Broken Harbour

Scorcher returns home to find Dina ripping pages out of his books, angry at having been locked in the apartment. They talk, and he convinces her to stay with Geri, who is now available, for a few days.

Having decided they need better bait for the killer, Scorcher and Richie arrange to have a floater who looks somewhat like Fiona stay in the Spains’ house. Their hope is that the murderer won’t be able to help watching her. They begin their stakeout in the abandoned house the suspect used as a lair.

While they wait, they talk about the case and their belief systems: Scorcher maintains that most people reap what they’ve sowed, while Richie suggests that’s a privileged viewpoint. Scorcher talks about how badly he wants to catch Pat Spain’s killer, in part because Pat could easily have become the top suspect. Richie has brought the same model of binoculars the suspect had, to check what level of detail he could see. He notices that the alarm panel is visible just to the left of the front door, and the killer could easily have learned the code.

One of the floaters calls to say they’ve just seen a man walking in an abandoned part of the estate.