Thursday, 25 July

On Eliza’s last day of primary school, Alix attends the end-of-term assembly with her mother. The ordinary milestone feels hollow because Nathan is missing, Walter is dead, Erin is comatose, and Josie has vanished. Later that afternoon, Detective Sabrina Albright calls Alix to say that Roxy Fair has walked into the police station and wants to see her.

At 2.50 p.m., Sabrina Albright and Chris interview Roxy. They explain that Josie is wanted in relation to Walter’s murder and Erin’s attempted murder, that Josie appears to have used Erin’s debit card, and that Erin had earned over forty thousand pounds through the livestreaming platform Glitch. Roxy clarifies that Erin is a successful gamer, not helpless in the way Josie portrayed her, and says Walter joined Erin’s streams as “Pops,” which explains why Walter spent nights in Erin’s room.

Roxy rejects Josie’s claims about Walter abusing Josie, Erin, or Brooke Ripley. Roxy describes Josie as jealous, possessive, and resentful of Walter’s bond with their daughters. When asked where Josie might go, Roxy remembers family holidays in Ambleside in the Lake District, a place Josie loved despite Roxy’s unhappy memories of it.

Roxy meets Alix in a coffee shop and demands to know what Josie said about Walter. After hearing Alix’s account, Roxy agrees to record her own testimony for the podcast. Alix realizes that the project has transformed into a true crime account of events in her own life.

In the studio, Roxy listens to part of Josie’s recording about Brooke and then tells her own version. Brooke was not Walter’s lover; Brooke was Roxy’s secret girlfriend. Roxy says Josie resented Brooke because Roxy loved her, and that Roxy left home after a school fight and suspension, hoping Brooke would eventually join her. Brooke instead disappeared, and Roxy insists Josie’s story about Walter and Brooke is false.

That night, Roxy stays in Alix’s spare room. When Alix mentions the numbered key Josie hid under the mattress, Roxy recalls that Walter’s father had a garage behind the Fair house, accessible through a mews near a bathroom window. A later documentary segment features Ambleside holidaymakers Clare and Georgie Small recalling a solitary woman with a dog at a lakeside lodge, her sudden disappearance while her car remained, and police arriving before their holiday ended.