Everything seems to have an unnatural abundance about it. Straker to open up, but she doesn’t.Īt Doomwatch, they’ve analyzed the samples and it’s all a bit weird. “No, God is not so trivial as to use scientists to do his work.”
“No,” says the Vicar, “this is God’s Devine plan.” These people have enough problems already.īack at the pub, Shaw overhears Mrs Straker talking with the Vicar. She’s an outsider, and she needs not rock the boat to be able to function. While she seems disturbed at the news, she still won’t help. He is visibly shaken by the revelation of the dead girl. Meanwhile, Mrs Straker, with the landlady’s complicity, searches Shaw’s room to find out what he’s doing. He dismisses Shaw’s concerns as being a mistake. He reports it to the constable, who rushes to the scene, but the grave has been emptied and filed in. He digs into the ground to see what fascinated the dogs and finds the body of a dead girl, which he caresses rather disturbingly. When one runs away, Shaw tries to shoo off the other, but it attacks him savagely, but without injuring him at all. On his way back to the Bothy, he finds two dogs fighting over something. He agrees to stop unless he gets permission first. Murray tells him off for his rude behavior.
The next day, Shaw is playing shutterbug, taking pictures of all the locals without their permission, until Mrs. Straker, has her husband, who is obviously ill, locked in an upstairs room. Shaw sends his samples back to Doomwatch, then, over Quist’s objections, decides to stay a few more days on the island. A simple disagreement over who pays the tab turns violence, but the constable quickly rushes the aggressor out of the pub. Later, in the pub, he witnesses the locals interacting with each other. When he leaves his sample case behind to collect some gull eggs, he finds that his case has been disturbed, probably by his mysterious watcher. The next day, while collecting samples, he spies a local watching him from a distance, with a shotgun. She’s also not particularly warm to Shaw and, when he spies an odd procession of people outside forcing a man down the path against his will, she closes the drapes and passes it off as folks “just going for a walk.” There’s no room at the pub, or the rectory, but the local police constable directs him to the Bothy, which he finds a room for the night, and the attractive, also outsider, school teacher, Victoria Brown. Shaw arrives for an overnight collection mission and is met with the unfriendly locals, who don’t like outsiders.
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