Ravi brings Sal’s phone to Pip’s house after explaining that the police returned it to Sal’s family months after closing Andie Bell’s investigation. Pip takes Ravi to her room to examine it, excited by the possibility of evidence the police may have overlooked.

Pip starts with the call log. On the night Andie disappeared, Sal missed a call from Max at 7:19 p.m. and a call from Andie at 8:54 p.m. Pip then checks Sal’s outgoing calls and finds that, from Saturday morning until Tuesday morning, Sal called Andie 112 times, with each call going straight to voicemail. Pip and Ravi argue that this makes little sense if Sal had killed Andie and kept Andie’s phone as evidence, especially because the police claimed the calls were an attempt to look innocent.

Pip reads Sal’s last messages with Andie. After Andie vanished, Sal texted asking Andie to come home and to call someone so everyone knew Andie was safe. The last message before Andie disappeared was sent at 9:01 p.m. on Friday, shortly after Sal ignored Andie’s call: Sal wrote that Sal would not talk to Andie until Andie had stopped. Neither Pip nor Ravi knows what Sal wanted Andie to stop doing.

Ravi directs Pip to Sal’s final text to Sal’s father, which the police treated as Sal’s confession. Pip notices that the text contains punctuation and an apostrophe, unlike Sal’s usual rushed, unpunctuated texting style. Ravi confirms that he noticed the same thing before but was dismissed by the police and by family members who feared false hope. Pip concludes that the wording suggests someone else may have written the confession text.

Pip searches the rest of the phone and finds no photos from the night in question, no useful deleted material, and only ordinary reminders. Ravi then shows Pip a note written two days before Andie disappeared: a likely number plate, R009 KKJ. Ravi has not been able to identify it, but Pip records it in her log.

After Pip shares her full production log with Ravi, including uncomfortable theories, the two reassess the investigation. They agree that Sal probably had no alibi after leaving Max’s house, making the alibi route a dead end, but they also identify major inconsistencies in the case: the bloody hands, the undated fingerprints in Andie’s car, and the practical difficulty of hiding Andie’s body. Pip decides the next step is to learn more about Andie’s life and possible motives, beginning with Andie’s friends Emma Hutton and Chloe Burch.