As Strike (Tom Burke) once again is questioned, he does the police job for them, picking out all the obvious points as to why that newspaper pic was doctored, including the girl wearing the vest and he casually looked up at that moment and why would she go into a coffee shop to buy water? As he begins to strike a light(!) he'll risk the fine and DS Ekwensi (Ann Akin) telling him she's got asthma. Of course they can't tell him anything about the three men he gave them info on. Robin (Holliday Grainger) is being followed again still and he tells her to be careful and stay in public places. She tried to find an address for Brockbank (Andrew Brooke) and he suggested a meeting in Shoreditch but nothing more. She is determined to get him and put him away.
She has dinner with her mother, Linda (Suzanne Burden) who asks if she still wants to get married and gives her £500 for a deposit on a flat or for a pair of wedding shoes. Of course she gives it to Strike for rent otherwise they won't be running a business and he replies at the rate they're going he won't have any business, as he doesn't have any clients. Strike looks at the photo in the paper where Laing is shown and works out it's the Strata (aka 'razor or electric razor) building in Elephant & Castle, from there, Robin finds out which flats he might be living in. Which is followed up by Strike. Yeah know that area very well, well know all of London obviously!! ha. He goes door to door, until he finds Laing coming out of a flat. He appears to be "more crippled than I am" Strike tells Robin. He tells Laing he's following up on the jewellery stolen from the old lady and he says he doesn't have it. Adding that he's not a very good investigator. Knew that was a put on cos he was really overdoing the dragging movements.
Strike also follows up on the strip club in search of Brockbank but he doesn't find him. Though he does score a date with a Swedish stripper, which he falls asleep and manages to miss. Matt (Kerr Logan) apologizes for his indiscretion when he was only 21 and in a bad space. He made a mistake and leaves the ring on the counter if she does want to marry him, otherwise he'll leave. As Strike thinks of his mother, Leda (Kierston Wareing) and she kisses him telling him she loves him and he'll have a love of his own too one day. Robin snuggles up to Matt. Next day Strike checks out the back door of the flat and tells her it needs a padlock which he didn't exactly put on there. he also notices the ring and doesn't mention about it or the on again wedding. Yes they had chemistry but obviously being in business together, they can't pursue that and not so since she wants to be with Matt, even though she had her doubts.
Robin is attacked in Catford and after buying Whittaker's (Matt King) girlfriend breakfast. She tells her nothing and Whittaker shows up. She tells him she thought she looked beat up and was only helping. She tells Strike Whittaker had a gig with his band so it wasn't him. The knife attacker manages to cut Robin's arm, but her self defence classes paid off. Matt isn't happy with her working for Strike; who gets angry and fires her. Matt blocks his number from her phone.
So of course the security lights are smashed and the intruder leaves a severed finger in the kettle for Matt to find. As Robin is in Yorkshire at her parents to make wedding dress arrangements and fittings. She calls around asking nurseries in the area if they have Zahara's correct address and finds an address for her. She turns up there with Shankar (Ben Crompton) and tries to convince his girlfriend about the paedophile that Brockbank is. But she refuses to listen until her daughter tells her he did those things to her. As he returns, Shankar breaks down the door and gives chase but loses him.
Strike also manages to talk with Kelsey's sister whose boyfriend doesn't want her to speak with him. Yeah the dodgy boyfriend see! Especially since he did the same thing here that he did when he was with the other woman, thus showing that he is really Laing, as he loses the limp when he leaves the house later on. Also Strike takes photos of the pics she has and searches Kelsey's room when feigning use of the loo. As he sees a fire certificate for a Ray Williams, who was the old woman's son. After some checking he finds Ray Williams retired from the fire service. So he heads back to Laing's flat again where he attacks him. All on the basis that when he was in Wales he saw sea holly in the photo which doesn't flower until June, that Strike got from his uncle Ted as he left some at his mother's grave. Thus the photo gave Laing away.
Brockbank is found and picked up and Strike tells his daughter, Brittany (Megan Parkinson) he'll be facing charges and when he's released he'll be put on the sexual offenders register for life. She thanks him and mostly Robin for solving this even though it wasn't his case. As he heads to Robin's wedding in Yorkshire, driven by Shankar. He says he was invited and manages to make an entrance showing her and everyone that he's arrived!
This ep just seemed to flow routinely didn't it, with some bits and pieces thrown in, but it all seemed to fit into place to finally nail it down to one of the three suspects. Just something about this part 2 which seemed too clinical. Especially since as said the suspect pool wasn't that large and all of them had some sort of grudge against Strike. There wasn't much intrigue as the other episodes had in series one. Although Kelsey did have clippings on her wall and one of them was of Lula Landry, the model from series 1 episode 1 Cuckoo's Calling. Which was the connection to Strike and her knowing who he was, but not vice versa. As Strike later tells DI Eric Wardle (Killian Scott) Kelsey had a crush on him.
Funny part, Matt telling Strike he's a sociopath, er, no mate that's Sherlock! ha
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