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| - The police interview the journalists following Heather's death. When Paddy tries to persuade them that Brian's murder has the same hallmarks as that of little Thomas Dempsie, whose mother she interviewed using Heather's name, the police are not interested. Paddy speaks to alcoholic veteran hack Pete Walker, who is sure Dempsie never murdered his son. Then, with young reporter Terry, she finds evidence to suggest that mobile grocery van driver Henry Naismith, a witness in the recent case and Dempsie's cellmate, is the culprit; a fact seemingly borne out when she speaks to Calum. Further investigations lead to a dangerous encounter before she gets her wish to become a fully-fledged reporter. (en)
- McVie survives and, with Paddy, establishes that Thillingly was most likely murdered. They visit McDade to ask about his connection to the dead lawyers. He tells them that Mhairi had evidence to expose government dirty tricks in accusing the NUM of fraud, though Maloney presents Devlin with supposed fraud by the union. He realizes that she is colluding with the government to discredit the NUM and boost newspaper sales. Soon afterwards he is beaten up but this incites him to rally the staff to defy Maloney. Paddy and McVie rescue Karen – to whom Mhairi passed on her information – from her abductors, Lafferty and Neilson, the man Paddy saw at Mhairi’s house. They take her to the newspaper office where she reveals the government conspiracy. The News prints a front page exposing the government and police collusion and Maloney is forced to back off. However, Paddy discovers that she is pregnant by married policeman Dan Burns, with whom she had a single encounter in the back of a car. (en)
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