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When ten-year-old Jodie Gaines is found dead in a disused builder's skip, Brooks and Devlin investigate the cab driver who regularly takes Jodie to music lessons. He claims to have dropped Jodie directly outside her teacher's house – but the teacher claims she never arrived. Brooks and Devlin realise one of them is lying – and upon re-interviewing each witness, discover that the taxi driver did not take her all the way to the teacher's house due to roadworks blocking the route. The pair then look at the CCTV footage from the surrounding area. This corroborates the taxi driver's story, and also throws a new light on the investigation when a white builder's van is seen to be following Jodie. Brooks and Devlin suspect that Nick Carlton ( Philip Wright ), an ex-con working for a seemly harmless construction company, was in fact the man who kidnapped Jodie – and forensic evidence ties him to her kidnap. When the case reaches court, the accused is surprisingly allowed bail – but is attacked and murdered by Jodie's mother Kayleigh ( Anna Madeley ), a recovering drug addict who lost contact with the girl following a custody battle. Crown prosecutor James Steel seeks a murder conviction, even though he knows that Kayleigh will be likely to have the sympathy of the court. It appears that Kayleigh will be released – but Devlin and Brooks uncover a crucial piece of information: Kayleigh had hired Carlton to kidnap Jodie in a scheme to get cash from tabloids for the story. Nick realized that Jodie was sick and wanted to back out. The prosecution claims that Kayleigh killed him to ensure he did not tell the police of their plan.