My Summer of Love

Please cross the bridge and turn left,

and continue to follow the road for 42 miles.

Please turn right and continue for six miles.

Please turn right. You have reached your destination.

All right. How you doing? I’m Edmond Murray.

Hi. Can I see your ID, please?

Of course.

Here you go.

Mr. Murray’s just arrived.

Copy that.

Good morning. My name’s Officer Birch. How you doing?

I’m the initial investigating officer. Uh-huh.

Ms. Richmond is waiting for you over by the water.

I’m Ethan’s dad. I know that, Mr. Murray.

I’m afraid that I cannot comment any further on the case.

Inspector Roy will be down here later on.

He’ll be able to fill you in on any questions.

Okay. Ms. Richmond is just down by the water,

if you follow the path over to the right. Okay. Thank you.

Joan!

Fuck. Joan!

What are they doing out there?

They’re looking for him.

They think he’s in the water?

I don’t know.

I don’t know.

What the fuck happened?

I don’t know.

That’s where he was sleeping.

You all right? I can’t go back there.

Can I go in there? No, sorry.

Fuck.

I’ve rented this place. I’m going to stay here.

Okay, I’ll stay somewhere near.

Good.

Would you be able to do something for me?

Mm-hmm.

I need you to go back to the house.

Ethan drew me a picture

the day before he left and...

I can’t stop thinking about it.

Thanks.

Do we know anything about the people that run that camp?

No, they said they’ve questioned everyone.

Did you meet them? Before you sent him?

Yeah, I mean... They seemed really lovely.

The woman was really lovely. I don’t... Uh-huh.

I... I’m sure they were fine. I’m sure they were fine.

I never would have sent him there if I thought that there was anything wrong. Ever!

I know, I know. You’re a good mum.

I know.

Hi.

Are you okay?

- Yeah. -Yeah?

-It was fine. -What did they want to know?

Well, they just had some questions.

What sort of stuff?

My relationship with Ethan.

Why?

No. Are you on your way back? Can you come back?

Okay, all right.

-Bye. I love you. -Love you. Bye.

Is that your man? Yeah.

Was it his idea to send him to the camp?

Oh, fucking hell.

Yeah, sure, it was his idea.

He’s my son. Okay?

It was my choice. I wish he hadn’t gone.

So do I. I didn’t want him to go in the first place, but...

kids his age, they’re doing stuff like that.

And Ethan’s not... He’s...

He’s different, and he...

he didn’t want to go.

And I knew he didn’t want to go.

He seemed okay, before he went?

I just... I just needed a...

I’m sorry.

Was it...

He’s been having a hard time.

Okay?

All right?

Get them ready to go.

Inspector, this is Eddy, Ethan’s dad.

All right, Mr. Murray.

I’m Inspector Roy. Inspector.

I’m running the investigation with my team here.

Mr. Murray, I’d like you to come into my office this afternoon at 3:00, please.

Of course, 3:00.

The details are on the card.

And my personal mobile number is on the back, should you need it.

Miss, are you sure you want to take part in this?

Yeah.

Yesterday, you seemed-- No.

You sure? I’m here. I can take over. No, I want to do it.

Very good.

If you’ll just listen to the instructions

and then I’ll tell you where to stand.

Okay. Thank you.

Attention, please, everyone!

This morning, we’re going to search this entire slope.

I want you to move through the bracken together.

You keep two meters apart.

If you find anything,

you raise your hand and you shout, "Here!"

It’s very important that you touch nothing.

Understood?

All right.

Thank you all for coming. Take your positions, please.

Where do you want us? You can stand here, at the end of this line.

Thank you.

Two meters, two meters.

Kennis! Let’s go!

Ethan! Ethan!

-Ethan! -

Ethan! Ethan!

Ethan! Ethan!

Ethan!

Ethan!

Ethan!

Ethan!

Who’s she? Inspector Roy can tell you.

Please, come with me.

How you doing? Mr. Murray. Please.

Is there any news? Nothing, as yet.

How are you coping?

I’ve-- I’ve known better days, you know?

Allow me to tell you where we are.

The alert plan has been triggered

since yesterday morning. Good.

We continue to interview everybody who has come into contact with your son.

Now, the supervising staff at the camp,

they tell me that they would do regular checks of the tents and the pods,

to make sure that the children were asleep and all was well.

The last check took place at 1:00 in the morning.

And he was in there?

He was in there. At that point, everything was fine.

When I looked at his cabin,

I could see his clothes were still in there, his bag was still in there.

His little snacks were still in there.

Now, Mr. Murray,

I have to tell you that we’re investigating every hypothesis,

including kidnapping.

Now, allow me to ask you a number of questions.

You may find some of these questions unsettling, intimate. May I?

No, don’t worry. You can ask me whatever you want.

First of all, I understand that you’ve been traveling a great deal.

You’ve been in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq. Why is that?

My work’s international.

I’ve been working abroad for the last ten years,

um, give or take.

I work in the oil fields, and I go wherever they send me.

Would you say your business, your work was dangerous?

The work, in itself, is not dangerous.

You can sometimes be in places where you are in danger.

And I am constantly aware, when I’m in certain places,

that I need to watch my back.

Have any of these things affected you, Mr. Murray?

Ah...

A subordinate of mine was taken hostage.

We went through a whole fiasco trying to get him back.

It was a fucking mess. And we ended up paying the hostage ransom.

Sir...

Oh, come on. If you’ve got something to say, you can say it in English.

I’d like to ask you for your mobile phone.

We need it for the purposes of the investigation, to retrieve the contacts.

It’s procedure. I’m not supposed to give my phone out.

I’m sure you can appreciate the importance of this, at this point in time.

I completely can.

The nature of my work means there’s sensitive material on here.

You just need my contacts? Yes.

Thank you.

It would be fair to say that most of the countries where you work

would be unsuitable to take a child to, yes? Most of them, yes.

The hours that I work, and the far-flung places I end up in,

even if they aren’t insecure, aren’t suitable for taking a child.

I can’t take him all over the world. He’s got to be in school.

He’s got to have his friends, got to have some stability.

He’s got to have a house, a family. And I can’t offer him that.

When did you last see your son?

I saw him at Christmas time. I saw him...

I saw him on Skype at Christmas time.

He seemed fine.

Do you have a good relationship with your ex-wife?

It’s not-- It’s not bad.

It’s not her fault we split up.

Is there any antagonism?

From me, none.

Do you have any contact with her new partner?

I’ve seen him on Skype a few times. He seems fine.

Have you security checked him?

Because isn’t it well known that nine times out of ten,

it’s someone you know, someone in your family?

This is the case, which is why it’s part of our primary investigation.

And you? Is there someone new in your life?

Yes. Yes, I have a partner.

I’ve been seeing her for five years.

Two years ago, your wife told you that your son was unwell.

I came back and we went away together for a month.

We had a cracking time.

We went all over North America.