![]() ![]() If Geordie had only been looking up at Will at that moment, maybe he’d have seen that Will was speaking about himself. Will theorized that Alfie was reminded of this woman and all the pain he caused anytime he got close to someone, which is why he chose to avoid people. Miss Scott’s research had shown that Alfie served three years for robbery and that he’d been questioned over a girl’s death but was released. In Alfie’s wallet, they found a faded newspaper clipping announcing the suicide of a young woman named Heather and a separate photo of her. He hadn’t been hitting on her, he’d been warning her about the evils of men, especially Alfie. Stay too long, she said, and people inevitably try to convert you (looking at you, Will!), or they become “Tarzan the Protector” like Duncan. Judith was annoyed that she was stuck at the halfway house until the murder was solved. He was terrified and wanted her to leave, then Keith intervened. He pulled back, and she just thought he was shy, so she tried again - and that’s when he pulled out the knife. He said he didn’t want any trouble, but she thought she could make it worth his while and leaned in to kiss him. She had some explaining to do: Some posh guys had refused to pay her, so she’d asked Alfie if he could rough them up a bit. There was no time to digest how sad that statement is. “If I killed every man who had a knife to my throat, I’d be a bloody mass murderer,” she said. She said she owed Alfie, and seemed genuinely surprised to hear he was dead. She claimed she hadn’t stolen Alfie’s wallet unlike everything else that Larry pulled from her bag, including Daniel’s camera. Will found Judith in Alfie’s room with money tucked in her bosom. He’s trying to downplay the severity of the situation so the residents don’t feel bullied out of their home. Leonard didn’t want to call Geordie, though. The neighbors’ fear and frustration is growing. Then a brick was thrown through a window. Martha was cleaning the front door, which had been egged. Will went back to the house with Daniel and Leonard. He said two days ago he walked in on Alfie holding a knife on Judith and stopped him from killing her. He’s not a killer, just a man who gets violent if the booze doesn’t make oblivion come soon enough. So yes, he had joined a gang to survive, but it wasn’t who he was now. Geordie and Will interrogated Keith, who told them that when he returned from the war, he was spat on. Leonard lied and said he spent the night at the vicarage with Will, talking about prayer group, while Daniel said he was home alone reading The Heart in Exile, a trailblazing 1953 novel billed as the first gay detective story. He had Larry question Leonard and Daniel. That earned him a trip to the station along with Leonard and Daniel.Įlliott is gunning to close the halfway house for good, but Miss Scott suggested that the boss’ current foul mood was more about the date who ghosted him last night after she failed to return from the restroom. More questioning followed: Farmer Duncan wouldn’t reveal why he’d served time, Mikey had been some kind of booze runner, and Keith was a veteran who admitted he thought Alfie (and Mussolini) had a lot to answer for. Geordie’s fight with Will over whether a chance at redemption should come with some rules was cut short when they discovered a bottle of chloroform in Alfie’s room. Geordie questioned Leonard’s business model: no files kept on past crimes (for a clean slate, Leonard said), no curfew, and no alcohol ban. Keith couldn’t confirm that because he’d blacked out. Lady of the night Judith was MIA, but Mikey claimed he’d been out with a friend last night and Duncan said he’d played cards with poor sport Keith, who’d locked Duncan in his bedroom after losing. But Geordie wanted to question the residents. Daniel’s camera was missing, so perhaps Alfie had interrupted a stranger in the act. Leonard wanted to believe that it was a robbery gone bad. Alfie was struck on the back of the head with a spade that had been wiped clean (the other shovels were caked in mud). Everyone assumed it was suicide, and Will felt he’d failed Alfie, until Geordie did some actual sleuthing: The small amount of blood meant Alfie was already dead when his wrists were slit. Alfie wasn’t as lucky they found him seated in a shed, blood dripping from his wrists. ![]() The next morning, they arrived back at the halfway house to find Keith on the floor - hungover but alive. Leonard agreed to spend that night at Daniel’s home. Grantchester Recap: A Topless Protest, Art Theft and Murder, Oh My! ![]()
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