As the episode beings, Jojo (Nigel Lindsay) and Lauren (Laila Rouass) get romantic. The kids party like crazy back at their home. Sia (Amy-Leigh Hickman) steps outside for a cigarette. She finds someone floating face down in her pool. She tries to call her parents, but they’re too busy to answer. Sia pulls the body from the pool. It is Chris (Freddie Thorp). Sia breaks up the party. Jojo and his wife are forced to leave their vacation and return home. Lauren suggests calling the police. Jojo becomes angry when he learns that his daughter sold drugs at the party. He agrees not to get the police involved. He tells Sia that everything they have is about to go down the toilet and she will be going to jail.

He admits that they cannot call the police. He suggests giving the parents hope by pretending that Chris has gone mission. Lauren doesn’t like the idea, but she has no choice. Tom (Michael C. Hall) visits them the following day. Once he leaves, Lauren and Jojo carry the boy’s body to the garage. They wonder whether Jenny might have killed Chris or she knows he is dead. The body is dumped into a freezer. After the intro, Tom calls Pete (Marc Warren) and asks about Jenny. He doesn’t answer. He visits Pete’s house. Again, no answer. Tom eventually gets in touch with Sophie (Amanda Abbington) and asks to see her. Emma (Hannah Arterton) meets with Neil Chahal) (Joplin Sibtain). He is told that his wife has been arrested. The house is searched.

Tom tells Sophie about Pete and Jenny. They contemplate whether Pete could be involved. He explains that Pete was always there for him in the past. Sophie suggests that they need to find him right away. They discover that his car was last seen near a low budget motel. She teams up with Emma and they rush over. Emma reveals that Neil never said anything about his missing son. the teacher is allowed to speak with her lawyer. Pete’s vehicle is stopped. The woman chase him down. They lose him after noticing he has someone in the car with him. They catch up with him and turn on their lights. Pete keeps going. He eventually pulls over. Pete claims he never saw them. He also denies knowing where Jenny is. Pete seems surprise to learn that Jenny is missing. Neil looks through his wife’s belongings and his wrecked house.

He loses it and knocks stuff over. Pete gets in touch with Tom. He explains that he picked up Jenny and dropped her off at her home’s gates. He insists that Jenny called him from the party. When asked if there is anything between him and Jenny, Pete reveals that he is gay. He tells Tom that he made Jenny promise to never drink and drive or ride with anyone who is drunk. He admits that Jenny was drunk and angry. Tom hands up and gets out of the car. Emma admits that she doesn’t believe him enough. Tom searches through Jenny’s room. He finds an international money transfer. It seems that she was sending money to a Mr. Li Wei Lao in Beijing, China. Tom looks him up online. He uses his daughter’s device to check the guy out too.

He sends him a friend request. Li accepts pretty quickly. He contacts Li. Li tries to sell him a fake ID. Pete arrives outside. Tom believes that it has something to do with her boyfriend. He shows Pete the message of Jenny begging Chris not to do something. He wonders whether it could be a suicide pact or something. Emma wants to know why the case is a priority. She believes the teacher is more important. Sophie leaves Emma to interview the teacher alone. Tom and Pete speak with the gatekeeper, Todd. They find a video of Jenny returning through the gate. Jenny headed in the wrong direction. She headed toward Eric Pratchett’s house. Emma interviews the teacher. Zoe (Audrey Fleurot) isn’t cooperative.

She suggests it might be revenge from someone who is angry with her. Emma reads some of the messages found in Zoe’s locker. Zoe suggests that the photos could be photoshopped. Zoe is shown a photograph of a tattoo. She admits to having a similar tattoo. Tom and Pete meet with Eric (Ben Onwukwe). Eric admits that Jenny ran across his lawn and the security light came on. He yelled at her and she took off. Eric’s house backs onto Neil and Zoe’s house. They sneak around back and find a way into Neil’s yard. Tom spots Neil pacing around inside. Sophie and Darren speak about Emma. We see that Jojo and his family are hiding from them upstairs. Sophie notices that a plant near the pool has been moved. Jojo is happy to see them leave. Sia comes up with an idea, but she will need Chris’s thumb. Zoe gets bail.

She will be suspended from her job though. Tom and Pete speak with Neil. Neil wonders why Jenny would sneak into the garden when Chris was at the party. Neil admits he isn’t worried about Chris anymore now that he is a man. He admits that Chris is angry because he is separating from his mother. He learns about the text messages. Neil shows them the room that Jenny helped decorate. Pete finds a list of numbers, which could reference trains. Zoe arrives home. Tom and Pete leave. Zoe tries to call Chris, but doesn’t get an answer. She calls someone else and tells them that there is a problem. Tom shows off Jenny’s picture at the train station. He gets a call from Carrie, who explains that Jenny is with Chris. Chris has posted photos online and they look happy together. Jojo and his family prepare to hide the body in his private work bathroom.
Lauren falls and gets hurt along the way. She wants to go to the police. Tom tells Sophie that Jenny might have just run away. Tom looks in the closest and discovers that the dress in the picture is still there. Sophie agrees to get tech to check into the photos. Jojo and Sia visit the police station. Sia uses Chris’s finger to get into his phone and post the picture. They tell the police everything, but nothing about Chris. Pete calls Tom with a possible breakthrough. He tells him that Heaven could be a gay bar. Tom tracks it down. He shows the workers a picture of his girl. The man in charge doesn’t believe she’d get through the door. Back at home, Lauren argues with her family for not telling the truth. Darren tells Sophie that he found out Jojo and Lauren left their hotel early.

He explains that they’ve been lying. Jojo and the others try to come up with a new day to dispose of the body. Martin interrupts. Sia cracks him over the head with a bottle. Emma researches Pete a little more. She gets his license plate. We see Pete walking around and being weird. He sneaks into a hidden place. The man from the club visits the grave of Tom’s wife.

 

Safe Review

Okay, the beginning of this episode was pretty good. It was intriguing and the mystery was great. There in the end, things got really lame. It is turning out just like The Five, which was also created by Harlan Coben. It is getting too ridiculous to take serious. Can’t fault Marc Warren and Nigel Lindsay though. Both have been great. This episode was hit and miss. A 6.5 out of 10 is deserved. Catch up with previous recaps of Safe right now.