Will the real Ron please stand up? | Sea of Lies | Episode 2 – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.[Music] there was a knock there was a discovery and then suddenly there were two Ronald plats one dead in the Corner's freezer in Devon and the other walking around paying bills and Charming Neighbors in a small village in Essex the police had accidentally figured out that the man they had interviewed nearly 2 months ago who they knew as David Davis and who told them he was a close friend of Ronald plats was now possibly living as Ronald Platt so now a death which up until this point had been understood to most likely either be a boating accident or a suicide was a big question mark followed by an exclamation mark I guess it's at that point that you I guessed a bit more switched on to right okay we need to step this upper level for investigators the door knock Revelation had so thoroughly flipped everything on its head that the detectives like Bill McDonald were forced to Look Backwards at the work they'd already done to see if there was anything that jumped out under this new light a new lead a new person and you then recall that there's been a conversation in the past about the deceased having some ex partner McDonald and his colleague I clenahan had learned in the interview with Ron's Big Brother Brian that Ron Platt had an old girlfriend uh a woman called Elaine Elaine boys Elaine boy in suggesting Elaine boy I think he was hoping that she might be able to answer more of the questions that would help us and then it's right okay we need to find Elaine boys they learned that Elaine was living in herriet North Yorkshire the same town in which the Dead Man's Rolex had last been serviced so a plan was struck for clenahan to set up a meeting face to face the aim was to get as much information as we can about David Davis from from Elaine David Davis had told police that he'd known Ron for several years so they thought it likely that this Elaine and David Davis would know each other and therefore the police had to be careful because you know we didn't know what the relationship really was between elain and and David Davis you don't know what you're walking into were they still in contact were they whatever he was firmly under our suspicions but we just wanted to see what Elaine would tell us so Clan sat down with Elaine in a cafe up in herriet and very quickly he would come to learn that Elaine was more important to the story than he could have possibly imagined we track her Lane down and she tells us a fascinating and very interesting story Elaine was the key to everything um oh gosh this is the difficult bit to talk about to be honest I better be careful what I say on here better be careful I'm Sam Mullins and this is sea of lies from cbc's uncover episode 2 when Ron met Ron [Music] when Elaine was young she entered the workforce with a clear dream in her mind one day she hoped to become the executive assistant to someone important capital S capital i a line of work she was a natural for supremely organized competent and useful in the arena of business where big egos run a muck she was hardwired to please hardwired to deescalate and do whatever is asked of her because i' had a quite a difficult childhood remember my dad used to argue a lot and my dad used could be quite violent you do everything to appease and you avoid conflict and that's what I was like this compliant female that's very friendly and outgoing on the surface but underneath it she's not going to ask too many questions while lots of peers were pairing off and getting married in their early 20s Elaine didn't have the time or interest for a Rel relationship a stance which as we know from the First Act of any romance will not be sustainable well meeting R was interesting because it was a blind date I was introduced by two friends they kept ping me actually for about a week they kept saying we've got this chap we'd like you to meet this chap so they set up a double [Music] date it was January 1980 or 81 it was absolutely freezing and we met up in a pub Elaine walked into the dim warmth of the pub with her friends took off her coat and there he was oh gosh I would say he looked like a good-look cliff Richard Cliff Richard is good-looking but he he reminded me of Cliff Richard hold up reference is a little before my time Cliff Richard images search oh aaine his eyes again it's his eyes yeah yeah he's got brooding eyes he's got he's got depth Ron was older than her in his late 30s trim well put together and as Elaine picked up on quickly shy painfully shy but luckily Elaine is the perfect antidote to shyness I managed to get him to talk about photography and things that he's interested in and we hit it off quite well yeah a chatty few pints later the four of them stumbled out of the pub back into the cold when Ron perhaps with a little liquid courage in him took Elaine aside to shoot a shot when we left the the pub he said to me he said how do you fancy meeting and going to York tomorrow for the day and I thought oh that' be nice so we [Music] did on the day in York as they strolled through the quaint medieval cities Cathedral and cheese shops Elaine felt a profound comfort with Ron the man was a good egg I felt safe in his company ROM was very Placid very quiet he seemed very caring um and I felt safe with him I felt safe around him when they got back to Ron invited her to his flat they' spoken so much about photography he wanted to show her some of his stuff there was a portrait he' taken of a friend's cat he was especially proud of but there was something he was even more excited to show her he had this rack [Music] system one of his main passions was high-fi equipment it was a Pioneer rack system with these huge speakers I've never seen anything so big um and he was so proud to put it on and show me his high-fi equipment it looked like jewelry and he touched the what do you call them the knobs like there were jewelry um and the first track he put on was Paul Simon I am a rock I love this detail so much and after learning everything I have about Ronald Platt I'm convinced that this track selection was no accident this was Ron revealing himself it's all there in the lyrics this was him saying I'm a rock I'm an island Elaine this Fortress is steep and mighty I'm a heavy cat can you dig it and she could it was Heaven it was it came out the speakers the sound and it was like wow and that was it they became Ron and Elaine and to those who knew Elaine well this came out of nowhere she didn't have a boyriend and then suddenly she was really excited because she she'd met this this guy this is Chris Idol one of ela's best friends and then when I actually met him I think I was sort of a bit shocked because he he was so attractive not that Elaine wasn't but certainly from a a physical perspective he was a good catch she looked like she'd done a good job high five to Elaine they complimented each other in in a way because she was sort of really quite an extrovert and he was completely the opposite they just really seemed to be meant for each other at that time somehow they built a life together but even from the very beginning it was clear that there was something missing for Ron he loved Elaine very much but his heart was always somewhere else Canada with Ron it was always about Canada and who better to describe Ron's lifelong connection to Canada than his one surviving family member Jeff Platt he was my big brother my parents immigrated to Canada in 1955 where my dad was a teacher in various small towns Ron and Jeff's folks had been struggling to make ends meet in postwar England for years and were desperate for change because they were living in a converted bus in in Birmingham so when the opportunity to teach in Canada came up they leapt at it but the plats were cursed from the beginning a few days before their first Canadian Christmas their house burnt down nearly with Ron in it and they lost everything but instead of taking it as a sign that they made a horrible Mistake by coming here this incident would be recorded in the pliable young brain of Ron Platt as a foundational positive memory because of what happened next the neighboring Farmers rallied to help this new family of strangers they took the plat in gave them their coats and help them Salvage their first Christmas and survive their first real winter even though we were pretty isolated in small Canadian towns that's where his his romantic love for Canada came this was the Canada that Ron plat was never able to shake the Canada in his heart and tattooed on his hand the one that he would describe to Elaine but the plats remained a family constantly on the brink of financial ruin and existed in a perent state of limbo if you asked me where do you go to school I'd say name a year every year was a different School in a different town some years it was even a different country my mom didn't like Canada when she was there and didn't like England when she was here and we went several times Ron grew up bouncing between England and Canada with his folks and then when he became an adult he kept doing the same thing on his own he tried joining the Canadian Army but they wouldn't take him so he went all the way back to England to join the British army he worked in the signal Corps for many years as a radio technician where he learned he had a gift for understanding Electronics he was one of those people who wanted to know how things worked while Electronics made perfect sense to him there were many things in his life that didn't he struggled socially he couldn't seem to hold down a job or ever find a baseline of happiness in the moments that he'd examine his life like it was an electronic on his workbench he always seemed to arrive at the same diagnosis this isn't running properly there could be a missing part or more likely it must be in the wrong place I think he was a man who who very much was trying to find a place in the world and could never really find [Music] it so it was into this lifelong will they or won't they between Ron and my home nation that Elaine first entered Ron's life during the first decade that they were together he'd make plans for them to lay roots in Canada he'd fly there by himself and try and get established so that Elaine could join him but it would never work out he'd have Visa issues or couldn't land a job and have to return but he couldn't let the Canadian dream go as time went on he got depressed and I came to realize that he probably would never be happy until he went back to Canada because he would be constantly talking about [Music] it so if Elaine wanted a future with Ron she knew that eventually she was going to have to join Ron's Canadian dream so they made a long-term plan to finally get to Canada properly they were going to take their time work hard to save up as much money as they could and when the moment was right they'd go together and nothing made Ron happier to think about so this is Ron and Elaine in the year 1991 still very much in love with a Canadian plan but unbeknownst to them everything was about to change that year Elaine was 31 years old and working as a receptionist at a fine art auction years in herriet one day she was on the phone behind the desk in the showroom when in walked a man she'd never seen before A well-dressed man a man with whom she'd be linked for the rest of her life and Beyond in walked this gentleman and he inquired about well it was a painting that was in a display cabinet outside on the pavement there the piece that caught his eye was a pastoral Scottish scene by the artist Alfred de bransky and we had a chat about auctions and about Fine Art and that was really how I met him the man grinned extended his hand and said I'm David Davis he seemed like a gentleman well spoken polite he had a presence about him and he seemed very warm um he came across as American he said he was living in London he didn't like London he didn't like the smoke he didn't like the dirt that's actually what brought him up to herriet he said he was looking at real estate and trying to get a feel for the area but even for someone house shopping in an affluent Spa town he seemed like he had all the time in the world an hour of conversation passed in a blink when finally you said I'm thinking of setting up a business locally um and and I think You' be a great person to work for me sorry you want me art auction secretary to work for you just based on us chatting right now that was a bit bit of a shock really he said I like you he said I like your attitude I like your friendliness um he said I really could do with somebody like you working for me so Elaine was like what kind of business are we even talking about here first of all he said um we could set up an antique business selling Antiques and I said well to be perfectly honest I don't know anything about antiques so he said well what about a secretarial agency do you fancy running a secretarial agency I said no way that's the last thing I'd want to [Music] do so after a few more volleys from Elaine he's like well if not those then what elain I said if I was really honest and I wanted to set up a business I would set up doing photography because that's something I had considered Elaine had honed her photography skills with Ron over the past decade and even went back to college for a couple years to study so he said that is absolutely brilliant we could do that he said and what I could do is send you to Geneva and you could photograph The Fountains of Geneva he said because they've got the most amazing fountains he said we could do one of these coffee table books with all the fountains of Geneva he said that would be absolutely brilliant and it's here at Geneva Fountain coffee table book that Elaine says what anyone in their right mind would have said and I actually said you don't know me from Adam I said you don't know anything about me I could be the worst photographer in the UK for all you know and besides Ela knew that this whole exercise was moot anyway the other thing is saving up to go to live in Canada with my boyfriend because he's crazy about Canada and he wants to move to Canada so if I took a job for you I wouldn't be working for you for very long but instead of David Davis letting it go the Canada thing only seemed to make him more excited it would be great he said because you could save up I could pay you more than you're earning a year and you can then save up to go to Canada you get there quicker it was just like he wanted me he wanted to do a business that I would be happy doing you know if I have said let's do a sweet shop I bet you would have done [Music] that as bizarre and thrilling as this conversation had been Elaine had to get back to work but it was clear that Davis wasn't going to take no for an answer like he wouldn't leave unless I'd agreed to work for him it felt like that so I said look I said tell you what I'll give you my business card and let me have a think about it you go back to London you'll give yourself some time to think about it and the next time you up in arate looking for properties give me a call and and and we'll go from there so David Davis finally took his queue and then Elaine's business card which he wielded like a golden ticket as he backed away and he said you know this is a really truly serendipitous meeting he said said and he was so full of joy he bid her Ado and Elaine watched him stride away in disbelief Elaine wouldn't fully understand why David Davis seemed so thrilled to have found her that day until 5 years into her future he appeared in her life as an express lane that would deliver her and Ron to their Canadian dreams ahead of schedule the answer to her problems but in reality she was the answer to his when I look back for him that was a serenus meeting he saw gold when he walked in the [Music] office after work Elaine had to relay to Ron what had happened at the shop I didn't know what to think to be honest and I really thought it was just a bit of a a fantasy or a joke I thought this isn't really happening this isn't really true when she got home to Ron she launched into it I said you would not believe it this man's walked in has offered me a job doing virtually anything I want as the words left her mouth she could hear how it sounded an American stranger who thinks I'm special wants to start a business with me that's what it came across as um and and Ron said oh you want to be careful you don't know who anything about him you want to be really careful as they talked it through a bit more that night Elaine safely drifted all the way back to Earth of course she thought this was probably just an eccentric having a laugh yeah it was nothing he's gone back to London and and that'll probably be it a week went by then two and then to be honest I went back to work and I completely forgot about it but then a phone call out the blue and it was David Davis oh hi he says I'm I'm it's it's David Davis from London he said I'm coming up to hria on a week on Thursday how about we meet up and go for coffee so I said yeah that'll be fine so on the Thursday Elaine meets up with Davis in a cafe not really knowing what to expect he asked me about the job had I considered the job did I fancy working for him what did Ron think about it and um so we had conversations around that and he could tell that I was a bit hesitant um wasn't sure David Davis was self-aware enough that he could totally appreciate how his offer must look through the eyes of her significant other it made perfect sense for Ron to be skeptical how it must sound so Davis proposed a solution he said well I think really it would be a good idea if I met r on and then he could see and meet me and and then he he might feel more comfortable so the three of them went out to dinner and when he walked in Davis seemed genuinely thrilled to meet [Music] Ron it was amazing actually they just just clicked really they they hit it off together and it was the it was the North American accent and of course Ron actually I could see he was coming out speaking with a a soft North American accent and he was in his element they were sat there chatting like like buies if you were to glance at their table that night you might assume that the two were brothers they were the same height same build same hair color age even their dialects seemed to be winking to each other over the Mid-Atlantic somewhere once they'd made Fast Friends Davis turned the conversation to the business at hand he just turned to me and said how do you fancy working for me then so I looked at Ron and said what do you think Ron and Ron just Shrugged his shoulders and didn't really say anything classic Ron so I said well why not what have I got to lose why not okay so he said great it's great to have you on board so the three of them raised a glass and they had a deal and almost immediately to Elaine and Ron the door to a more exciting life seemed to swing open just before he went to get the train back to London he said how do you guys fancy in a few weeks time coming down to London and we'll put you up in a hotel for the weekend and he said you can meet my daughter Noel and we'll go out for dinner and we said oh wow that'd be great we went to um a restaurant called the Tha elephant in London and it was amazing The Deco was like you were in Thailand Elaine and Ron met up with David and his teenage daughter Noel the story was that Davis had been a high-powered Finance guy in New York and then later all over Europe but now he was all but retired and was in the midst of what sounded like a very messy divorce he had other children too but Noel chose to live with her dad instead of with her mom and siblings back in the US to Ron and Elaine it was pretty easy to see why a kid would choose him he seemed like a good dad and she a sweet kid she had his features she was a very polite young lady very attractive young lady didn't say a lot really didn't say a lot she was sort of a bit in a of her dad her dad did all the talking to be honest she was deferential to her dad but so were Ron and Elaine there was no mistaking the dynamic he was The Man In Charge he he took over he got the menu and he chose he said what we'll do is we'll have the set menu for four Ron hadn't had anyone treat him to a fancy dinner like this because he was a TV repair man but it's important to remember he was a TV repair man with a Rolex there ticking on his wrist powered by the unprivileged movements of his life was his Rolex a real one that he bought with his own money his most prized possession he'd wear it in the shower even when he'd POS for pictures like a model who believes they have one good side the Rolex side was the one he wanted people and the camera to see in Ron's life he wouldn't have many moments where he got to experience the Finer Things the luxuries but then in walked David Davis refined classy a man who from where Ron was sitting must have appeared to be the Rolex of people and it was easy to tell that Davis liked Ron too and more than that Davis was starting to see potential in [Music] Ron back in Harriet after the Whirlwind weekend in London Ron went back to his job and Elaine had to return to hers at the art Auctioneer she'd given her notice but was on the hook for a few more weeks the days dragged for Elaine as the movie of her future jet setting and photography played on a loop in her mind she and Davis still needed to iron out some of the details of the work itself and he encouraged her to name her own salary which wasn't something Elaine was comfortable with so she called her old friend Chris for some guidance said oh just double you're earning now because she was thinking it was somebody really wealthy and she was really excited at at the thought of this but something about the job elen was describing wasn't adding up it didn't seem to be much of a job it what it was sort of well what what you actually doing and it made me really suspicious of him I thought he was either on the Run involved in some sort of Witness Protection Program or with the CIA or something he may on the other hand have just been some harmless eccentric who didn't know what to do with his money very mind I read a lot of crime novels but but I I will definitely have said Elaine what is it and and she she was just sort of inor of him really Elaine named her salary Davis accepted she worked her final shift at the auctioneer and finally it was time to start her work with David Davis and in our interview with Elaine when we got to this part and asked her about her work with Davis over 30 years later you can hear it's still too hot to touch oh gosh oh oh is really it's a difficult one this one because I've got to talk about how what he did really how he approached it let me put myself back there so here's what happened for the first trip for David Davis the plan was go to Geneva and then on the way back swing by France to meet with a real estate agent who was going to show her some properties that David Davis was interested in buying photographs of The Fountains of Geneva and photograph the properties that was the initial job and then what happened was at the first time going he said he would meet me at King's cross Davis said I'll meet you there we'll go for lunch and then I'll take you out to the Hotel by the airport so that you can fly for Switzerland in the morning so when we gets to the airport hotel he signs in he pays for the room and then this is the difficult bit to talk about to be honest he then says I thought it would be a good idea if we had dinner at the hotel so we have a nice dinner at the hotel at the airport hotel and then he goes to his extion he pays for the bill and and I'm thinking that any moment now he's going to say goodbye and he's going to go away um and he he's struggling to part and then he says um he says is it okay to have a look at your [Music] room and I sort of thought what to myself and he says yeah he saids I just I'm curious to have a look at your room and I'm thinking well I can't I can't say no can I as they walk toward the elevator and get in Elaine feels the feeling that has been quietly present with her from the moment she first met Davis a small niggling part of her that she'd been brushing to the side I don't know to say this but there was a sense of fear on the surface everything had been so warm and pleasant and exciting there was nothing he said that made elain afraid of him there was nothing that he did to make her fear him but there was something she couldn't explain the subtlest of feelings like an ancient whisper from the animal part of her that said you're not safe before she showed up this day in London she almost acted on this feeling I did consider contacting the local police in Harriet and asking if there was any way they could do like a background check on him um and and then I thought to myself they won't be able to do that that doesn't people don't do that and also I did think to myself that if I asked the police to do a background check on him to to sus out who he was who was David Davis that he might find that out and if he found out that I was suspicious of him in any shape or form I just had a feeling that that wasn't a good thing that wouldn't have been a good thing would it it wouldn't certainly wouldn't have been a good thing that they walked down the hallway toward elain's door her mind cataloging every possible meaning of the phrase can I look at your room you can't really be looking at Rooms he said he travels here and travels there so why on Earth would he want to look at a room Elaine opens the door and Davis slides past her in the doorway he does a half-hearted LAP of the unremarkable room and then saunters over to the bed and he sits on the edge of the bed nearest the window and I'm near the door and there he is the man who's offered Elaine so many things leaning on the bed of the hotel room he just bought for her and then he sits on the bed and says well I really hope you have a good time in Geneva and and I hope you you you look at this as a bit of a a bit of AOL for you as well yeah sure totally and um he said but while you're there could you do me a favor and I and I said what what do you mean he says well and he reaches into his jacket pocket and he pulls out an envelope with some Swiss Franks in it Swiss Franks well pulls it out and it says I've got Swiss Franks he said would you change this money for me into Sterling it appeared to be a formidable stack a serious amount of cash and I looked puzzled and a bit shocked and I said oh I don't know David is I don't think this is this is legal he smiled his warm smile he says in Geneva there's Bureau to changes everywhere people are doing this all the time in Geneva changing money that's what goes on that's what's Geneva is about he said this is my money and all I'm asking you to do is change my money from Swiss Franks into Sterling so I reluctantly said okay I to get rid of him basically out of the room um but I was very very perturbed about it once the door clicked behind him Elaine went straight for the phone as soon as he gone I phoned Ron I said phone me straight back won't you cuz it was going to cost obviously hotel telephone bills so I said phone me straight back and I and I explained what had happened but Ron was already the head of the David Davis appreciation society and he put me at teas he said look he knows what he's doing he's a businessman he's obviously done this before you know and just I said oh okay then so that's that's how it all that's how that started really it had started Elaine didn't know it but the photography looking at the real estate even the changing of currency were not what David Davis was really after with Elaine and Ron um but of course I never realized that he had a secret agenda did have an agenda didn't he yeah elain had a bad feeling she didn't know if she trusted David Davis she didn't know if this job was real but whatever she felt didn't matter because she'd made a series of decisions that led her here to this plane seat with tens of thousands of Swiss Franks in a bag beside her in her work and relationship with David Davis the rubber was about to meet the Switzerland this would be the first of many trips Elaine would take where she didn't comprehend what she was really doing it was all very strange to be perfectly honest there were other trips with other currencies and different deposits into different bank accounts picture Elaine with her camera in one hand and Davis's thousands in the other breezing through airports the work felt vague the dollar amounts she was exchanging felt gargantuan Elaine found herself wondering if this was all an audition of some sort one time he he put extra money in the envelope for me to change so I thought what's going on here so he was testing me he was testing my honesty Elaine felt that he was testing her in Darker ways too for example he once told me that he'd been in New York I don't know what it was but he said he he'd witnessed somebody being crushed to death and I thought what a bizarre thing to tell me and it was just something it he was discussing over lunch and I thought is this something he's read in a book or is this something he's actually telling me and to me I think it was instilling a sense of unconscious fear that's what it felt like CU it's like I would normally you would say well what do you mean David what what what do you mean you saw somebody crushed to death but something said don't don't go there don't ask so I just didn't ask while his Antics felt odd sometimes foraine all that mattered was that her paychecks were clearing and that her and Ron's dream of having enough money to get to Canada felt closer than ever one day Davis told Elaine to meet up with him for lunch in herriet he said he had something important to ask her it was then that he told us that he'd bought a business off the shelf sometimes instead of incorporating your own business you can just purchase a good as new existing Corporation Davis explained he said he was the happy new owner of an entity called the Cavendish Corporation and it was then that he told me that he wanted Ron and I to be directors elain was taken AB director DT s of a corporation her and Ron I thought well why why isn't he being a director um he said I want you and Ron to be directors because I don't want my name on any of the paperwork because my wife is after me as he laid it all out Davis seemed genuinely distressed by the situation with his wife he said I'm concerned because I think she's hired a private detective um because she's after me for alamy she was going to take him for everything and thus he needed Elaine and Ron's help if he sensed that I was maybe perturbed he was able to deflect that and and put the positive aspect on it you would be there in title only it wouldn't be more work you wouldn't be exposed to any liabilities you would just be doing me a favor for which I would be very appreciative it was so convincing it was so plausible when he when he explains stuff it's sort of oh yeah that makes sense even though nagging in your back of your mind might be thinking oh he was just so clever at being able to to put you at ease after this surprising ask Ron and Elaine talked it through and thought we could do that and they were named directors of the Cavendish Corporation a corporation that did what exactly it didn't really say it never really it never really got discussed and was developed and from the moment that Elaine and Ron agreed to be directors a current slowly started to pull them deeper Davis took aane to open a corporate bank account and with the account Cavendish was now a real thing as far as Elaine could tell the corporation existed so that it could have a bank account and the bank account existed so that he could acquire assets assets that would happen to further entangle David DAV with Ron and elain it started with the apartment he encouraged Ron and I to purchase an apartment in harriette Davis was like what are you guys renting for that's dead money you should buy and then in a year or two sell it for a profit and that will help you get to Canada so we ended up buying an apartment oh dear it's complicated really is complicated so what happened was I couldn't get a mortgage cuz I didn't earn enough money to pay for the mortgage on the apartment he said don't worry about that he said Cavendish will pay the other half and you can pay me with your wages so he was actually getting his own money back so Elaine and Ron moved into their new place that they co-owned with a corporation that they still couldn't confidently describe the purpose of when Davis had another Bright Idea come believe I'm saying all this to be honest one day Davis calls Elaine excitedly and says Elaine come downstairs I'm outside in a taxi he said I've got something to show you and we drive to an area in Harriet pull up outside on this street and there's this business that's empty and he says what do you think and I said what do you mean what do you think he says well wouldn't it be suitable for Ron to set up a TV repair business Elaine and Ron were dragged deeper still oh I don't know I don't think he'll I don't think he'd want to do that he wants to go to Canada he said yeah but if you if you set up a business you'd make some money to go to Canada and I said yeah but you it takes time to build up a business then he explained it to Ron and Ron wasn't Keen at all but he managed to persuade him to do it and this is how Ron and elain came to be directors of Davis's Corporation co-owners of an apartment with Davis and Proprietors of a TV repair business I think it all happened within a year so as they reached December of 1992 they were completely committed to the Davis relationship and with the business and flat Canada seemed to be nudged into the future further than they'd originally planned it was obvious that Davis wanted to keep them around which is why what happened next was so shocking [Music] at the end of a whirlwind year Elaine and Ron became close enough with Davis and his daughter Noel that the four of them got together for Christmas they gave Noel a hug and as the house steeped in the smells of turkey in the oven the four of them sat down in the lounge we' exchange a Christmas present to each other and then he gives us a card he gives me the card and I open the card and in it is this Christmas card that says um to Ron and Elaine I will purchase pay for two flights to Canada if you go by the end of February if you go to Canada by the end of February when I read it I'm actually quite shocked because I think wait a minute this is 25th of December and he's talking about us going to Canada by the end of February for Elaine this wasn't a thrilling development the whole idea was that they were going to save up enough of a nest egg to make the international move as smooth as possible and after a year of Davis pulling them closer and closer in Embrace this felt like a sudden shove out the door how on Earth are we going to wind down a business sell an apartment and and it's all so quick it's weeks isn't it what is with the haste so I was initially just shocked and run just beamed from here to ear finally I'm going to Canada he was happy as Larry but I underneath it was camouflaging that because I didn't want to spoil Christmas [Music] day as Elaine sat try not to be a Christmas bummer she kept thinking the end of February felt so quick and oddly specific why was the date imposed by him Merry Christmas you need to leave all you've ever known in the next 60 days why why I find myself thinking of scene though often about the four of them sitting around that table for Christmas dinner these four souls whose lives would be completely blown up in the next few years there's Ron feeling elated Davis pleased elain pushing her food around her plate trying to mask her panic and Noel Noel is the one I wonder about the most how did she feel as she sat there knowing why they needed Ron and Elaine gone they were Bound for Canada they were Bound for ruin coming up on sea of Lies Ron said to me on the phone he said I'm coming back to England and he said Mr Davies is is is offered to meet me at the airport and I had a horrible dark feeling when people commit a crime they will always make a mistake nobody commits the perfect crime and I I firmly believe that cuz everyone will make a mistake sometimes you got to trust you got Instinct and my got Instinct said he was involved what in what shape or form I didn't know obviously I wouldn't know but he was involved and he was covering it up and I have to say I don't like people getting away with things sea of Lies is produced by what's the story sounds for CBC it's hosted and written by me Sam Mullins and produced and reported by Alex gonb mixing and sound design is by 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