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That evening the boys got to the end of the CCTV checks and turned up something significant.
FM: Which was?
JC: They traced one of the cars that crossed the bridge about an hour before Ben’s abduction. It was
registered to Lucas Grantham, Ben’s teaching assistant.
FM: I understood that he had an alibi.
JC: He did, but a piece of evidence like that is enough to make you take a much closer look at an
alibi.
FM: And Nicola Forbes?
JC: Still a person of interest, but you don’t argue with CCTV. And we had the schoolbook evidence
too.
FM: I felt as if you didn’t put much store in the schoolbook.
JC: Not on its own. I thought we needed to be careful to understand that they only widened an already
considerable pool of people who could have known about the dog walks. But in the context of the
CCTV discovery they were much more significant.
It gives him satisfaction to say that. He is born for this job, I think. But I have another question.
FM: DI Clemo, did you rest at all that night?
JC: I did go home, yes. I knew I couldn’t pull another all-nighter.
FM: And did you get some sleep?
This question makes him edgy.
FM: Were you able to sleep?
He doesn’t answer.
FM: Were you thinking of Emma?
JC: I might have been.
FM: You suffered a very traumatic loss that day. You lost a relationship with somebody you had
extremely strong feelings for.
JC: It was nothing compared to what Benedict Finch might have been going through.
FM: That doesn’t mean it wasn’t significant. Would you say this time might have been the start of the
insomnia that plagues you now?
JC: I don’t want to talk about it.
FM: I believe we have to talk about this, or we can’t make progress.
JC: It’s not relevant.
FM: I believe it is. Think about it. I’d like to discuss it at our next session.