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I realize it’s a common name so I assume it’s just a coincidence? Hope you don’t mind me asking.

M

Date: Sun 21/05/2023, 16.58

From:Laila Furness

To:Mitch Clarke

Subject:Re: Just checking

Ha – well spotted! And yes, it’s just a coincidence. Khans are almost as common as Smiths.

By the way, I think you’re handling this whole thing really well – you’re the only one of us outside the family who’s been touched by this personally and I know it can’t be easy having to rake it all up again after such a long time. Let’s just hope we can give both you and the Howards some closure.

See you next week,

L

Voicemail left by Laila Furness for her mother, 21st May 2023, 5.23 p.m.

Hi Mum, hope you’re OK. I forgot you were in Karachi this week. Can you give me a call when you get back?

Love you. Bye

Episode four

Broadcast

October 12

The Times,13 October 2023

TELEVISION

Home is where the hurt is

The real insight of Infamous is what it tells us about family relationships

ROSS LESLIE

Infamous: Who Killed Luke Ryder?

Showrunner

Keep it in the Family

Netflix

Tolstoy was wrong. If this series ofInfamousproves anything, it’s that all unhappy families fall apart in similar ways, however wealthy or advantaged they may appear to be.

You only had to look at images of the haunted faces of Caroline Howard Ryder’s children in the years following their stepfather’s murder to know that money just serves to paper over the cracks. Behind the anonymous walls of that huge Campden Hill house, children were acting out to the point of petty criminality, and being sent for professional therapy. Some of these revelations were distinctly uncomfortable to watch, and at the same time the whole thing was, of course, utterly compelling. The unfolding psychological drama continues to be underpinned by a succession of new discoveries about the dead man at the heart of the case, a man – as we discovered last night – whose true identity still eludes us.

To continue the domestic dysfunction theme, the latest offering from Netflix isKeep it in the Family, adapted from a 2022 novel by John Marrs. Newly-weds Finn and Mia have taken the perhaps unwise decision to buy an almost derelict house

Infamous/LukeRyderJoin

OK so, first up the obvious question: has anyone found out anything about this Eric Fulton guy?

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