Episode 2 | Written by Gwyneth HughesWednesday 24 January 2007, 9pm, BBC One
The disappearance of Leanne and Rosie is now headline news, as the media moves through their neighbourhood.
The media attention has put the case under intense pressure. The police have been unable to trace either the East European flower seller, last seen in the lay-by, or the man who abducted Rosie.
Police Press Officer Defne Topcu ("Tops") tries to enlist both the family and DCI Barclay to attend a major press conference. Husband Matt refuses to go and Barclay seems at best indifferent.
The press conference goes ahead, but is a painful fiasco. Barclay, busy with a lead from a journalist, doesn't appear. Matt agrees to come after Sarah – the young woman who found Ethan – intervenes. He's then thrown by a question from ambitious local journalist Josh, who asks how he feels about the fact that his missing wife is pregnant. This is news, not just to Matt but to all the family – and a despairing Matt leaves the conference without a word. It's left to Leanne's mother, Barbara, to make an emotional appeal for Leanne's return.
Her very public breakdown is the lead story on the national news that day. Increasingly isolated, Matt starts to feel like a suspect himself.
Meanwhile, local care worker Hazel Betts – who works in Vic's retirement home – is beginning to suspect her son Kyle may have been involved in Rosie's abduction. He has a Transit van like the one described in the news, which he is constantly washing. He also has what looks like a dog bite on his hand. Claiming to be a neighbour, she calls the police to accuse him. The net starts to close in around Kyle.
The police then receive some good news. The missing flower-seller Branko is picked up and arrested at a local flower market. And reporter Josh – looking for photos in the caravan owned by Leanne's grandfather, Vic – finds Rosie. She doesn't know what happened to her, but she is at least alive and physically unharmed.
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The Cast
Hugh Bonneville
DSI Iain Barclay
David Oyelowo
Matt Wellings
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