Sinclair was a consumer of Holly Pinder (Sophie Willan), the Cambridge police HQ’s pc whizz, who had a facet line in leaking police info to the press. He paid her for tales that he printed on his weblog, most of which have been nonsense, however certainly one of which was actual and should have been extraordinarily incriminating for any individual within the police service. The tried cover-up of that one true story, no matter it was, received Sinclair and the thief killed, despatched DI Neville into hiding along with his household, which explains that James disappeared. What was the story? That’s for James, Lucy and Henry (Dylan Hughes) to seek out out.
James’ Storage Unit and Cracking the Code
James’ orange wallpaper-covered pocket book contained his coded notes on the Sinclair investigation, however was the code was uncrackable with out the supply of the cipher James had used to encode it, even for puzzle-setter Ludwig. Fearing that his telephone calls have been being monitored, James left one other coded message on John’s historic cell phone. He instructed him that he hadn’t disappeared as a result of case however had merely adopted of their father’s footsteps and walked out on his household. “I’m the bowerbird,” he repeated. John realised that was a touch in the direction of the illustrated ebook about birds that the twins had owned as youngsters, and which James had handed on to his son Henry. The entry for the bowerbird was the cipher James had used to encode the pocket book. As soon as deciphered, it led James and co. to a storage unit.
There, they found tons of of bins of information, which had been taken from Sinclair’s (see above) home after his homicide. The proof had gone lacking whereas being transported – as a part of the cover-up, John initially assumed, nevertheless it turned out that James had intercepted them and was hiding them at his secret storage unit. Someplace in Sinclair’s bins was the incriminating story that this complete police cover-up is attempting to maintain quiet. Now, they simply need to sift by way of all of it and discover out what it’s.
The place is James?
Close by. From a brief distance away, he watched John, Lucy and Henry uncover the storage unit, however didn’t method them, presumably for their very own security. James and DI Neville worry for his or her lives attributable to their investigation into the Sinclair cover-up, and so have gone to floor. What doesn’t make sense is that whoever is the menace to James, didn’t goal John the entire time that he was pretending to be James – except they knew all alongside that it was an impersonation?
Who killed Holly Pinder?
It wasn’t Lucy. Holly was killed by the person pretending to be her boyfriend, who was truly her co-conspirator within the blackmail and extortion enterprise they have been operating. In an excessive coincidence, he found that Holly had been ripping him off on the actual time that she’d invited Lucy over to blackmail her about the entire John-pretending-to-be-James enterprise. He slit Holly’s throat, there was a switcheroo with the virtually similar kitchen knife that (additionally in an excessive coincidence) Lucy had introduced together with her to Holly’s, and Lucy was seemingly left red-handed.
Holly was the one taking surveillance pictures of John at dwelling at night time, and had labored out that he was actually James’ similar twin. She examined her concept by falsely telling John that she and James had kissed on the work Christmas social gathering, simply to see his response. When he went together with it, she knew that he couldn’t be James as a result of that they had by no means kissed. Holly was planning so as to add Lucy and James to her record of blackmail victims, which is why she invited Lucy to her flat on the night time she was killed.
