EPISODE 6: HE COULD’VE BEEN A CONTENDER UNTIL THEY CHOPPED HIS ARMS OFF
He and Harry attend a memorial for Freddy where Becca, the boxing gym manager, introduces Freddy’s ex-wife, her new husband, Freddy’s young fiancée and Freddy’s brother, an ex-soldier and former boxer, is coming out of retirement for a one-off fight organised by Freddy before his death in order to save the failing gym.
Harry and Fergus also meet Paddy ‘The Bag’ Duffin (the gym’s punch-drunk janitor/handyman/sparring partner). Harry needs to finds a way to snoop around and talk to the other boxers so she poses as a sports psychologist even though, as Fergus points out, she knows nothing about boxing or any other sport. Harry does know her literary greats however and plenty of them (Hemingway, Satre) boxed. After discovering a secret about Paddy, he confesses that he cut up and disposed of Freddy but he didn’t kill him. This leads Harry and Fergus to Paddy’s caravan where they find the murder weapon, which practically bears the killer’s signature. They confront Freddy’s murderer and reveal the whole tragic tale.
