The narrator tells his brother that Cam and Niall met up to talk. However, he couldn’t follow them to hear their conversation. In response, his brother tells him to “try harder next time” (248).

Late on Saturday, Niall is alone in the office. He uses HOLMES, a system that tracks different police cases. He realizes that someone will wonder why he is opening files that don’t belong to him but decides that he can’t be concerned with that now.

He starts with Madison Smith. Her husband, Andrew Smith, from whom she is “estranged,” is the first suspect. However, there are no files on him. He then looks at the files for Alexander Hale and James Lancaster. Their bodies were found on the route back that Luke likely took that night before he turned off his location.

Niall realizes that the files for the two teenagers were not on the system years ago when he checked. Having run a search for any reports from that night, he feels certain he would’ve remembered a homicide.

Cam goes to Libby’s house on Sunday for her birthday party. She invites Charlie, but does so at the last minute, partially hoping he won’t make it. However, when he shows up, she is relieved to have him there. She wonders if she could truly be a “couple” with him—as even finding out the truth about Luke does not bring him back.

Throughout the day, Cam notes that her sister is not drinking and spots an ultrasound, but decides to wait until Libby brings it up.

Once all of the guests are gone, Cam goes upstairs to get Polly, who’s fallen asleep in a guest bedroom. Half asleep, Polly asks Cam if they are going to move because she heard Libby and her husband talking. Cam admits that they might. Polly then asks if her dad will come with them. Cam hesitates, then decides to tell Polly more about Luke. She tells him that he is a good person who did something bad to protect himself. They don’t know where he is, and he stays hidden so he is safe, but she is certain that he loves Polly. Polly is satisfied with the answer, and Cam is grateful that she has “a piece” of “the truth about Luke’s legacy, and who Polly is a part of” (257).

As Cam goes back down the stairs, she hears her husband’s name. She stops to listen, wondering what Libby and her husband are saying to Charlie. However, she then realizes that they are talking about a property in “St. Luke’s.” The words jar something in Cam’s mind, and she pulls out her phone. She realizes that the coordinates were for St. Luke’s—another clue that her husband sent them.

On his way to Whitechapel to see if he can discover anything new, Niall stops at Viv’s house. She lets him in. He tells her that he is revisiting stuff from the siege case, which is making him revisit their breakup. He admits that he was “shit” at being a husband—which disarms Viv; typically, he takes no blame for anything.

Niall apologizes to her and tells her that he is working on prioritizing things in life other than work. She responds by thanking him.

After Niall leaves, he gets a message from work. They linked the anonymous text with the coordinates to an email owned by Luke.

The narrator walks with his brother through London. He tells him that he is “trying” to get more information—even going through Cam’s garbage—but hasn’t managed to find anything new. His brother asks if Cam is in contact with Luke, and the narrator is insistent that she is not. The narrator then says that he is following Cam constantly and she has no idea.

Cam reads Adam’s new novel as she prepares for a publishing event. She is troubled by how dark it is. It is a crime novel about a son who sells drugs for his father. The son is killed, and he narrates the novel from the afterlife. There is also a second murder, as the person who killed the son was murdered shortly thereafter. In the part she is reading, the son explains that he was killed, then a “bystander” tried to help, and inadvertently killed the murderer. Adam writes, “He would’ve got away with it if he’d left them, but he didn’t: he came back. His conscious got him, the way it does with good people” (265). The lines make Cam “shiver” as she thinks of how much it reminds her of Luke.

Cam stops at Libby’s to drop off Polly. Libby admits to her that her latest round of IVF failed as well. She is also pre-menopausal, meaning that she won’t try again. She then apologizes to Cam for being too aggressive with her about moving on from Luke. She admits that she was always jealous of Cam, Luke, and Polly.

The revelation makes Cam consider how lucky she is to have Polly. She realizes that, although she has struggled without Luke, she wouldn’t change anything if it meant losing Polly.

Cam goes with Charlie to a publishing event. She approaches Adam, who admits that he has been “hiding.” He says that he has been working on his book, and Cam assures him that he doesn’t need a third one already. Confused, Adam tells her that he never gave her a second book. The novel she’s reading arrived the same way that Adam’s first did: through the mail in a jiffy bag. It slowly dawns on her that Adam didn’t write the novel she is reading now. Someone “wanted her, and only her, to see it” (274).

Niall checks through everything they have tracking Luke—the burner phone, his email, any CCTV footage of him—but finds that there is nothing new. He decides not to tell anyone about the email, as he does not want them to know that Luke is alive yet. He fears them sending out the full force to find him and using whatever means necessary to stop him.

Jess asks how things are going with Viv. Niall admits that he ignored the signs for a long time that she was unhappy. She asks if he could ever be with her—or anyone—and put her above work, but Niall confesses that he doesn’t think he could.

Jess then asks about work. Niall tells her about meeting with Cam. He is still confused about how he did not see the homicide involving the two teenagers seven years ago. When Jess asks if the entry could have not been there, it dawns on Niall that she is likely right. He considers that someone could have removed the homicide and possibly even the identities of the two people Luke killed. He realizes that there is one obvious person who ties it all together: George Louis.

As Cam stands on the rooftop, she ignores everyone around her as she considers the book. One teen, from a drug-dealing family, is killed by another, from a crime family. A good Samaritan tries to help but inadvertently kills the other boy. She then thinks of Luke—crying in the kitchen, attending the funeral, being hunted by criminals. She realizes that Luke likely wrote the book and left it for her, telling her his side of the story.

Cam leaves with Charlie. She considers telling him that he can’t come inside, so she can finish the book. However, when they get to her house, he spots someone outside. He follows the man into the alley, but he runs away. Cam decides that she should let Charlie stay, just in case.