Strike and Robin deduce Morehouse is actually a disabled physics professor at Cambridge and decide to interview him, but Morehouse is murdered before they reach him. The publicity causes Morehouse to discuss going to the agency with Paperwhite. Soon afterwards, a parcel bomb damages the office, although nobody is injured. In the game, Anomie confesses this crime to Oliver's brother. It is revealed that she saved Oliver Peach, a moderator of Drek's Game and member of the Halvening. After Robin helps save his life, her photograph appears in the newspapers. In the game, Paperwhite, another moderator, and Morehouse appear to have a relationship, with Paperwhite sending a racy picture to Morehouse and other moderators by accident.Īfter leaving Comic Con where Robin interviewed a suspect, they follow a suspicious individual, only for a man dressed as Batman to push him onto tracks as a train approaches. They also receive phone calls telling them to exhume Edie's grave and open letters buried with her. Robin and Strike attempt to eliminate suspects by carrying out surveillance and examining who is otherwise engaged while Anomie is active in the game.
Robin accesses the game and becomes an active player. Two moderators appear to be associated with The Halvening, the far-right group which compiled the dossier with fake proof and the police suspect committed the murder. They also investigate Drek's Game, where Anomie openly confesses to the murder, something treated as a joke by the other moderators, including its co-creator Morehouse. Much of the investigation takes place online with the detectives investigating Anomie's abuse and another figure, The Pen of Justice, who criticised the cartoon for being racist, ableist and transphobic. They investigate various individuals associated with the cartoon and the North Grove Art Collective. The agency is hired by a film producer seeking to adapt The Ink Black Heart to investigate Anomie's identity.
Soon afterwards, Edie and Josh are tasered and stabbed while meeting in Highgate Cemetery, the cartoon's setting. Within the game, two moderators appear to have a dossier of proof that Anomie and Edie are the same and share this with Josh Blay, the other co-creator of The Ink Black Heart and Edie's ex-boyfriend. Robin refers Edie to another agency with more cybercrime experience. Edie asks Robin to investigate the identity of Anomie, an online figure who created Drek's Game, an online game based on the cartoon, and started harassing Edie after she criticised the game. Rebuffed by this, Strike soon starts a relationship with Madeline, an acquaintance of his ex-fiancée Charlotte, a relationship he keeps secret from Robin.Įdie Ledwell, an animator who co-created the successful cartoon The Ink Black Heart on YouTube and which is now being adapted into a film on Netflix, visits the agency. After Strike and Robin visit the Ritz for Robin's 30th birthday, Strike attempts to kiss Robin, which she flinches away from, fearing Strike's sober dismissal of the kiss.
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