The Gaps (Episode 4 of 4) - "One Person"

Martin comes at nine in the morning with a folder and a detective inspector's name. Nora is ready. The evidence the other Nora assembled — the paint sample, the repair records, the accident report, Alan Birch's signed statement — is enough to reopen the investigation. What follows takes fourteen months: interviews, challenges, a second witness who had assumed she was mistaken. She was not mistaken. Geoffrey Peel is convicted. Deborah's mother takes Nora's hand outside the court and says something that changes the shape, if not the weight, of what Nora carries. The gaps grow smaller. The journal fills with ordinary days. She...