Part 4 of 6 of the 1987 mystery. Thorne is angry with his wife after her interference in the case sees Roger Tindell go into hiding. And worse is to come as the hunt for his whereabouts threatens the life of his assistant. With Carl Sillman's takeover bid being referred to for investigations, John Field floats the idea to his boss Sir Max Sillman to investigate Fane & Browning, but Max is reluctant to do so, unaware that Dan Maitland is doing a little inquiries of his own via a colleague who works for them. Meanwhile Thorne visits Max's astrologer Musquat Singh, who often clashed with Charles Makepeace. Singh tells him he had a mysterious phone call by someone asking to visit him, but he never turned up. But Singh's assistant Krishna contradicts that alibi and mentions that he overheard Singh talking to a Scots man. One of them is lying - but who? And why?
