The girls arrange a night out, and the boys stay in playing games.
Martin returns to Portwenn, but without Louisa. She has gone to stay with her mother in Spain to take some time out to think, and Martin is left wondering if she will ever come back. Aunt Ruth has found him a therapist.
Lynley is taken away from his wife and home by a murder in Oxford; blackmail and false charities are uncovered beneath a club's respectable surface.
Peter's clients believe their daughter was unfairly turned down by the University of Cambridge; computer program determines when Simon's body should have turned up.
The Doctor is trapped, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight, as the knocking on the wall begins.