Locklyer's boss, Christine Consedine, is not happy when he tells her that there is reasonable doubt about Hedy Lambert's guilt. She is unwilling to let him reopen the case, but she eventually tells him that he needs to bring him some new evidence. His only hope is the knife, and when it is analysed, he is told that there is some plastic remains, similar to cling film, as if the knife had been wrapped up in cling film. That is the piece he needs to be allowed to continue.
Lockyer and his partner, Broad, keep investigating. Lockyer thinks that if Hedy is not guilty, then the murderer must be one of the people inside the house. After reading the postmortem, Broad points out that the dead man, Mickie Brown, had bruises on his body. Then Hedy calls Lockyer when she remembers that one day when she was doing the washing up, she saw the butler, Paul Rifkin, come out of the barn very angry and his clothes in disarray. So Lockyer guesses that the bruises Mike had may have been caused from a fight with Paul.
Lockyer tries to discover why Harry Ferris left and stayed away for so many years. It seems that the reason is the suicide of her mother, which happened in the same barn as the murder. Yet, nobody wants to talk about the past.
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