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16. Clare de Lune

The team investigate mentally unstable Clare Metcalf's disappearance from a psychiatric hospital, and discover the key to the case may lie in her mother's death some years previously - which was officially ruled as suicide, but may actually have been murder.

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Clare Metcalf, recently admitted to a psychiatric hospital, escapes from the facility's supposedly safe 'time-out room'. There is speculation that the missing girl may have been the victim of an abusive staff member, but when evidence comes in from Clare's boyfriend and then her father, it seems that the truth may lie with a secret Clare has tried desperately to keep quiet since the death of her mother years earlier. When a witness calls in a definite sighting of the missing teenager, the team race against time to find her and stop her from hurting herself and others.

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