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Directed by: Simon Curtis
Synopsis
"Day Seventy-Nine" Foster interviews Matt, who's been charged with assault for fighting with Francis, the owner of the dog shelter. The police released Francis after determining that his confession to Leanne's murder was false, but then he approached Matt and the kids in public to tell them their dog "looked sad." Matt lost his temper, landing himself in jail and putting Francis in the hospital.
Tops, hoping to boost the case's flagging public profile, calls Josh and offers exclusive rights to some photos of the children. Josh, not interested, tells her that Matt lacks the "everyman" quality to be a hero. Tops asks, "And that can't be a black guy?" Josh replies, "He'll cut it just fine if it turns out he killed her."
Kyle, meanwhile, appears for a bail hearing, where his lawyer tries to convince the judge to release him under strict conditions. When the judge refuses, Kyle begs as he leaves the courtroom, "But they've got nothing on me! You can't put me back in there; it's not safe ..." As the guards load him back into a truck packed with prisoners who scream at him, Kyle bolts, managing to escape into the streets. As he runs through town, listening for sirens, a car hits him as he crosses the street. The driver flees the scene, and after a few moments, Kyle limps off as well.
In light of Kyle's escape, Josh decides to pick the story back up and visits Vic to enlist the old man's help in getting Hazel's reaction quote. But Hazel, Vic tells the journalist, won't talk to him. Still, Vic tries to get her attention in the hall. She ignores him at first, but when he collapses onto the floor, she scrambles to help him, shooing Josh away. When Gary and Matt find out that Kyle has escaped, they decide to take things into their own hands, not to harm Kyle—though Matt admits he'd like to—but to find out the truth of what happened.
John, who overdosed on pills shortly after seeing Leanne's decayed body, stays at a psychiatric hospital, where Tanya goes to visit him. Overcome by grief and tearing up constantly, John says he doesn't want her to come to such a place—she's too young to see this. Barbara has yet to visit him.
When the police find a torched van that could have belonged to the Macedonian flower seller, Barclay goes to investigate and finds a pack of cigarettes inside that matches the product Kyle and the Macedonian had been smuggling. Later, talking over the case with Foster, he hypothesizes that Kyle and the flower seller had both been in the van when Leanne stopped to buy flowers. Maybe one of them pushed her down—accounting for the gravel in her hair—panicked when she was knocked out and loaded her into the van. He suggests that she may have started the altercation by yelling at them for selling Vic cigarettes. A good theory, says Foster, who's marking the last day of work before she retires. Too bad there's no evidence for it. Just in case, she calls the forensic lab to follow up on the fibers found beneath Leanne's fingernails. The lab technician promises to look into the status of the sample.
Barbara receives a call about Vic's injury, and with no one else to turn to, contacts Sarah to watch the kids. Sarah, who has just lost her job, comes over and has a glass of wine with Barbara. "You have to go on for the sake of the kids," Barbara tells her. You can't just give up." Sarah, who hasn't spoken to Matt since the police found Leanne's body, promises Barbara she'll stay all night if necessary, though she confesses she's afraid to run into Matt. When Barbara gets to the hospital, Hazel is waiting with Vic, who's been placed in the hallway due to lack of space. As Hazel leaves, Vic tells her, "If I don't get through this, I just want you to know that you've been like a daughter to me." Barbara, visibly uncomfortable with the revelation, calls for a nurse to get Vic out of the hallway. Later, in his hospital room, Vic tells her that she should go look after her husband. "I sometimes wonder if you've ever loved anyone in your whole life," he says. At this, Barbara breaks down, admitting to Vic that she was jealous of the love he had for Leanne, knowing he's never felt that way about his own daughter.
At the police station, Barclay's supervisor visits and orders him to return more members of his investigative team to regular rotation—and she's received a specific request for Jim. Barclay delivers the news, telling Jim, "Soon I'll be the last man standing." The office empties as everyone heads over to Foster's retirement party, but Barclay stays to pore over the case. He arrives at the party just in time to hear Foster's drunken speech, which starts off alright but takes an uncharacteristic—and embarrassing—sentimental turn. "You're like family, but better ... What am I going to do without you lot," she asks, "Get a cat?" When Jim steps in to rescue her before she "makes a tit of herself," Foster hits on the young detective, who balks and then rejoins Tops and Simone. Barclay collects his inebriated colleague and takes her back to his house.
As the night drags on, Matt and Gary wait outside Hazel's home, guessing that Kyle will show up to see his mother. Hazel—hoping for the same thing—leaves a sandwich out for her son, but when she wakes up in the morning, it's untouched. Kyle does pay a brief visit to Rosie, however, beckoning her down to the yard. "I didn't tell anyone," she promises. "Am I a good girl?" Kyle assures her that she is, and he apologizes to her. Their conversation ends when Ethan bounds down the stairs looking for his sister. It only takes Sarah a moment to realize what's happened and call the police.
Foster wakes up on Barclay's couch to the sound of her cell phone. The forensic lab has finished the fiber analysis and found a match: the carpet in Vic's trailer. Foster rushes over with Barclay to see the place, and all he can do is lament that no one ever properly examined the place. But why did Rosie never say that she was held with Leanne? Later, he talks to the girl, and she admits that she promised Kyle she wouldn't mention her mother, who had disappeared from the trailer while Rosie was sleeping.
Matt and Gary lurch into the gym in the morning on no sleep, but when they step into the locker room, there's a surprise waiting for them: Kyle has crawled in through the window and, suffering some kind of internal injury, collapsed on the floor. Gary immediately starts kicking him, but Matt pulls his friend away. "I want to know," Matt tells the fugitive. Kyle swears he didn't touch Rosie, and he tries to explain what happened. The story matches Barclay's theory almost perfectly: When Leanne stopped for flowers, she started going on about Kyle's selling cigarettes to her grandfather. The Macedonian pushed her to the ground, where she hit her head and passed out. Panicking, the pair loaded her into the van and drove to Vic's trailer to buy time. Kyle went back to pick up the kids so they'd be safe, but for Leanne, "it was too late." When Matt tells him Leanne was still alive when she went into the water, Kyle, horrified, looks at Gary and says, "You never told me that." Utterly shocked, Matt tackles his friend just as the police arrive. He throttles Gary, demanding he say whether he knew Leanne was still alive. When the police pull Matt off, he turns to Kyle, but the young man is dead. Later, Jim interviews Gary at the police station, and it turns out that Matt's best friend had been behind the Leanne's murder, and the cigarette smuggling, all along.
In the aftermath of Gary's arrest, Barbara finally goes to visit John at the psychiatric hospital. She tells him it's lonely at home without him, and he recognizes the apology for what it is. "You get so there's nothing you can hang on to," he tells her. Later, Matt takes his kids—all three of them—to visit Leanne's grave, along with Sarah. "I know how much I owe you," he tells her, and she responds, "No you don't. I owe you for showing me how much is possible." Matt walks off with his arms around his family.
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