Apartment 6

## Synopsis

Matthew Heawood deals with the sudden appearance of someone he thought long gone. Meanwhile, Kennedy Fisher attempts to dig deeper into her family history, and is not comfortable with what she finds.

## Plot

Matthew Heawood plays the last of Henry Akeley's recordings for the audience, first heard in Episode Five of *The Whisperer in Darkness*, in which Henry describes sending his research into the occult activity at Rendlesham Forest to someone he trusts to act on it. At the time, Matt had thought that person was Dr. Eleanor Peck, but Eleanor denied receiving anything or knowing who did. Matt had wanted to find out who this person was, but had no time to investigate further.

In Mosul, Matt interviews Melody Cartwright after their run-in in the previous episode. Melody explains that she was kidnapped and imprisoned by Barbara Sayers and an unknown man in bandages at several unknown locations. They wanted her to be a 'vessel' for something, but Melody refused. Eventually, Barbara began disagreeing with the bandaged man about their plan, arguing that Melody's refusal meant that their plan would fail. Six months ago, the bandaged man gave Melody an ultimatum: submit or die, and Barbara helped Melody to escape, something Matt finds difficult to believe. Now free, Melody went to the police and was picked up by The Department of Works who saved her life, but also kept her captive. During this time, an unknown Department agent, who Matt suspects to be the Mystery Woman, interrogated Melody to check if she was brainwashed, and to find information about Matt. When they moved Melody from one site to another their truck was hit by an improvised explosive device, and she escaped in the chaos. Not knowing where to go, she remembered the café from the one time Barbara had let her out of her prison, and went there. She saw and recognised Matt from what the Department had told her, and followed him to and from the café. Matt tells Melody of Barbara's death and shows her the dash-cam footage of Barbara's last night alive. She recognises the other woman in the footage as the bandaged man's employer: Daisy Marsh. Matt calls Kennedy Fisher, relays what Melody had told him, and explains why he called her in the middle of the night. Kennedy notes that there is a Marsh family in Innsmouth that could be connected to the Fishers. Matt tells her that he still hasn't heard from 'Jasper', but is wanting to leave Iraq.

In The Gilman House Hotel, Kennedy looks through the research Alice gave her on the Fishers. She discovers that the Fishers were originally from Chelmsford and that the first Fisher in the Americas was Quentin Fisher, a settler of the infamous Roanoke Colony whose inhabitants, including Quentin, vanished in late 1580s. The first Fishers in Innsmouth were Quentin's granddaughter Temperance Fisher and her son Matthew Fisher who left England in 1645, which Kennedy speculates was a response to Matthew Hopkins' witch-hunts in Essex that year. She notes that there's some confusion in the records over Temperance's birth and she speculates Temperance may not have been Quentin's son's child as the records claim. She also notes that the records disagree on Matthew's father, with the Innsmouth records describing a 'Mr. Fisher' who died in England that the English records don't mention. She's also confused as to how Temperance had the money to not only start over in Innsmouth, but build a house and a naval trading business with a man named Obed Marsh, as there's no evidence the Fishers were a wealthy family. She finds that first ship Temperance builds is named *The Ipqu-Aya*, which disturbs her.

Matt allows Melody to sleep and wash in his hotel room in Mosul, but Matt refuses to sleep himself as he does not entirely trust her. 'Jasper' has still not been in touch and Matt has become concerned for his friend's safety. Distrustful of Melody but sympathetic to her situation, Matt asks Melody about her family in an attempt to get her somewhere safe. Melody tells Matt that her only family is her mother, that they haven't spoken in three years, and that she categorically refuses to go to the consulate after what happened when she went to the police previously. Melody deduces Matt's position on her and calls him out for ultimately wanting to leave her in Iraq, but does decide to leave him. Guilty, Matt offers her breakfast at the hotel and she accepts. At that moment 'Jasper' calls and tells Matt that he is leaving Iraq for reasons he doesn't share. He's arranged for a ghost flight to take Matt and Melody to London in two hours, and gives Matt instructions and the location of an airfield. Matt asks how 'Jasper' knows about Melody, and cryptically responds that he's got 'eyes on' him.

At Casey's advice, Kennedy goes to the Innsmouth Historical Society building to look for the head of the society: Zadok Allen. She finds that there is no one in the tiny, one room building. She gets a call from Alice and Kennedy asks her about Zadok but Alice doesn't know him. Alice asks where Kennedy is, and is confused when she responds as Alice had thought she'd seen Kennedy near to her. Alice tells Kennedy she has something to show her, and Kennedy eventually gets past Alice's dramatic flair and finds out it's a graveyard, much to her dislike.

Matt and Melody slip out a side door of the hotel as police enter the building, presumably looking for 'Jasper' or Matt. Melody calls a taxi and they head towards the airfield. They are driven past the café and find it has been destroyed by an explosion, which a shocked Melody blames 'Jasper' for. As they travel, Melody hears a muezzin perform the call to prayer and recognises the man's voice from when she was the cult's prisoner. She and Matt leave the taxi and after searching, are able to determine the apartment where she was held captive. They break in and find it abandoned, though evidence of Melody's torment remains. They find maps of Nineveh, and of the outskirts of Paris, and a collection of letters from a Parisian archive which Melody claims she can translate from French. Matt meanwhile, finds a pile of papers discussing various aspects of the occult conspiracy they've been investigating. The papers are addressed to Barbara Sayers from Henry Akeley.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Kyle Soller as Casey
* Steven Mackintosh as 'Jasper'
* Karla Crome as Melody Cartwright
* Jennifer Armour as Alice
* David Calder as Henry Akeley (archive audio)

* Writer & Director: Julian Simpson
* Production Coordinator: Sarah Tombling
* Sound Designer: David Thomas
* Music: Tim Elsenburg
* Producer: Karen Rose