UK Air Date: 23rd May 2008
Writer: Margaret Wilson
Director: David Gould
The race is on to save Jack and Martha. Morag’s theory is revealed.
Extended Summary
Ross is more confused than amazed when Morag tells him that Kylie Deeks killed Sam. Aren’t they the same person? That’s exactly what Morag means. It was all an elaborate suicide designed to incriminate Jack and Martha, keeping them apart for good. Already struggling to hold it together, when Sam visited Rory, a fact now confirmed by the boy himself, she was told to leave by her son, the one person who had always been there, the person she’d gone through so much to protect, and it was the final straw. Sam snapped completely.
On the run from the police, her husband lost, and now her son as well, she had nothing left to live for. But she wasn’t going down without a fight, she wasn’t just going to let Martha fall back into Jack’s arms the minute she was gone. Sam carefully staged all the events of that night to lay down the trail Ross has been following, then rowed out into the Bay in a small dingy, pulled out the bung and injected herself with an overdose of heroin, enough to die before she hit the water, knowing when the police discovered there was no water in her lungs they’d assume murder disguised as suicide.
It’s a hell of a story, but Ross is unconvinced. There are still the bruises on Sam’s arms to explain, from when he believes Jack held her down, and where’s the boat? But he agrees to give Morag twenty-four hours to come up with an answer and find the sunken boat before he charges Jack and Martha.
With twenty-four hours to prove Martha’s innocence, Roman is ready to do whatever it takes. He’s called some friends from his days in the SAS, divers from East Timor, and first thing tomorrow they’ll be out on the bay, looking for the sunken boat. Martha’s struggling to stay confident, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack, but Roman won’t give up. Jack’s in no higher spirits; already convinced it’s hopeless, he’s just waiting for jail. Until he realises how Sam could have gotten her bruises, she’d already hired someone to beat her up once, why wouldn’t she have hired someone to hold her down and give her those bruises?
They decide that while Roman trawls the Bay, he’ll lead a search of every seedy pub they can find, and just hope they find the guy they’re looking for. But that night, as Jack and Martha agree over the phone that they just need to keep repeating their story, we’re left to wonder, are they guilty after all?