After Fallon's death, Dalgliesh finds a library book in Fallon's room and a letter in Pearce's pigeonhole about a patient of Courtney-Briggs' called Martin Dettinger.

Wilfred announces that he will transfer the Grange to the Ridgewell Trust and hold a vote on whether he will carry on as spiritual adviser and, despite Eric and Helen's plot to usurp Wilfred, the majority of the Grange vote for him to stay, ensuring the Lourdes trips will continue. Grace's post mortem deems her death to be non-suspicious and Dalgliesh struggles to gather enough evidence to charge Wilfred.