Gina's boyfriend proposes but the answer isn't what the young man was expecting - nor her mother, who thinks Gina will spend the rest of her life alone. Cathy breaks up with her violent boyfriend Bill and seems to have an interest in PC Eddie Coulson who has recovered from his stab wound and has returned to work. DI Burns meanwhile believes George Stern is actually Stanley Collins, the second boy who disappeared in 1926, but he hasn't been in his flat for a few months and cannot be located. The body found in the park is identified as Patricia Booker whose parents had reported her missing. It seems to be the work of the rapist and with pressure mounting Gina agrees to to act as a decoy. The police arrest a drunken Bill and then leave Gina in the park where she is attacked by the real rapist.
—garykmcd