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(making notes on a yellow legal pad)

So as at now, our list of suspects looks like this.

Caroline –the most obvious, given that murders of this nature are invariably the work of an intimate partner.Butshe had a fairly decent alibi, as wellas no apparent motive. None, at least, that has yet been uncovered.

Rupert –likewise has no obvious motive, and also insists he wasn’t in London, though I think we’d be advised to double-check that.

And last but not least our mystery King’s Cross caller, who was never identified, far less found.

But if there really was someone out there who had a big enough grudge to want to kill Ryder, we’re going to have to look damn hard, because the police don’t seem to have found them.

(looks round the table)

I mean, frankly, who else is there?

(silence)

MITCHELL CLARKE

(looking up)

Me.

FADE OUT

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Wrap-up email from Nick Vincent, 6th April 2023, 10.11a.m.

Date:Thu 6/04/2023, 10.11

From:Nick Vincent

To:Guy Howard, Hugo Fraser, Alan Canning, Mitch Clarke, Laila Furness, Bill Serafini, JJ Norton

CC:Tarek Osman, Fabio Barry, Dry Riser production team

Subject: Ep 1 wrap-up and next steps

Just to say thanks again for managing to keep the big reveal about Mitch under your hats until the last frame. Nothing like a cliff-hanger to keep ’em watching. But from now on, if something comes up during filming you didn’t already know about, just come right out and say so. All adds to the drama!

We film again on the 17th, and obviously the main focus this time will be on Mitch, and how he found himself in the frame. In the meantime we’ve set up an i/v for Alan and Bill with Peter Lascelles, the original lead investigator. He’s long retired but by all accounts still sharp. He was in two minds about doing it when we last spoke, but looks like he’s agreed now. He lives in Devon now, so it will probably involve a jaunt down south.

As ever, any questions, just give me a shout.

Nick

Importance:High

Date:Fri 7/04/2023, 14.05

From:Tarek Osman

To:Fabio Barry, [email protected]

Subject: Visuals for Ep 2

As discussed, I’ve attached some stills Mitch has given us from around 2003. As predicted the Met are refusing to release footage/transcript of any of his police interviews, so we’re going with plan B and filming reconstructions.

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