5. The Scales Fall

A second body is recovered and Burden finally discovers what fate befell Klara and what his obsession with the case has really cost him.

'Nothing goes away in this world any more. Nothing gets lost. If you don’t want a record of it, then don’t do it.'

When Belfast police camera operator Leslie Burden receives a call from a colleague concerning the disappearance of a young Polish woman, he uses his surveillance expertise to help track sightings of the missing woman, unaware he is being drawn into a web of murder and revenge even he doesn’t see coming.

Conclusion of Eoin McNamee's thriller.

Leslie Burden .... David Caves
Lisa Knox .... Niamh McGrady
Johnston .... Stuart Graham
Skipper .... Peter Ballance
Coastguard .... Allan Gildea
Diver .... Michael Liebmann
The Psychiatrist .... Fo Cullen
The Pathologist .... Kieran Lagan
Young Klara .... Julia Powaszynska
Father .... Jacek Powaszynski

Producer: Heather Larmour

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015.