The Woman in Suite 11

In the morning, Carrie admits that Marcus restricted her eating. She takes a bath while Lo gets breakfast. As Lo eats, her mother, Pam, calls to say that she fell in the grocery store and that the manager is calling an ambulance to take her to the hospital. Lo offers to meet her there, but Pam insists that it’s nothing and that Lo delay coming to see her. Lo goes back to her suite and tells Carrie the news. When Lo says she’s interested in staying another night at the hotel, Carrie seems put out but says she’ll stay another night as well. Lo goes for a walk.

In the village of West Tyning, Lo gets lunch. She texts her mother repeatedly, but gets no response. When Lo returns to the hotel, Marcus is arriving on a helicopter with Pieter and Adeline. Lo runs back to her room, hoping that Marcus didn’t see her.

Lo tells Carrie about Marcus’s arrival. Carrie says Marcus must have tracked Lo’s movements, and Lo is free to go to her mother; perhaps Marcus will follow and leave Carrie alone. She’s staying in the hotel. Carrie asks Lo not to check out if she leaves. Lo calls her mother. She’s waiting on test results about her ankle, which may be fractured, and hangs up to talk to the doctor before Lo can ask where she is. Since Lo doesn’t know which hospital her mother is at, she decides to stay with Carrie.

At dinner, Pieter greets Lo. He’s scouting talent for his subdivision, Journeys. Lo claims that her mother is in a nearby hospital. Pieter asks if Lo is traveling alone and invites her to join him and Marcus for dinner. Lo says she’s traveling alone, thanks Pieter for the invitation to his hotel, and says she’s finished with dinner.

Back in her suite, Lo tells Carrie what happened and apologizes for being unable to smuggle up food for her while Pieter was watching. Carrie says Pieter is nice, but unfortunately worships his evil father. This shocks Lo, and Carrie clarifies that Pieter’s respect is professional; he doesn’t like his father personally. Carrie hasn’t told Pieter about Marcus’s abuse. Lo suggests that Carrie turn herself in, but Carrie refuses.

Lo struggles to sleep that night, so she doesn’t dream. She texts Judah, telling him what she knows about her mother, and then texts her mother, asking where she is. When she gets up, Carrie suggests that they split up, and Lo agrees. Lo plans to check out after breakfast. After eating, she heads back to her suite. On the way, she sees Pieter and hears him talking to someone in a suite. After he closes the door, he tells Lo he was talking to Marcus about breakfast; Marcus is ordering room service.

Back in her suite, Lo walks in on Carrie taking a bath. While Carrie finishes up, Lo packs. She hears a woman calling for help and goes into the hallway. Other people have heard the commotion as well, but Lo is the one who follows the voice. It leads her to Marcus’s suite. A housekeeper is trying to drag Marcus out of the bath and asks Lo to help. She does, and she thinks Marcus is dead, but they can’t get him out. Pieter comes in, helps the housekeeper move Marcus’s body, and tells Lo to call for help. Lo runs out of the room to get her cell phone from her suite.

Police swarm the hotel. Carrie worries that she’ll be the prime suspect, but Lo believes that she was in the bath the whole time. Lo argues that Pieter is probably the prime suspect. However, Marcus supposedly called room service after Pieter left his suite and went to breakfast. Lo hopes Marcus died of a heart attack, but thinks Adeline and Heinrich could be suspects. The police come to question Lo. Carrie hides in the bathroom.

Detective Sergeant Dickers and DC Wright invite Lo to make her statement in a room downstairs. At Wright’s request, Lo gives them the clothes she was wearing at the crime scene; she has already changed out of them. Wright asks if Lo wore jewelry at the scene, and Lo says she didn’t. Downstairs, Lo worries that she’ll have a panic attack, but gives the police her timeline: getting breakfast, seeing Pieter, and going back to her room. She learns that the key cards track entries and exits to suites. Lo continues to recount how she heard the calls for help, went into Marcus’s unlocked suite, and helped the housekeeper.

Dickers asks why she didn’t use the phone in Marcus’s room. Lo didn’t see the cordless phone in its cradle, so she figured getting her cell was faster. The police confirm that Marcus didn’t die of a heart attack, which disappoints Lo. Dickers asks how Lo knows Marcus, and she explains the press trip for the Swiss hotel’s opening. Then, she relays how Pieter claimed to be doing “industrial espionage” at the Old Manor hotel. Lo claims to be at the hotel researching another piece while her mother is in a nearby hospital. The police tell her to stay at the hotel and dismiss her.

The chapter ends with an email from Pam to Judah. She says Lo has been arrested and to call as soon as possible. However, Pam might go into surgery soon. The email reply from Judah says he’s been trying to call, and asks her to return his calls when she gets out of surgery. He also says he can have his mother look after the kids and come to the UK to help.