His flat was filled with newspaper clippings about Molly’s murder. It’s not Carl Sturgis, but rather the man who found Molly Andrews’ body. When she is attacked, a large group of women with flashlights emerges and chases the assailant, who runs into the street and is hit by a car. Maggie Byrne and the Lady Matilda women decide to take matters into their own hands no more of them will die. He has also requested that Morse be transferred as soon as possible. Thursday still refuses to see a pattern in the accidents, and takes Morse off the towpath case for continuing to look into them. The woman had recently cashed in on life insurance to buy a house. It happened around midnight-but the lights in the library were off, suggesting someone was there after the fall. A faculty member fell from a ladder in a library, knocking down a heavy bust that smashed her head in. Meanwhile, another accident has occurred-this time at Lady Matilda’s College. At the same time as the fire, a neighborhood boy named George Fontayne went missing. They were all killed in a fire that was blamed on the girl who survived-Jen. She and her two siblings were orphans who lived with their aunt’s family. She comes up with a story that matches the details, although Jen must have changed her name. Morse asks Dorothea to look into the newspaper archives for news about the fire. They lived above a pub, and everyone in her family but her died in a terrible fire. Her cousin would torment her and her siblings. She also tells Morse of a troubling childhood. Jen asks Morse not to tell anyone-she doesn’t want to be institutionalized. Inside, Morse finds crucifixes and a painting of a menacing figure-the object of Jen’s terrifying visions. She wants to be left alone, but is panicky and continually glances at a room. They all involve falls, and Morse has found that several of the people killed had just cashed out their life insurance.įor clues on the towpath killings, Morse goes to Jen Tate, the woman who claimed to have had a vision of Molly Andrews’ murder. Dorothea Frazil has discovered more accidents, farther afield from Oxford. Morse tells Thursday he will apply for a transfer as soon as the case is solved.īright is furious about this new development, because now Carl will be released-and all this on the day that his wife returns from the United States, where she was undergoing experimental treatment that seems to have sent her cancer into remission.Īlthough Thursday has continually dismissed his concerns, Morse is still looking into a spate of seemingly accidental deaths. De Bryn and Strange have to angrily chastise the two men. The back-and-forth grows so intense that Dr. Morse argues with him, insulting his ability as a detective. While examining the crime scene, Thursday tries to distinguish Petra’s murder from the others, thus proving his arrest of Carl correct. Petra’s tutor, Maggie Byrne, shares that Petra had recently submitted a formal complaint against the misogynistic Dai Ferman, a professor at another college, for groping her, but he pleads innocence. Petra Connolly was a student at the all-female Lady Matilda’s College. Thursday and Morse argue bitterly.īut then another young woman is killed on the towpath. Morse still isn’t sure, however: the necklace ripped from Molly’s neck hasn’t been found in Carl’s possessions, and he has some decent alibis. With Carl awaiting trial, Bright tells Thursday he regrets trusting Morse’s instincts that Carl wasn’t the murderer. The second victim, a cook exposing himself to women, was probably killed because he infringed on Carl’s territory. Sturgis knew both Molly and Bridget, and he whistled the same tune when Thursday tailed him as that heard by the towpath. Thursday arrests Carl Sturgis, the boyfriend of the first victim, Molly Andrews-Thursday’s initial suspect. Once again, whistling was heard around the time she was killed, although this time the murderer bit her and tried to suck her blood. The latest victim to be found dead on the riverside towpath is Bridget Mulcahy.
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