How It All Goes Down
- Rob phones Missing Persons and comes up with a possible ID for the dead girl in the woods: Katharine "Katy" Devlin.
- Cassie and Rob set up a temporary office in the shed of the archeological site and start interrogating.
- First, they talk to Damien, the teen who found the body in the woods.
- Rob hates him for being "adorable [and] helpless" (3.63), a quality he only likes in women, so he lets Cassie lead the interrogation.
- Damien says he found her on the rock, and "shook her" (3.69) to see if she was still alive. She wasn't.
- Cassie asks if Damien ever saw a stranger on the site, and he says yes—a man in a dark blue tracksuit.
- Next, they interview Melanie Jackson.
- Mel says the girl was a local who used to hang around the site a lot.
- She says she's pretty positive the body wasn't there yesterday; a dead girl on a sacrificial stone is the kind of thing you notice in the woods.
- After lunch, Rob and Cassie go to talk to the Devlin family, and as they're talking to Mr. Devlin, Katy walks in.
- Oh wait—it's her twin sister, Jessica, who seems to have some sort of developmental disability. Margaret, their mother, breaks down sobbing when told that Katy was found dead.
- Another girl comes in, Rosalind, Katy's older sister.
- With the whole family present, Rob and Cassie tell them everything they know about Katy's death.
- According to her family, Katy was a good girl who liked to dance.
- When asked what his relationship with his daughter was like, Jonathan, the father, gets angry that they're accusing him of hurting her.
- They assure him they're not accusing him of a thing.
- He says he received three threatening phone calls, because he's part of the Move of the Motorway campaign, to, well, move the motorway away from the dig site.
- Rob and Cassie search her room for clues before leaving. Cassie's only comment: "There is something deeply, deeply f***ed up in that house" (3.196). Her words, not ours.
- They return to the site, where reporters have gathered. They're asking questions about satanic cults and Druids, but Rob and Cassie give no comment.
- Sophie calls them over to look at one more thing: a makeshift campsite in the woods, including the remains of a campfire and a giant red blotch…
- But it's not blood. It's red wine. Spill the wine and… kill that girl?
- There's also a home-rolled cigarette and a long, fair hair—Rob remembers that Mark smokes rollies.
- They decide to talk to him tomorrow. Until then, it's time to dance…