June 1970. A man is killed on the same towpath as Molly Andrews. Thursday, unwilling to close the case after a suspect confessed to Benson's murder but was also charged with Andrews's murder, patrols the towpath at night. An Indian takeaway driver is lured to his death at a flat of a TV cooking-show personality, Oberon Prince, who has gone missing. Racial tensions in Oxford rise during the run-up to the general election when an Anglo-Indian youth is fatally stabbed by a young supporter of far-right candidate Martin Gorman, whose daughter lives in the same block of flats as Prince. Morse discovers Prince was a gambler in card games run by Gorman and had recently won a lot of money. Ludo Talenti tells Morse his wife is away and invites Morse to his home but Violetta is there. She later secretly meets Morse to rekindle their affair but he rebuffs her. Violetta undeterred arrives at Morse's home and he succumbs to her advances.