Anna is pulled aside after Richard’s telephone call brings startling news: the man seen in the village may have been Bates. He is said to be working at The Red Lion in Kirby Moorside, a detail that leaves Anna shaken between hope and fear. Ethel is asked to leave, but the tension remains in the room. The question is no longer whether Bates is gone forever, but what Anna will do now that this fragile clue has reached her.