Six months after arriving from the UK, the island's TV station SMBC's investigative reporter Melanie Sharpe is strangled and dumped in her home pool. Runner Benny Morgan heard a struggle and saw something leave before he arrived. A loose button convinces Neville it must have been new anchor Garfield Tourné, but he was on air interviewing his daughter Hélène at the time of the murder. Editor Henri Pigal admits Garfield refused to air the revelations Melanie prepared, for one about political candidate Elmina Blondeau's broken environmental promises. Garfield also has a terrible record molesting, dumping and buying off female staff. Neville's allergies-suffering even leads to an aroma candle torching the beach house, and most personal possessions, so he must move in a while with just-returned Florence. Commissioner Selwyn drives fresh sergeant J.P. to despair by 'standing in' for Ruby as useless 'assistant'. Neville finds the 'time machine' to crack he case.
—KGF Vissers