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Grace takes Blake into her confidence, and she tells him about the operation she has been asked to lead. Blake is still investigating Merrick’s death, and using this as an excuse, he and Grace go and visit the owners of the hall. They want to find more information about Chesham. Minnie Thomas welcomes them, and Grace asks to see photographs from those summer camps Chesham has run for years; there is a photograph on a corkboard, and the woman gives them a box in which her late mother-in-law kept photographs. What surprises Grace is that Minnie doesn’t question why they want the photographs, which makes her think that maybe Minnie knows something about Chesham.
Grace is summoned by Scotland Yard again, and Grace tells the Deputy Assistant Commissioner Marx that she hasn’t found anything that Keith could have done at the time. She also tells her about the new victim, Karen Wheeler, who Grace talked to, and she claims that there must be more girls. Yet, Marx tells her that the operation is over now that she has completed her work, and if there are any more leads to more girls, it is something that she should leave to them.
Grace feels deflated to be railroaded out of the operation when there is so much to find out. Yet, she believes she could still investigate discreetly since, after all she has to continue looking into Merrick’s death. The only lead they have is an ex army officer that was camping in the area, and when the man comes forward, he says that he packed his things and went because he was scared with all the police around. He also claims that he saw a car near the gates of the estate, and he remembers spotting a sticker of a car club.
Grace then suggest they look into Helen Fry’s movement, and they find that she did rent a car, but when she is arrested, she claims that she rented the car just to go to the Heath, just as she told them. Grace thinks that she is lying, and I have the theory that when Merrick called him, he didn’t tell her about his improper thoughts, but about something that he must have seen Chesham do and he wanted her advice. So then Helen drove to the camp, and then what? Did she kill him to shut him up? Has Helen been covering up for Chesham because she is in love with him? We know that Helen also suffered from an eating disorder, and that is how he met Chesham. Was she abused, and now she is held hostage, helping Chesham to go after these weak, innocent girls? Is her loyalty to him so strong that she could kill? Does Chesham know that Helen kill Merrick, and that is why he wants her to accept the job in Newcastle?
Ivo is also investigating, and he knows that the person who told Villiers about Mayfly Operation is a former MP, Adrian Starling, who retired from the public life when his daughter committed suicide. Maybe the man’s daughter was one of Chesham’s victims, but now that the operation has been cancelled, what does his involvement mean?
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