Bad Quarto V

She perceives now what the connexion is between John Tallentire's death fall and Susan Inchman. She also works out that David, the druggie boy that she brought into her college room, upsetting her room mate, is her brother, who like her was brought up in care because of his mother's imprisonment and her suicide. Imogen wonders if Susan might be hiding out on a boat in the area, she's recently discovered that there are several house boats on the canal where people live who like the water or who can't afford a house in Cambridge. She goes investigating but when she returns home she finds Fran waiting desperately to tell her that Martin Mottle has been injured in a fracas at the college, shots were fired and he is in hospital. Imogen rushes there and finds that David Inchman is also in hospital. Martin Mottle has been stabbed and is badly injured but he will live. He tells her that he has been used to carry a gun for protection and in the fight with David he shot at him. David is also badly injured. Susan turns up then to see her brother and she tells Imogen that she caused young Tallentire's death. She was waiting around near VG's room for a tutorial and John rushed past her to go and do his jumping from building to building. She recognised him, and blamed him for being the son of the man who sent her mother to prison... and she loosens the rope knot. David breaks in and says that it wasn't Susan, it was him. Imogen thinks that it is going to be hard to prove who did it, if they both stick to their stories. But she thinks that its more likely that Susan did it. She is stronger than her brother, she has a hot angry temper, and she is much more likely to have managed to loosen a knot than David. She doesn't know what to do. If Susan killed Tallentire, its going to be hard to prove. Duncan Tallentire has said that he thinks no good would come of pursuing a case against whoever killed his son, and he feels guilty because he is no longer sure that his opinion about shaken baby syndrome is correct. Martin Mottle realises that Duncan was probably right. He agrees to try to minimise David's punishment. The two young men go to court and both are given a suspended sentence. Duncan Tallentire pays for David to have drug rehabiliation. Imogen tells Susan that she thinks she killed John, and that while there was a motive, and she has been unhappy and ill treated she is clearly a bit of a loose cannon and she worries about her losing her temper again... she suggests counselling. Susan tells her she is going to drop out of Cambridge and she's going to study law and try and help kids who end up in care. Imogen says that while the John Tallentire case is closed, it could be reopened if necessary and she would probably go down for it, rather than David. Susan looks shocked and agrees reluctantly to go for counselling. She takes David to the drug clinic, and Imogen hopes she will find some purpose in leaving Cambridge and studying law. She herself has been seeing an older man lately, an elderly don who is ill and she nursed him. She had grown very fond of him, and then he dies, leaving her with another broken relationship. But she does her best to recover from her depression. She is glad that the mystery of Tallentire's death has finally been solved.