Ella asks Luke for the magnifying glass he used on his Ten Tors hike, an annual hiking challenge open to teenagers in South West England. Luke absentmindedly tells her he lost the magnifier ages ago. Meanwhile, Ella gets a call from Matthew, asking her to turn on the TV at once. The news shows Karl has been spotted in Marbella in Spain. Police have surrounded his building, but it appears Karl may have taken a blond woman hostage. There is speculation this woman might be Anna Ballard. Luke wonders if Anna never disappeared but simply ran away with Karl, sick of her life in Cornwall.

The call the DI received was about the stand-off in Spain. Police officers accompany Henry back to the Ballard house. At the house, Tim and Paul are over, glued to the TV along with Jenny and Barbara. Cathy, the family liaison officer, is over as well. Cathy dislikes the live coverage and the airing of interviews with locals, fearing it is making people assume that the blond woman with Karl is Anna. Barbara begins to weep, sure that Karl has Anna and might kill her. Henry admits that he should feel relief at the prospect of his daughter being alive, but he feels a sense of dismay as he is being forced to relive the nightmare of her being imperiled once again.