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.
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Bascombe wins Ryan over with the bus-shelter black-eye story
In the nurse's room Bascombe tells Ryan how he once gave himself a black eye to look like a cowboy, then steers to popularity and what matters at thirteen.
Why the game exists: the rich were bored
Il-nam explains that too much money and none at all are equally joyless, and that his clients built the game for fun; nobody was forced to play.