'Ridley' Deals with Jazzy Heartbreak in "Swansong"

Ridley starts at the jazz club again, but this time it's not Adrian Dunbar showing off his golden tones. Instead, it's Eve Marbury (two-time Olivier Award winner for musicals Carousel and My Fair Lady Joanna Riding) who kicks off this week's story by having a brother, Luke, who hasn't written to her in over a year, but whom she hasn't been able to track down for four decades. You would think since he's avoided her for nearly a half-century, she'd take the hint, but I guess not. Perhaps it's all that time she spent in America that hasn't affected her accent in the slightest? Anyway, she's only in town until the funeral of local musician Julian Varnham, so Ridley has a week to solve the case.

Eve: I didn't want it to be over.

Ridley heads to Carol's to get file access, interrupting the awkward sperm donor interviews Geri scheduled. The current one, Seb (Gareth George), seems to have signed up for the express purpose of telling women desperate for his juices that birthing babies this close to the environmental apocalypse is morally wrong. Carol happily leaves to help Ridley get Luke Marbury's files, records from his juvenile delinquent years, including Ray's Sound Place, where he used to steal from. But there's no missing persons report. Darren agrees to look through the old paper files to see if they failed to get scanned into the database.