As this episode of Grace begins, we see Abby Morton (Katie Clarkson-Hill) practicing with a can of pepper spray. Her door has several locks, a knife is next to her bed, and there is a baseball bat as well. Before she leaves, she puts on a blonde wig and places a string so she’ll know if anyone has entered her flat. In the lift, she hits the ground button only for the lift to get stuck. She panics as the lift begins falling rapidly. DSI Roy Grace (John Simm) climbs into a hole and meets Dr. Nadiuska De Sancha (Carolina Valdes) who begins telling him about the skeletal remains on the ground. De Sancha admits it’ll take the whole weekend to get her free from the silt. She explains why she thinks it is a female skeleton before revealing the hyoid bone is broken.

It is textbook strangulation while the wisdom teeth confirm the victim was over 17. She is likely between 24 to 40. Her dental work was probably completed within the past three decades. A cap on one maxillary incisor looks more recent than the others. Grace thinks about Sandy (Clare Calbraith) as DS Norman Potting (Craig Parkinson) jokes about someone’s career going down the sewer. After they climb out of the hole, Norman says it is a storm drain for the old Brighton to Kemp Town railway. People forgot it was there even though it links the city’s sewerage system that discharges a mile or so out to sea. Roy suggests the killer put the body there thinking it would flush it down to sea although Norman argues they didn’t consider that it wouldn’t flood.

They’re not excited to see DS Cassian Pewe (James D’Arcy) approach. Roy tells him he has enough people and that DS Glenn Branson (Richie Campbell) is away for a wedding anniversary. He apologizes he wasted a journey that he could’ve avoided with a phone call. Norman complains about Pewe after he leaves. Abby tries to call 999, but he can’t get service in the lift. She pounds on the buttons and begins screaming for help. In a flashback, Grace hangs out with Sandy and says she is the love of his life. She complains that he is looking at the annual crime report while they’re on a romantic trip away. Sandy makes him stop as things get romantic. However, it soon turns into a nightmare once he images that Sandy is decaying.

Grace wakes up from his nightmare seconds later. Cleo Morey (Zoe Tapper) checks on him and recommends talking to someone even if it isn’t her. He confesses it is work before apologizing for waking her and going back to bed. At the morgue, Nadisuka tells Roy that samples have been sent for analysis. She believes there were four fillings including three white composite fillings and one gold inlay. There is also an all-porcelain bridge from upper right six to four. She believes they’d found some carpet fibers although she could be wrong. It was found under the artificial nail from a nail bar. While the skin beneath rotted, the nail surprisingly didn’t wash away.

Since the fiber was under the middle finger, she could’ve been dragged along a carpet by her assailant. Roy imagines that it was Sandy being dragged as her fingernails rip into the carpet. While leaving, he tells Glenn that whatever went in with the body has long since washed away. Glenn believes something is up with Roy and thinks it might be DS Pewe, but Roy says Sandy had a tooth capped. She had the same height, build, and hair color. Glenn insists it isn’t her. He argues that Roy can’t keep imagining that every Jane Doe is going to be Sandy. Cleo walks up behind Roy as he admits that is what he always thinks and the last thing he thinks about before he goes to sleep.

Glenn excuses himself once he notices Cleo. She tells Roy that Darren had to cry off his shift. He says nothing before Cleo shakes her head and walks away. Roy tells Glenn he is going to book off for an hour because there is something he needs to take care of. Abby continues pushing the button until the lift moves and she hears a loud noise. Firefighters pry the door open before helping her out of the lift seconds later. Roy goes home where he looks at the blue carpet on his floor. When he visits ACC Alison Vosper (Rakie Ayola), he learns she has been welcoming Pewe to the team.

Alison says she is going to ask Pewe to look through his cold case files since Roy is going to be busy with the body in the storm drain. She asks Roy to explain his particular system to Cassian. After he leaves, Alison tells Roy that he might be able to learn something from Pewe since the Met is the biggest and most innovative police force in the UK. For starters, he can teach him how to run an operation that doesn’t leave Branson shot and Boutwood with possible career-ending injuries. She doesn’t want a personality crash and hopes they’ll be able to get along. He asks whether it is last in, first out since that is the tradition, but Alison says she was never one for traditions.

Abby calls her mother to tell her she is south of France. Her mother asks her about Harry who she calls that fella of hers. Abby says Horry is fine though. When she asks if anyone has called her, Abby’s mom says nobody calls her except someone about a car accident that she never had. Her mother repeats the questions before Abby tells her about Clerwell House and that she reserved a room there. She tells her mother not to worry about the money and that they’ll get her settled once the room becomes free. Her mom ends the call because the program with the antiques is getting ready to come on. After the call, we see an envelope addressed to Laura Mewan in front of Abby.

DC Nick Nicholl (Brad Morrison) shows Roy a list of all missing people in the county of Sussex who fall into the estimated period of the victim’s death. The list includes his wife. Roy says it should. Norman, DS Bella Moy (Laura Elphinstone), and the others begin discussing the storm drain which has a few entry points. The sewage goes far enough into sea to ensure it gets transported offshore by the current rather than towards it. It could’ve been an engineer or someone who knew the system since they were likely hoping the body would be carried out to sea. Norman says it isn’t a part of the sewer system as such and the line has been out of service for a while. Glenn suggests it could be trainspotters or urban explorers while Roy believes they’ll get somewhere once they have her name.

Abby gets a message on her phone asking her to take care of business and come home. Kevin Spinella (Alexander Cobb) shows up at her door asking for Katherine Jennings because he wants to talk about her terrible ordeal of being stuck in a lift for the weekend. She refuses to talk about it. Pewe begins looking through the cold case file belonging to Sandy Christina Grace. Roy talks to the press and suggests the murderer would’ve had good local knowledge of Brighton and Hove. They’re keen to identify the victim who would’ve been in her mid to late 30s at the time of her death. She was 5 foot 3 inches and her hair color was brown. Pewe finds that these characteristics match Roy’s wife, Sandy.

After the press conference ends, we see a brown van for sale. Abby calls Express Send Couriers and talks to Jonathan because she has a package to deliver. Someone eavesdrops on the conversation as Abby arranges for the package to be picked up around seven tonight. At the station, Norman reveals he sent the victim’s dental profile to several Brighton practices. They’ve learned that her name is Joanna Welbeck who was a married actress. She split with her husband before she went to Los Angeles to make a name for herself. Although Bella would like to talk to Mr. Welbeck, Norman says he died in a plane crash seven years ago. There is talk it might not have been accidental given the crowd he was running with at the time.

Cassian visits Margot Balkwill (Margot Leicester) to ask for a quick word with her and Derek (Michael Bertenshaw) about Sandy. After they go inside, Cassian tells them he has been brought in from the Met to review cold cases in East Sussex. He admits he doesn’t think Sandy’s disappearance has been adequately investigated. Cassian finds it odd that their son-in-law was never regarded as a suspect. He thinks radical steps need to be taken to eliminate him from suspicion and he intends to take them. When he asks whether it was a happy marriage, Margot says Sandy had to put up with being on her own a lot and being disappointed at the last minute when he got called out to work.

They don’t consider Roy a suspect and hope he won’t jump to conclusions, but Cassian says it is about closure and enabling them to move on with their lives. He suggests they can clear Roy’s name for once and all too. At the station, Norman says there was little wreckage. What they did find suggests the aircraft was subject to a sudden catastrophic event. It was a very stormy night so a lightning strike wouldn’t be out of the question. There was no mayday. Instead, the plane was there one second and gone the next. While they found some personal property, the bodies of Ronnie and the pilot were never found. Ronnie’s shoe was found so it was believed that he was on the plane when it went down.

His latest wife, Lorraine, identified all of it as his. Glenn says they should try to hunt her down. As for Joanna, her parents are deceased. Ronnie was arrested in 1997 when he was working at a dodgy car dealership with Sean Klinger who Norman calls Brighton and Hove’s very own Escobar. They got into trouble over a bunch of clocked cars before the garage burned down with all the records. They got 12 months suspended. Abby lets the deliveryman come up to the seventh floor. When she opens the door, he attacked her and enters the room. Ricky (Jake Fairbrother) says he isn’t mad about the new look. The next day, Glenn and Roy visit Sean Klinger (Steven Hartley) to talk to him about Ronnie. He admits he knew him and his wife who was an ex-lap dancer.

He calls her volatile and says you often get that with the highly sexed sorts. Sean goes on to say she’d let her mouth run away with her in drink. When Ronnie told her to tone it down, it’d turn into a screaming match. He never saw Ronnie give her a proper dig though. Roy asks whether he was capable of killing her. Sean thinks they’re all capable although that is academic now. Once Joanna realized Ronnie didn’t have the Midas touch, she left him and went to the United States. Roy tells him about the remains found in the Brighton storm drain on Friday. Sean claims he is shocked. When asked about Lorraine, Sean says she could have the top off the milk any morning. He thinks she sold timeshares abroad although he dropped out of Ron’s orbit by then.

He wasn’t in touch with Ronnie when his plane went down, but he sent a wreath with his sincere condolences. Roy asks about the rumor that it wasn’t an accident. Sean says he doesn’t like repeating baseless rumors. He claims Lorraine killed herself by stepping off the Newhaven to Dieppe ferry one night. Glenn asks about Ronnie’s other mates so Sean tells him about a guy called Chad Skebbs who supposedly emigrated to Spain. After the conversation ends, Ricky asks Abby why she’d want to courier old newspapers in a Jiffy bag. He wonders if she was trying to make someone think she had sent something else. Ricky thought he’d be able to get into her flat while she was away and search it, but it was locked up tight.

He begins searching through her luggage while asking where they’re at. Abby shakes her head indicating they’re not here, but nods to confirm they’re in Brighton. He finds a key for a safe deposit box and suggests they’re there. Cassian visits Alison to talk about Roy off the record. In seven years, the only officer to review the investigation into his missing wife is Roy. Cassian is adamant that would’ve never happened at the Met. Sandy’s parents feel nobody at East Sussex Police carried out an impartial investigation. As for Cassian, he just wants to make sure they’ve done everything possible to put their minds at rest.

Glenn says one wife sets off to America and ends up in a storm drain in Brighton while the other jumps off a cross-channel ferry. Bella says US authorities have no record of Joanna Welbeck having ever entered the United States. Roy speculates that Ronnie killed her, dumped her in the storm drain, and told everyone she had run off to Hollywood. Lorraine is still recorded as a MISPER. Her sister, Maureen, lives in Newdigate. When they speak to Maureen (Amy Conachan), she admits Lorraine was in a terrible state because Ronnie left a mess for her with his debts. She met him about eight years ago when he was looking for a place south of France as an investment. Roy asks if she sold timeshares, but Mo says it was overseas undeveloped plots of land people could build on.

She thinks Jersey might’ve been involved. She isn’t sure if they had a place abroad. Lorraine said Ronnie had business in Jersey and that is why he went there for something to do with his stamps. Mo tells them about Ronnie showing her the stamp in his wallet one night at a pub. He had paid 50 grand for the stamp in question. She suspects Ronnie was insured, but Lorraine never saw any of it because his creditors were all over her. She retreated into a shell and ended up in a rented flat on Montpelier Road once they cleaned her out. Mo believes the comedown and losing Ronnie pushed Lorraine over the edge. Roy realizes Ronnie would’ve been married when he met Lorraine. Mo explains that Lorraine thought he wasn’t getting on with his wife and there might’ve been another man.

The conversation ends once Mo says Joanna just walked out on him. As they leave, Roy says he wants to check the firm Lorraine worked for to see if Ronnie even found his investment. Glenn will call stamp dealers to see if he can find anyone who remembers Ronnie. Ricky returns to Abby and complains that she locked it away in a safe deposit box that requires iris recognition to open it. Since he knows taking one of her eyeballs wouldn’t be wise, he asks what would get her to play ball. He plays a recording of her conversation with her mother about the reserved room. Roy apologizes to Cleo while calling it a bad weekend due to the similarities between the skeleton and Sandy.

Once they go inside, Cleo admits she can’t imagine what it is like to lose someone like he lost Sandy. Roy is convinced that she is gone and won’t be coming back. The only two possibilities are that she won’t come back or she can’t come back. He accepted a long time ago that he may never find out what happened. If she won’t come back, he’ll know that she left him and no harm has come to her. He hopes that is the case. When she asks about what he said to Glenn, he admits there is nothing he can do about that. He doesn’t want something in his life to change how they are with each other. Ricky takes Abby out and warns her that her mother will die if she tries anything clever. She tells the Southern Deposit Security that her name is Katherine Jennings and she wants to access her safe deposit box.

Once they go inside, she sits down because she feels sick. She hasn’t eaten in 24 hours. When he opens the box, he finds it empty and Abby is already gone. She manages to flee in a taxi before he can catch up with her. He calls her to warn her once again. Roy holds another press conference in which he reveals the identity of the victim as Joanna Welbeck. Kevin asks whether Ronnie is the prime suspect in this, but Roy says they’re pursuing several promising lines of inquiry. Kevin stops Roy to tell him about the woman stuck in the lift. He felt something wasn’t right and someone might’ve tampered with the mechanism since they found a couple of syringes. They were unable to explain why the alarm system failed to ring his flat as it was supposed to.

Kevin tells Roy how the woman’s door was secured like Fort Knox. Later, Roy tells Bella about it so she finds more information about Katherine. If she is in trouble, Roy doesn’t want to miss it. Norman reveals he found a stepbrother for Joanna who goes under the stage name Mitzi Dufors. He is a member of Brighton and Hove’s LGBTQ+ community. Glenn finds out that there was a plot of land Ronnie was interested in not far from Biarritz. He didn’t get it. Instead, the property was acquired for an unknown client by a firm named Cape Trafalgar Holdings which was a sole trader outfit. The owner was David Irvin Nelson. Nick says a friend in the NCA says Ronnie was running gear in and out of the island on behalf of Sean Klinger. He might’ve been skimming more off the top than Klinger would’ve put up with.

There is suspicion that Klinger could’ve brought the plane down. We see a guard on Trafalgar property enter an old storage container. Norman goes to the club where Mitzi is singing and waits for it to finish. Mitzi (Dave Lynn) shows Norman a picture of Joanna and explains that he is her half-brother. Mitzi met Ronnie once or twice. It was always money this and money that. Mitzi knew they were all dodgy. He tells Norman about a pal of Ronnie’s who started sniffing around. It was either Chas or Chet and Mitzi wondered if Joanna had gone off with him. When her mother died, she left her a little place in Brentwood about six months before she went. Mitzi heard through the grapevine via Ronnie that she’d gone to LA.

It was believed she’d used the money from the house to fund traveling to America. Mitzi didn’t expect to hear anything else from her if she went off with a new guy. Glenn sends flowers to Ari. He confesses to Roy that their getaway didn’t go fine since his tandem skydiving plan didn’t go very well. He reveals he isn’t scared of heights now because it just disappeared. After he explains it to Roy, he is told that fear is sometimes the only thing that keeps us alive. Roy asks him to lay off the needless heroics for the time being. Glenn changes the subject in hopes of finding out what is going on with Roy and Cassian Pewe. Roy explains that the Met sent down reinforcements to help out once with the Labour Party conference in town. At the time, Pewe was a DI who ended up nicking a couple of informants that Roy had cultivated for several years.

Once Cassian refused to drop the charges, Roy took it to Vosper who sided with the blue-eyed boy down from the Smoke. Then, they get a call from Bella confirming the lift mechanism has been tampered with and the alarm and phone cables were cut. Mrs. Jennings hasn’t said anything yet, but she is a new tenant who lives by herself and only goes out after dark. A police officer using the bathroom finds something submerged in the water nearby. Roy returns to the station to talk to Nick who isn’t there. Glenn says he saw him talking to Cassian earlier. Roy wanted to know about the PNC on Chad Skebbs that Klinger mentioned. Bella says she was asked to do it and Skebbs is wanted in connection with an allegation of indecent assault from 2014.

They believe he likely fled to Spain as a result. Roy gets a call from Kevin who tells him that something is going on at his house. When Roy rushes over, he tells Kevin he’ll be back with him in a minute before barging inside. He is surprised to see Nick and others using GPR ground penetrating radar to check his backyard. Nick assumed he had approved this and admits he got a search warrant. The red vehicle is pulled out of the water in Biarritz. An officer prices the back open and finds a dead body inside. Roy goes to Cassian to complain about getting CSI to scour his property. He wants Cassian to call it off, but he won’t after talking to Sandy’s parents. Roy is adamant that there isn’t a stone he left unturned. Cassian wonders if that includes psychics, cranks, and mind readers.

Roy believes he’d do anything to get someone back that you loved, but Cassian knows he wouldn’t turn it into a three-ring circus. Roy reminds him that he was cleared and exonerated. Cassian says not to the standard that they would’ve applied in the Met. Roy makes a snide comment about the Met being infallible before leaving. Next, Nick says Ronnie’s life insurers got back to him and revealed the payout was three million pounds. Just months before Lorraine stepped off the ferry, she withdrew the entire amount in cash. Surprisingly, their joint account shows an ever-increasing overdraft with small amounts coming in.

They had money issues up until the day he died. There was an account in Lorraine’s name only likely for the life insurance. Glenn doesn’t understand how it was paid out that quickly. The insurance company wasn’t happy about it while the Drugs Squad investigation suggested there was another dealer who wanted to give Klinger a message to stay off his tuff. He might’ve been French. They could’ve blown up the plane and used Ronnie as collateral. Glenn wonders if there is a different pattern since both of Ronnie’s wives inherited money and ended up dead. If someone killed them, it couldn’t have been Ronnie since he was dead before his second wife supposedly committed suicide. Norman mentions what Mitzi said about a man sniffing around.

He has been searching around a man named Richard “Chard” Skebbs. It seems it wasn’t in the public’s interest to follow him to Europe. He has last been seen in Spain and southern France. Glenn says they have a lead from Hector Hegarty (Brian Pettifer) who is a stamp dealer and remembers doing business with Ronnie Welbeck. Abby goes to her mother’s home where she surprises her mother Paula (Elizabeth Rider). Cassian gets a call from DS Franks with Interpol since he asked them to look at a development site for him. Hector tells Glenn and Roy that he did a bit of business with Ronnie over the years and the provenance on some of his stuff was doubtful. Lorraine did contact him after her husband’s death although she made him swear to secrecy.

She came to see him in Spring 2016 because she wanted to invest some money in stamps. He fronted the purchases for her and spread the money around while claiming he was buying from an anonymous director. Glenn asks for a list of the stamps he sold and the value of each. Roy asks for information about anyone who could’ve afforded to buy them too. Back then, there was a chap Ronnie knew well, but he went abroad. Hector says the man’s name was Richard Skebbs although he called himself Chad. He always dealt with big numbers and still does, but it is done over the Internet now. Hector bought some Spanish Civil War era stamps from him and he did him right up. They weren’t in the condition he promised and Chad told him to sue him.

Paula tries to find out what is going on with her daughter since she knows she is frightened. Abby insists it is just a guy who wants to go out with her. Her fella isn’t in the country and can’t do anything about it because the tax man is after him. Abby calls a locksmith so they can install a safety chain and spyhole on her mom’s door. Grace finds Lorraine’s name on a post-it note on his desk along with DS Franks. Cassian tells him that the remains of a woman were found in the boot of a car pulled from a lake on the property the French looked at. Although they’ve obtained DNA from her and the fetus, they haven’t found any matches yet. Grace tells Alison that Lorraine was working for the estate agent that sold the plot of land in France.

Cassian reveals the corpse in the car had silicone breast implants. They’re all printed with the manufacturer’s batch number. The pair in question was supplied to a cosmetic surgery hospital in Woodingdean in 2015. Cassian called them and learned they matched the implants of Lorraine Welbeck. Roy tells his team about it and the fetus. Strangulation seems to be the cause of death. As for the plot of land, they’re looking at Cape Trafalgar Holdings and David Nelson. Grace wants to check the passenger manifest for the day on the night Lorraine supposedly jumped.

They contemplate whether Skebbs could’ve been involved in bringing down Ronnie’s airplane. When Ronnie died, he left massive debts and every penny he left had been taken by his creditors. Before Lorraine got on the ferry, she converted her husband’s life insurance into something much easier to carry and conceal. Abby goes back to her flat, breaks tiles on the wall, and tapes something that is likely the stamps. When Roy and Cleo return home, they find that the carpet has been ripped from the floor. Grace believes a man who hates him is trying to convince everyone that he killed his wife. Cleo confesses she keeps thinking about the possibility of Sandy walking through the door at any minute and where that would leave them.

Roy insists that isn’t going to happen. She wants him to say it wouldn’t matter because he is with her now. Cleo tells him to call her when he is through with all this. Paula gets a visit from someone claiming to be with Silverlight Lockworks. It turns out to be Ricky or Chad. Hector calls the detective after getting a call from a nervous young woman who wanted to know if he could sell a collection of high-value stamps. When he asked for details, the caller described the stamps he had purchased for Lorraine Welbeck. She claimed she had inherited the items from a woman she looked after in Spain. Supposedly someone told her she’d get a better price in the UK and recommended Hector. He reveals she is coming in later to show him the stamps. Roy asks for her name.

Moments later, they’re banging on Miss Jennings’s door. Once they get the door open, they find the property ransacked. When Abby enters her mom’s home, she gets a call from Paula who says Ricky wants to talk to her. Paula asks her to do whatever Ricky says. Abby threatens to call the police, but Ricky doesn’t think she’ll tell them that she stole everything he had. He asks whether there was any position he didn’t tell her to shag him in to get what she wanted. Ricky threatens to kill her mother if she calls the police. At the station, Nick tells Roy and the others that they’ve been going through the passenger manifest for the ferry. Nick suggests she stepped on as Lorraine and stepped off as someone else.

He went through all the female passengers traveling on a single ticket and compared them to anyone traveling on from Dieppe. He found one passenger who got on an Air France flight within an hour of the ferry docking to San Sebastian. The woman’s name was Margaret Nelson, but her ticket was paid for by David Nelson. Bella questions whether David Nelson could be Ronnie. Nick says he also has a David Nelson on a flight to Madrid and on to San Sebastian from Jersey the morning after Ronnie’s aircraft disappeared. They theorize that Ronnie faked his death to escape his debt while Lorraine converted his life insurance into stamps to fund her new life in Spain. Bella reminds them that Chad Skebbs possibly went to Spain too.

Glenn says Lorraine was found half a mile from the Spanish border in Biarritz and an hour to San Sebastian. Norman rushes in to confirm that the father of Lorraine’s fetus was Ronnie Welbeck. He also reveals that Katherine Jennings is downstairs. In an interview room, she tells them that her real name is Abby Morton. She flew back to England to attempt to escape her boyfriend. She thought it’d be easier to use a different name, but she was wrong. Glenn asks her to tell them everything about herself, her mother, and the guy who kidnapped her mother. Abby starts by saying she was left a collection of stamps that she knew nothing about. She was dating a guy named Ricky Skebbs who was in the rare stamp and coin business.

When she asked him to look at the stamps, he said some of them are worth something while many were replicas. A few days later, she was looking through one of his stamp magazines when she came across an article about a Plate 77 Penny Reds which went for over 450 large at auction. It was similar to what she had. While Ricky was wasted that night, she found out he had been sending emails trying to sell her stamps to people around the world. When they first met, she told him how stamps were great for laundering money. She remembered him saying something about hiding stamps in a book. She searched his books and found her stamps before she packed her bag and left.

Abby didn’t go to the Spanish police because she was afraid that he’d spin the story and get the stamps back. Her mother isn’t well so she wants to use the stamps to put her mother in a home. She is shown a picture of Ronnie, but she claims not to know him. They tell her that they’re looking for him in a connection with a double murder. She doesn’t know him or Dave Nelson. Abby says Mrs. Katherine Jennings left her the stamps. Abby was the old woman’s live-in caregiver in Spain. Before the interview ends, she tells them that the stamps are safe. Roy admits to the others that he doesn’t believe her, but he believes she is frightened. He suspects she is lying about how she got the stamps though.

They speculate whether Ronnie might’ve left Lorraine after he met Abby. Roy believes Ronnie got in touch with Ricky who ripped him off by replacing the real stamps with fake stamps. Glenn suggests Ronnie sent Abby to get them back. Grace says their priority is getting Abby’s mom back so they’ll have to wait for Ricky to make his next move. Grace tells Alison that Abby is waiting for Skebbs’ instructions in a motel room. She wants Cassian on the team in an observational capacity because he is an experienced hostage negotiator. She wants Ricky taken in alive with no loss of life. Abby calls before they head to the meeting point in separate vehicles.

As they ride together, Cassian tells Roy that he was trying to help even though he found nothing in his house or garden. They listen as Ricky instructs Abby where to go. Ricky threatens to kill her mother if he sees anyone else. Roy stops the car and allows Abby to continue alone. They watch from a distance as Abby meets with Ricky near his van and camper. Once she gives him the stamps, she kicks him in the privates and the back. Roy and Cassian speed toward them while Glenn gets out of the back of Abby’s vehicle. Ricky begins backing the vehicle up to force the camper and Abby’s mom over the cliff while Glenn struggles with him. Glenn gets him out of the vehicle, but the van won’t pull the camper forward.

Abby climbs into the camper to untie her mother. Other cops arrive as they quickly arrest Ricky and get into the van to give it extra weight. Cassian gets into the back with Roy and the others. Abby and Paula manage to escape the camper with their help before Cassian nearly falls through the back window. Roy helps him reach the front of the camper and get out. Roy climbs through the window just before the camper crashes to the ground below. At the station, Roy tells Alison what he thinks happened with Abby and the stamps. She tells him that none of this brings them closer to arresting Ronnie for Lorraine and Joanna. Glenn asks Roy whether they could put surveillance on Abby, but he suspects Ronnie has long flown the coop.

Grace says there is a chance Abby will lead them to Ronnie though. Abby visits her mother who is trying to win a fortnight for two at a luxury hotel in Mauritius since she knows her daughter could get her a passport. She would love for her mother to join her once she gets settled somewhere. Paula realizes they’re not going to see each other again. She says that is okay since she’d prefer that she remember her mother as she was. She gives her daughter advice about having children. As Abby leaves, she talks to someone on the phone and asks when she’ll see them again.

As David relaxes with another woman, he promises Abby that he’ll meet her at the airport. Bella tells Roy about Abby checking in on a Speedy Jet flight to Nice. Roy says let her run because they need to know she is on the plane and for Police Judiciaire to pick up surveillance on the other end. They need her to lead them to Ronnie. She apparently changes her appearance and loses the police enough. Then, she calls Roy to tell him Ronnie will be at Lipa Noi Airport at 11 AM local time. Abby throws her phone away and boards a plane for Rio de Janeiro. Alison learns that they’ve lost Abby, but Ronnie is awaiting extradition to the UK from Thailand. Glenn and Roy admit they likely won’t be able to do anything about the stamps.

Roy has no idea where Abby could be. Later, Roy and Glenn have a drink and discuss Abby. Glenn reveals that Pewe has applied for a transfer back to the Met. Roy believes being here was pushing him over the edge.

 

Grace Review

While nothing groundbreaking, Grace has been watchable from start to finish. It is a run-of-the-mill detective drama with a slightly longer runtime. The season has brought new characters in the form of Cleo Morey, Kevin Spinella, and Cassian Pewe with some being more impactful than others. With Cassian’s transfer, it seems his time on Grace will be short-lived. I would’ve liked to have seen more from Kevin since that could’ve added more diversity to the story.

The story for this episode was interesting although it has been done numerous times before. While there was excitement around the camper scenes, there was also too much unbelievability. Seeing two detectives climb into the camper was a bit odd. It was also a bit silly to just keep making Glenn hit the gas even when that didn’t work. I am unsure of the purpose of bringing in Cassian Pewe to investigate Sandy’s disappearance only for him to leave at the end of the same episode.

The series isn’t bad overall, but I do find myself getting bored midway through an episode. Unfortunately, this is further exacerbated by the fact that each episode is nearly an hour and a half when it could easily be reduced. The episode scores a 6.5 out of 10. Recaps of Grace can be found on Reel Mockery here. Find out how to support us at this link.