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| - Ruth Blacksmith and her husband, Jason, teachers at the same school, seemed happily married -- and then Ruth fell for a new teacher at the school, Aidan Harper. Aidan proposes and Ruth accepts, despite his telling her that he once hurt someone , who later died. However, Ruth doesn't know that Jason and Aidan had a physical fight a few weeks earlier -- and when Jason is found murdered, Aidan, who has no alibi, becomes a suspect. (en)
- Ruth has been arrested for Jason's murder. Zailer tells her that police know Ruth was in Jason's house on the day he died, prompting Ruth to admit that they had sex -- but she claims that he was alive when she left. Later, when releasing Ruth on bail, Zailer tells her that she has been to see Aidan and has told him about Ruth and Jason, and that Aidan has told police that the woman Ruth saw him with is his stepsister, Mary Trelease. As the investigation continues, Ruth and Aidan question whether they really know each other and wonder what other secrets await discovery. (en)
- Sally finds herself locked in a house with the man who told her he was Mark Bretherick - but he later breaks the revelation that Mark is out to kill her. Meanwhile, the real Mark is shown a picture of Sally, and he informs Zailer and Waterhouse that this was the woman who claimed to be Esther Taylor. (en)
- Zailer and Waterhouse investigate when housewife Geraldine Brethrick and her young daughter are found dead. The early view is that Geraldine killed them both, an opinion endorsed by criminologists Harbord and Hey - but her husband Mark, away on business at the time, claims she was perfectly happy and would never have taken her own life. (en)
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