Overview
- Police charge two villagers with perverting the course of justice after they admit helping to hide what happened to Ray Walters.
- The pair are later released on bail in the latest episodes, setting up further legal fallout.
- Detectives question whether the killer acted alone, pointing to a binding knot detail that the prime suspect could not replicate.
- Relatives consider recruiting false testimony to support a self‑defence narrative, before a key teenager pulls back from the plan.
- A younger resident weighs a written confession and contemplates leaving the village, teasing a possible exit storyline.