weapon while the kids heckle, and the form tutor Mr. Malik strolls in late.
- 08
Frank on the smell of schools; Bascombe on the missing knife
Walking the corridors, Frank sums up what every school smells like, then Bascombe admits that without the knife or a motive the case has a hole.
- 09
A holding pen, Mrs. Benton, and not being the right fit as a dad
On the stairs Frank calls the school a holding pen, Bascombe credits one art teacher with getting him through, then confesses he may not be the dad Adam needs.
- 10
Frank: everyone will remember Jamie, no one will remember Katie
Frank says the perpetrator always gets the front line and the case has followed Jamie's brain, not the girl; Bascombe insists their job is to understand why.
- 11
Ryan runs: the chase out of school and across the road
The moment the detectives come back for him, Ryan leaps up and sprints out of class; Bascombe and Frank chase him through the streets until he is cornered.
- 12
It was my knife: Ryan confesses and is arrested
Pinned on the pavement, Ryan admits the knife was his and he thought Jamie would only scare Katie. Bascombe arrests him and tells Frank to charge Jamie.