- [Narrator] Previously on "Queens of Mystery".

- Volcanic Youth are recording a reunion record.

- Well hello, you lovely people.

- Bloody cow!

- Get off me!

- Girls, stop!

- Kurt, is that you?

(dramatic music) - Electra Bliss is dead.

- She was being watched.

- There was a reel on there yesterday.

The tape's been taken.

- You can't suppress the truth!

- Truth?

(laughs) - It's over, man.

- How can you claim to run a record company if you don't answer your damn phone?

(blade squelches) (blood dripping) (dramatic mysterious music) (dramatic mysterious music continues) (door creaking) (gears creaking) (crow caws) (keys clacking) (dramatic mysterious music continues) (door creaking) (water flowing) (crow cawing) - [Narrator] To lose one lead singer may be regarded as a misfortune.

To lose both, and your manager?

Looks like carelessness.

To Inspector Thorne, that meant tough decisions needed to be made.

- There's a murderer out here.

Nobody leaves until they're in custody.

- What if someone else is killed, sir?

- We better get it sorted before that can happen, Sergeant.

Or we'll both have blood on our hands.

(Matilda sighs) (camera shutters clicking) - To twist the knife isn't just an expression in this case.

- What, you think the killer wanted it to hurt, like a punishment?

- Maybe.

Then again, perhaps they knew it would do more damage quickly.

The body also looks like it's been moved.

- Because of an interruption?

- Well, it'd stop it being found as fast.

- Either could be true.

(soft dreamy music) - [Narrator] In that perfect moment, Matilda couldn't help thinking what a great team she and Dr. Daniel Lynch made.

- Uh, he, uh, it's a kitchen knife.

Seems to be a good quality one.

Probably German.

- [Narrator] And his knowledge of well-engineered cutlery did nothing to dampen her ardor.

- I also got the lab results back from Electra Bliss' autopsy.

There was cocaine in her system.

- That explains why the table was wiped down.

Someone cleaned up the room.

- To protect her reputation, or themselves?

- She was a rockstar.

They were covering their own tracks.

- [Terry] Matilda?

(Daniel clears throat) - Terry.

- Right.

There's only two shops in London that stock Gray River Vodka.

Here's their client delivery list.

- They have Collins.

Good work.

She was in the vicinity of both crimes, and had motive to kill Electra Bliss.

- Plus we've identified the drill bit used.

It's a-a standard high speed with a quarter inch shank.

They're very common.

- I've been thinking about that peephole.

It's almost too small.

(dark tense music) - [Narrator] As the newly widowed Tallulah signaled her grief with tears, those around her were left to wonder if they were, in fact, of the crocodillian variety.

(Talullah sobbing) - Enough with the filming already!

- I'm protecting us.

No one's gonna try and murder anyone on camera.

- Get that thing out of my face!

(camera crashes) (feedback whines) - Ow!

Oh, hey man.

That was unnecessary!

(birds chirping) (Tallulah sobs) - Switch it off, please Mr. Wimmer.

(Tallulah sobbing) Viv, I need a word with you.

In private.

Follow me, please.

(tense mysterious music) (tense mysterious music continues) So.

Are you a cocaine user, Ms. Collins?

- (scoffs) No.

Stuff makes me climb up the walls.

- Gray River Vodka more your thing?

I found a bottle by the road where Ringo the dog was killed.

- Ringo?

Is that his name?

That's a bummer.

It wasn't me.

I told you, I'm-I'm, I'm off the booze now.

- A local stocker said you're a very loyal customer.

- Ah, well, see, sometimes I buy gifts for people.

- Why deny knowing Electric Bliss wanted you out of the band?

We have the note that she wrote to you.

(Viv tapping foot) - Well.

(clears throat) The thing is, you see, I'm um, I'm paranoid.

My psychiatrist thinks that it's because of all the hard living in my past, and, um, and so really what happened was, you know, I-I-I just panicked.

- How come?

- Well, she wanted me out, and then she was killed, and so it, and it's gonna look like, that I'm guilty, which, you know, I'm not!

- You were seen coming out of the studio at 2:20 on the night Electra Bliss was killed.

(Viv sighs) - She slipped the note under my door, and I don't sleep much at night, so I read it, and then I watched her, you know, go outside.

- And you followed her out there?

- Yes.

Because I wanted to tell her she can't fire me.

Being in this band, it's my life!

(tense mysterious music) - Volcanic Youth wouldn't exist without me.

Now you, on the other hand.

(dark tense music) - "I won't let your inability to deal with the past ruin our future."

What in your past is she referring to?

- Uh, well I had a rough childhood, you see.

And that's why I drink.

Well, I don't drink.

I used to drink, I don't drink.

- We found you last night standing over Len's body.

- I told you.

I was stir crazy.

I just needed a walk, and there he was.

- A walk in the cold and the dark?

- Look, I've got a lot going on at the moment in my mind, you know?

I mean, Susan's death, and-and-and then Len trying to rush release her last song.

I mean, this is really heavy stuff, you know.

- Her last song?

(tense mysterious music) When did she record it?

- Well, on-on the night she died.

- And Len had the tape?

- Yes.

He said that he slipped back into the studio first thing the following morning, and before they sealed the place off.

Look, are-are you gonna charge me?

Because my psychiatrist says that I don't do very well with stress, and, you know, I think I've answered enough of-of-of all your questions now, and all that.

(Viv yelps) (Matilda clears throat) - [Matilda] We came in that way.

- You're right, I remember.

(Viv sighs) (birds chirping) - [Jane] What were you doing in a bin, anyway?

- So the bassist, Gina, was threatening Len, wanting money for something.

- We should tell Matilda.

- [Gina] You think that's motive for murder?

- I don't know.

The body looked staged to me, like, uh, like he'd been stabbed, and then positioned under the statue of Apollo.

- God of music, song, and poetry.

- The three things that Len didn't give a fig about.

Oh, he loved the music biz parties and the girls, but the one thing that he really cared about was cash.

- Maybe the killer knew that and was making a statement.

- Like some kind of poetic justice?

- Hmm.

- How big's this tape?

- It's about that big.

It'll be in a box.

(door creaking) (papers rustle) - [Terry] Retrodisc Records.

Volcanic Youth's new contract.

- Steven W. Tyne.

Let's get in contact with Mr. Tyne.

What's in the other one, Terry?

- [Narrator] He tried not to smile at her use of his first name, but it was hard.

- It's a legal letter, banning Jonas Wimmer from ever using an interview he did with Len.

- Now that's some TV I want to see.

(dark mysterious music) (reel clunking) - Ready?

♪ Oh the reason ♪ ♪ For my floods of tears ♪ ♪ Is 'cause you say we're surely dying ♪ ♪ Remember me ♪ ♪ 'Cause that's all you've got ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm a road ♪ ♪ That don't go home ♪ (feedback whines) Kurt?

Kurt, stop messing about.

Kurt, is that you?

- It's-it's not me.

I'm-I'm not in there.

- [Electra] Kurt, this isn't funny anymore- (feedback whining) Sorry.

- What did she say right at the end?

- [Terry] I couldn't make it out.

- I think it was- - [Electra] Sorry.

- "Sorry".

(soft mysterious music) - It says here Apollo was also the god of protection of the young.

- Who Len Savage literally spent most of his life exploiting.

- And the sun, light, prophecy, not to mention archery, the plague, medicine, and knowledge.

- Busy chap.

- So maybe we're barking up the wrong tree or statue or whatever with this whole poetic justice thing.

- Okay.

What about water?

- What about it?

- Well, Len's body was dumped in water.

- Was Apollo the god of that too?

- No, that was Poseidon.

(knocking at door) - Put that down, please.

- Sorry, force of habit.

I forget I'm holding it sometimes.

- The interview you did that Len didn't want you using.

I need to see it.

(camera shutters clicking) (reporters shouting) - You sure about this?

- Mm-hmm.

Len's gone.

Let's do this.

(reporters shouting) - [Reporter] Are you gonna be the third member of the band?

- We have a short statement to make.

(sobs) - The death of Electra Bliss and now the band's long-term manager, Len Savage- (Tallulah blowing nose) Is a huge tragedy.

But after careful consideration, we've decided that Volcanic Youth must continue, and that the two of us will soon be recording her last song and then going out on tour.

Thank you for your support during this difficult time.

(reporters shouting) (exciting music) - [Jonas] I heard that Volcanic Youth nearly split up after the '85 tour.

- Yeah, well you know, when your lead singer dies, it's, the surviving members of the band are bound to consider their futures, you know?

- [Jonas] Yeah, but you know there are all sorts of rumors flying around, that Nikki was murdered, or that she didn't want to be famous and faked her own death.

- You know what?

I've changed my mind.

I don't want to be in your crappy film.

- [Jonas] Oh wait, look- - Enough!

- You seem to have hit a nerve.

- You're not wrong.

He made it a condition for me being allowed to film the band during the making of this album that I sign a letter to never sell or even use this clip.

- Your documentary just keeps getting more interesting, doesn't it?

First Electra Bliss, then Len Savage.

- (laughing) I know, it's practically making itself.

(tense foreboding music) But obviously, I wish none of this had happened.

It's all very tragic.

(cellphone ringing) - What is it, Cat?

- I thought you should know, I overheard Gina arguing with Len about money that she was owed.

- Okay, thanks.

I have to go.

Call you back, bye.

Where were you yesterday between six and seven, Mr. Wimmer?

- In here.

Editing the rushes.

- Mattie's interviewing a suspect, and she's forgot to hang up.

- Put it on speaker, then.

- [Matilda] Couldn't have written a better plot, could you?

The band going to the house of a world-famous reclusive rockstar, and then the lead singer and their manager get murdered.

- She makes a good point.

Got everything a decent detective novel needs.

- Interesting characters, quirky world.

Plenty of mystery.

- Even some tunes.

- [Matilda] I'd imagine you'd have film companies lining up to buy it.

- A great documentary maker is a lucky documentary maker.

- And that's you, is it, Mr. Wimmer?

You're just lucky?

(cheerful yodeling music) - [Narrator] Jonas was, in fact, the latest in a long line of highly unfortunate Wimmers.

His great-grandfather had been killed in a freak yodeling accident.

His grandfather lost to a donkey in local elections, and never fully recovered.

And his father?

Well, the last said about his encounter with the Samoan arm wrestling champion, the better.

So, these murders were either a sign that the Wimmer luck was finally changing, or that Jonas had decided to change that luck for himself.

- May I?

- Mm-hmm.

- [Matilda] Had you worked with Len before?

- No.

This is my first film.

- [Matilda] So why did he hire you?

- Len didn't.

Fairsight films hired me after I answered their ad for a documentary maker in Wall of Rock magazine.

(tense mysterious music) - Check it out.

(keys clacking) - No website for Fairsight Films.

- Where can we can back copies of Wall of Rock magazine?

- Well, Pat Cardosa has an Aladdin's cave of music-related stuff.

Mags, albums, films, the-the works.

- [Jane] There is a link to this site, though.

(tense mysterious music) - I've got to go.

- Cat?

(bell jingles) (tense mysterious music continues) - How big is the business end of that microphone?

About a quarter inch?

- Your guess is as good as mine.

- What, you don't know?

- It's not my mic.

I borrowed it off Kurt after Sir Ray broke mine this morning.

(tense mysterious music) - Mr. Lee?

(Electra laughing on recording) (Electra sighs) (Electra giggling) - [Electra] Whoops!

Oh.

- I love the sound of her, that's all.

She was so full of life.

- [Matilda] Were you listening the night she was killed?

- Yes.

(drill buzzing) (dark tense music) (shower running) ♪ Remember me ♪ ♪ 'Cause that's all you've got ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm a road ♪ (giggles) This is good stuff.

- [Gina] The best, so go easy, all right?

- Is that Gina Galvin with her?

- [Electra] Don't be funny.

I can handle it.

- What's that chopping sound?

- They're, uh, preparing drugs, Terry.

- Oh, right.

Drugs.

Yeah, thought so.

(Electra sneezes) - [Gina] That's going on your tab, which, by the way, is well over its limit.

- [Electra] My tab?

I just got you a spot in the band.

That's gotta cover it.

- [Gina] You haven't settled up for months.

We owe a lot of money.

- [Electra] You mean you owe a lot of money.

(static buzzing) - Had a small technical glitch.

That's it, I'm afraid.

(tense driving music) (crowd cheering) - [Narrator] A stage dive fail of truly epic proportions had left Viv with back problems, and a deep mistrust of all East Lithuanian audiences.

(funky downtempo music) (cellphone chiming) (Viv sighs) (drone humming) - So do we arrest him or caution him?

- Just need to have a few words with her, first.

- Any other instruments.

It's not a problem.

(glass shatters) (tense driving music) - I'm the backbone of this band!

(both gasping) Stay away from me!

- You don't want to do this.

Viv, put that thing down, please!

- I'm sorry, Viv!

I shouldn't have gone along with it.

- We shouldn't have gone along with any of it.

But we can't change the past.

I still have nightmares about the lake.

It was an accident, Tallulah.

The brakes.

- I know.

- Nikki was our friend.

Why did we listen to them?

- We were young.

We-we were scared.

(drone humming) (gunshot fires) (glass shatters) (drone crashes) (Viv panting) (Ray clapping) (Ray laughing) (Patrick sighs) - Well, there's the Wall of Rock box.

What was it you were after?

- A small ad for a documentary filmmaker circa 2016.

- Um.

Should we have a look?

- Mm-hmm.

(soft tense music) - [Narrator] As the troubled drummer faced the prospect of a lengthy incarceration, Matilda wondered what it was in their past that they should not have gone along with, and how it related to Nikki Holler.

(tape clicks) (Cat sighs) - [Nikki] Cat?

It's me, Nikki.

I'm about to get a ferry home.

I just wanted to say that I missed you and I'm sorry.

- Come on, Nikki!

(tense music) Hurry up or we'll miss the boat!

- I really wanna see you and the baby.

Maybe give things another shot.

Except this time, there'll be three of us.

(horn honking) - Come on, Nikki!

- Tour's not been the same without you, Cat.

I spent my 27th alone in some crappy hotel room in Dusseldorf.

Look, I'll call you tomorrow when I get back.

I love you.

- I love you too.

(receiver clicks) (line beeps) (Cat sighs) - [Nikki] I spent my 27th alone in a crappy hotel room in- (tape clacking) I spent my 27th alone- (dramatic mysterious music) (paper rustles) - Coordinates for Len Savage's house.

- Ah.

161, 803.

The lake that gives Viv nightmares.

"Carry your sin through a moonlit wood."

Moonlit wood.

(keys clacking) - [Terry] Moon phases?

What- - Hang on.

- Why 31st of July, 1985?

- That's the night Nikki Holler drowned in Len Savage's pool.

- [Terry] Whoa.

- Yesterday when I asked you about an accident, you panicked.

Why?

(papers rustle) Len's house.

The lake.

The woods.

"Carry your sin through a moonlit wood."

Nikki was your friend.

It's time the truth came out.

(soft tense music) - We were nearly at Len's house.

(rain falling) - You got a beer?

- No, no.

Yo, Viv!

(Viv laughs) - Len, yes.

- Beer!

- Here.

- Thanks.

(bottles clink) - I only took my eyes off the road for a minute.

(van crashing) (all shouting) (van crashes) (water splashing) The van was sinking.

Nikki didn't make it out.

(all coughing) Len reckoned that we'd all end up in prison because of all the drugs in the van.

- No, no!

I'm not doing that.

- [Viv] Me and Tallulah didn't want to, but Len and Susan made us.

- Come on.

- That's what we have to do.

(dark tense music) - [Viv] Len said that we owed it to the memory of Nikki to protect the band.

We moved the body.

- [Matilda] Protect the band?

What for?

- [Viv] Because nothing was gonna stand in the way of making Susan a star.

- So the four of you made it look like after taking too many drugs, Nikki drowned in the pool.

A classic rock and roll death.

(soft tense music) And then 33 years later, Electra Bliss has the nerve to kick you out of the band.

After you'd lived with the guilt and the pain all that time.

So you killed her.

- Look, I'm a pill-popping alcoholic.

My head's all messed up.

And I've made some terrible mistakes, but I swear to God, I did not kill Susan or Len.

(knock at door) - [Terry] Matilda, can I have a word?

- This interview is suspended.

What is it, Terry?

- Uniform just called from the house.

They've searched Gina Galvin's room.

- Did they find her stash of cocaine?

- No.

But Susan Foyle's missing jacket was hidden in her suitcase.

- That must be worth a lot of money.

So the question is, did Gina kill her for the Joplin jacket, or did she steal it when she learned their singer was dead?

- And I still can't get through to the record label.

Uh, also, your Aunt Cat's waiting in reception.

Said it's important.

(Matilda sighs) - Have you heard of the 27 Club?

- Uh, yeah.

The list of rock stars who all died at that age?

- Janis Joplin was a founding member.

- The jacket.

- Nikki drowned three weeks after her 27th birthday.

- [Matilda] Making her a member of the club.

- Exactly.

It's why Volcanic Youth named the next album "Twenty Seven".

I think it's all connected.

(soft tense music) - There's something I need to tell you.

It's about Nikki.

(soft mysterious music) (birds chirping) - Got it.

- Oh.

- Oh, hang on a minute.

Fairsight Films.

Rings a bell.

They contacted me a couple years ago to ask if I'd got any archive footage of Volcanic Youth.

- Do you have any?

- Yes.

A lot.

- Let's give them a ring.

(call dialing) - [Steven] You've reached the office of Steven W. Tyne at Retrodisc Records.

Please leave a message.

- Strange.

It's now a record company.

- Oh.

- Didn't Cat say that's who Volcanic Youth have recently signed with?

- Yes.

(soft tense music) (Cat sighs) - Here.

- I can't believe they did that to her.

- I think Viv and Tallulah were pressured into it.

- Yeah, well Len always was a bully.

I watched Electra Bliss become one.

Still.

What is all that?

- Oh, it's a transcript of the audio that was recording in the studio just before Electra Bliss was murdered.

- What, Susan said all this?

- Yeah.

Though the last word was hard to hear.

The tape was slowing to a halt as it was said.

- (scoffs) Well I'll tell you right now, it's not "Sorry".

- How do you know?

- Because Susie never said "Sorry" in her life, not to anyone, not once.

- Can you work a studio console?

- Yeah.

I know my way around one.

(cellphone ringing) - Beth?

Yeah, I'm with the kid now.

We think it's got something to do with the 27 Club.

- The 27 Club?

- [Cat] I-I'll put you on speaker, hang on.

- Mattie, we did some digging into Fairsight Films and found they're now called Retrodisc Records.

- [Matilda] Volcanic Youth's record label?

- Yeah.

Turns out Retrodisc has never released any music.

- Well maybe they're just a new company.

- Well, that's what we thought, but Patrick Cardosa rang round a few people, and none of them have heard of Retrodisc or Fairsight Films, or Steven Tyne.

- [Matilda] We haven't been able to contact him.

- Steven W. Tyne is not a man.

He is an anagram.

- Twenty seven.

- Oh Mattie, I wanted to say it.

(tense dramatic music) - Keep everyone in the house.

- Yeah.

(soft mysterious music) - Well, this is the archive footage that I have of them.

Concert clips and interviews.

- Right, well where should we start?

- Well, there's a very rare copy of an interview that Nikki Holler did five weeks before she died.

It was never broadcast out of a mark of respect for her family.

(blows off dust) In fact, Fairsight Films wanted a copy of it.

Ready?

(soft mysterious music) (reel clicking) - [Interviewer 1] Volcanic Youth have been threatening to break into the mainstream.

Are you an ambitious band?

- (sighs) I just play songs and hope that some people like them.

I don't really care how many people, as long as I make a connection, the numbers don't matter.

Sorry.

(reel clicking) Sorry.

- So, what do you think?

- It does sound like "sorry".

I just can't picture her saying it.

- You wanna know about my mother?

Well, she was a pretty tough lady.

I mean, she had to be.

She brought me up on her own.

- [Interviewer 1] What about your father?

- I don't know who he was.

My mum, she only told me one thing about him.

(cellphone ringing) - Aunt Beth?

Nikki Holler's dad was in a band?

Hang on.

Play it again, Cat.

- [Electra] Sorry.

- I know what Electra Bliss is saying.

It's not "sorry", it's "Sir Ray".

(dramatic mysterious music) Wait for me in the car.

- [Cat] Okay, kid.

But be careful.

- [Matilda] Yeah.

(Cat yelping) - Quiet!

I'll kill you!

(tense dramatic music) - Where's Sir Ray?

- He's just gone to the bathroom.

- No one else leaves for any reason.

(glass clatters) (Tallulah wheezing) Tallulah?

Tallulah!

(Tallulah groaning) - She's been poisoned!

- Hold her head, hold it!

- Just keep her steady.

Keep her steady.

(Tallulah retching) We're here, yeah we're here.

- We need an ambulance, fast.

(Tallulah groaning) - [Officer] PC Foster, come in.

- [Terry] Go ahead.

- [Officer] We have a situation at the gate.

(Tallulah groaning) - [Terry] DS Stone is en route.

Over.

- Help!

- We're here.

(Matilda panting) (engine revving) - Get back!

(engine revs) - Tell the officer to let us leave!

- This won't bring Nikki back.

- They have to be held accountable!

- [Cat] That's what the courts are for!

- It was too long ago!

Unless one of them confessed, the evidence is all long gone!

This was the only way!

- Sir Ray.

- It's Len.

Savage.

(knife squelches) (tense foreboding music) - Thanks.

- I won't let you take my aunt!

- I have no grievance with her!

- Why should I believe you?

- She didn't exploit my daughter's death like the others!

They moved her body to save their asses, and then used her death to take headlines, to get famous!

They even made a bloody album about it!

- Twenty Seven.

(Ray laughs) But you're the mastermind, aren't you?

Hiring Jonas to interview the band so you could decide who was guilty, creating Retrodisc Records to get them here, killing two of them, maybe even three, judging by the state Tallulah's in.

- She's a clever girl, your niece.

(Ray laughs) You should be thanking me!

It was all for Nikki!

- If you really cared about Nikki, you would've made contact with her.

You knew about her, didn't you?

(engine revs) 57 years ago, you chose not to be a parent to the most amazing person.

She called herself Nikki Holler, and she burned twice as bright and half as long as most.

Nikki's death has never made sense to me, and I've spent many years trying to find out what really happened to our daughter, but now I'm out of time, so it's your turn, Ray.

Do not fail us again.

(Ray sobbing) - I-I gave Nikki my talent.

- You think that's enough?

It's not.

It's nowhere near.

- What do you know about it?

- I know how it feels to have an absent father, to wonder who he is and why he's never been in contact, I know all about it!

(engine revving) - Now get out of my way!

Move it!

Open the gates!

Or this gets ugly!

- Do as he says, kid.

(engine revving) - Move aside!

- Get back!

(engine revving) (camera shutters clicking) (tense dramatic music) (Matilda panting) (engine rumbling) - How did you find out what really happened?

- The backmasking.

(upbeat rock music playing) (vocals playing backwards) (record whooshes) ♪ Carry your sin ♪ ♪ Through the moonlit wood ♪ - [Ray] It felt like a confession.

- [Interviewer 2] Tell me about Nikki.

- [Ray] I saw it in their eyes when they talked about Nikki.

Their guilt.

- [Electra] When she died, I took the band in a different direction, and that's when we actually started having some success.

(dark rock music) - And there was Viv Collins' autobiography that was dedicated to her therapist.

You'd be surprised how 50 grand will persuade a Harley Street shrink to spill their client's deepest, darkest secrets.

(gravel crunching) (tense mysterious music) (Ray grunts) (tense music continues) - You know, all these years I blamed myself for not being there.

I thought Nikki died because she'd taken something, or there was something I could have done to prevent it, but ... - I may not have known Nikki in life.

But we'll meet each other soon.

- Well I'll tell you one thing about her.

Nikki was nothing like you.

And she would've hated what you've done.

(engine revving) (Cat crashes) (dark tense music) - Hey!

- Oh god.

Aunt Cat?

(Cat groans) - Ah, I'm getting too old for this.

He said he wanted to be with Nikki.

Now I think I know which way he was going.

Come on.

(tense mysterious music) We're too late.

(tense dramatic music) What are you doing?

- We can't let him win!

(water splashing) (ducks quacking) (dark eerie music) (eerie music continues) (soft dramatic music) (soft dramatic music continues) (door creaking) (dramatic music intensifies) (music stops) See you at the station.

I spoke to the hospital.

Tallulah's gonna be okay.

Luckily she didn't drink it all.

She'd be dead if she finished the glass.

(Cat sighs) - You know you did the right thing, kid.

- Are you coming?

- Uh.

I'm gonna stay here a while.

Mattie?

- Hmm?

- What you said about your dad.

- Oh, forget it.

I was just trying to get him to connect.

(soft music) I had you three.

It's-it's been more than enough.

- [Narrator] It had been 22 years, 17 days, and 12 hours since Matilda decided never to ask about her father, and she suddenly wondered if she needed to reevaluate her thinking.

Meanwhile, Cat's mind turned to the other great sadness she still carried.

The relationship with her only child, Annie, or lack thereof.

(call dialing) - [Annie] Hello, this is Annie Stone.

I'm sorry I can't take your call at the minute, but leave a message and I'll get back to you.

(Cat sighs) (soft emotional music) (officers speaking over police radio) - Quite the sweep from Sergeant Stone.

Good work.

Both of you.

- Thank you, sir.

- It's a pretty dramatic end to your film.

Should you need an interview, one could easily be arranged.

(car engine starts) - Well, that would have been great, but now I know the truth, I'm not sure I want any more part of it.

(soft whimsical music) - I really think she'll like him.

- How did you manage to convince her this time?

- She's under the impression that this is just a family outing.

- Hmm.

- The words "blind" and "date" were not mentioned.

- [Narrator] Concerned to see they were one short for their skittles team, Matilda was excited to spot a potential recruit.

- Daniel, hi.

- Hey.

- Oh, hi Melinda.

Come on.

- Looks like we're teammates.

- [Narrator] Matilda immediately suspected this coincidence to be one of her aunts' making.

- I want that hamper.

- Yeah.

- [Narrator] Not one to let a setback dampen her spirits, Matilda determined that the best way to enjoy the evening was to win, and win big.

(pins clattering) (all cheering) For any victory, however trivial, would bring with it a respite from her unresolved feelings for Daniel, and the recently resurfaced questions of who her father was, and whether he was still out there somewhere waiting to be found.

♪ Keep things a mystery ♪ ♪ You know ♪ ♪ They have history ♪ ♪ And no, it never ends well ♪ ♪ It's called ♪ ♪ Death by vinyl ♪ (bright mysterious music) (bright mysterious music continues)