At home Andy and Laura find a ziplock bag containing some small containers in the shape of a fish, and Laura knows what they are. It is a drug used in clubs to abuse women. Andy is worried that if there is a search, this will harm Connor, so Laura says that she will conceal the bag.
Andy sees Cathy, her partner and the police on television, begging for information about Emily, and then he decides to call her. Cathy is kind and asks for a favour. She wants Andy as a doctor to find out if Emily may have been prescribed some type of drugs. Andy tells her that he can't do that for ethical reasons, and Cathy agrees, but she asks him to bring her some medicines. Andy agrees, and when he drops by her home, he tells her that he had a look at Emily's record, and there is no trace of prescribed drugs.
When Andy is leaving, a reporter called Chris Dineen approaches him, wanting to talk to him, but Andy says that he has a meeing and leaves. Then after the meeting, DS Prya Shah tells him that they are his home as they have a search order and they are taking Connor for questioning. Andy calls the lawyer he had talked to, and they go to the police station.
In the room DS Prya Shah pushes Connor to talk, and finally Connor says that Emily's disappearance was supposed to last a couple of days, and she should have turned up. He tells them that Emily told the four of them that she wanted to give her mother a scare because she was tired of being snubbed in favour of her twin sisters. She claimed that her mother only pressed her to do well at school, and she wanted to make her see that there were more important things. Her plan was to walk in the forest where she had left her bike, and cycle to a property her mother had that was empty because of works that were taking place. DS Prya Shah does not seem to believe him. Connor says that when Emily left and he was on his way home, he had a gut feeling that something was wrong. So he returned to the forest, and he was struck from behind, and when he came to, Emily's phone, which he was supposed to post, and his burner phone were gone. The police don't believe him because they have found a fake identity card he uses with some traces of Emily's blood. They have also found some fabric belonging to Emily as well as an acrylic nail. And they also found Emily's phone in the Boyds' rubbish bin. Connor says that he doesn't know how that came to be in his bin, and Andy claims that anybody could have put it there to frame Connor. That night Connor has to stay in custody, but the next day thanks to the intervention of the lawyer, he is released.
Connor is a broken boy. At home he tells his parents everything, and when Laura shows him the ziplock bag with the drug, he says that it is not his. He knows that there are rumours that drinks were spiked and girls abused. He thinks one of these girls is Olivia, Emily's best friend. Andy also says that Zac is the only one who was in the room, not only the night he pretended to be Connor, but the next day he returned for something he had left there, so he may have left the drugs there. Connor refuses to believe that his best friend could do something like that.
Andy and Laura learn from a colleague of hers that Karl, Emily's stepfather, had a record of improper behaviour towards girls in some schools he taught, but he was never prosecutor. Andy thinks that the police need to know this, so he creates a fake email address and gives the information to the police using this alter ego.
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