Rose finally had to give in a few days later when she was told a nice caravan had been booked in her name, right on the harbour but the morning she was setting off, the town of Broadchurch was in chaos. Conflicting reports were on the news and she didn't think she should set off.

"It could be nothing," Jackie was trying to tell her over breakfast. "If everyone got put off by the news, no-one would be going anywhere."

"Your mother's right," Pete agreed as he parted his newspaper.

"Fine, I'm going but I'm not sitting in traffic, I'll see if there's another way," Rose replied, ruffling Tony's hair and making him laugh.

They had just waved her off when one of the staff, whom Pete had asked to keep listening to the news came out to him.

"We should call her back Jackie," Pete told her. "A young boy's been found on the beach there."

"That's awful Pete," Jackie clasped her hands over her mouth.

"The police will be all over the place now, they don't need Rose in the town once it's discovered she's there," Pete reminded her.

"She'll keep out of the way Pete. It doesn't mean that bloke's there yet," Jackie replied as Tony's nanny arrived to take him to school for the last day.

Rose had already heard the news and was deciding what to do. Maybe in some small way, she could help? It may take her mind off John for a while but she doubted they would let her get involved unless she was confident enough to march into the police station, show her Torchwood ID and offer their services.

She wasn't feeling that confident yet so that idea was out. She decided to carry on and if the place was crawling with reporters, she'd hide in the caravan site and hope she didn't get spotted.

Alec Hardy was having the second worst day of his career, the last one being two girls going missing one Sunday morning last April, leading to his divorce and failing to keep the killer behind bars. He'd already had his first argument with his new DS and now, the boy's name had been released without his say-so and he was chewing Ellie Miller out.

"Sit down Miller," he told her as he shouted for her to join him.

"If it's about Olly, I'll read him the riot act," she complained. "I can't keep him on a leash – Sir."

"This investigation is hardly started Miller and now, how are we going to explain this to the Latimer family?" he wanted to know.

"I'll go see them and apologise," Ellie offered.

"I think it's too late for that," Alec replied as his desk phone rang.

It was the chief, as he expected.

"Alec, I've just had Beth Latimer on at me," she told him. "What's going on, why was her son's name released on social media?"

"The local reporter got hold of it," Alec replied, looking at Ellie. "DS Miller is going to try to smooth things over with the family."

"Was it her nephew?" Elaine Jenkinson wanted to know.

"You know him then?" Alec replied dryly.

He'd already had enough and it was only just approaching noon.

"Well see it's taken care of," he was ordered. "Anything else I should know about?"

He was tempted to admit there was something wrong with him and have done with it but he couldn't quit right away, that wasn't his style. Ellie left to go see her friends and Alec sat back in his chair. Why was this happening to him again? All he'd wanted was some peace and quiet after leaving Sandbrook.

He wasn't working at full capacity and he knew it so he called his friend back in the town he'd just left.

"Aye, I can come down if it's urgent Alec," his friend told him. "Want some more of those pills?"

"Not yet, you heard what happened this morning?" Alec asked.

"Aye, trust you to walk into it Alec," Alistair laughed. "You should have maybe stayed here and sent Tess to where you are."

"And have to put up with the Gillespies? No thanks," Alec replied. "That was partly why I left."

"Well tell me all about it tonight, say nine?" Alistair asked him.

"Down on the harbour then, I saw a shelter on the pier when I was down there earlier," Alec suggested.

"Trust you to be suspicious someone will see us," his friend laughed. "Now if you were to meet a young blonde woman there, that may get tongues wagging."

"Fine chance there is of that, in this town," Alec replied.

"I don't suppose there's any point in telling you to take it easy?" Alistair asked hopefully.

When he got no reply, he knew the answer already.

Rose had almost reached her destination and had found an alternate route when traffic was piling up on the A35, the last part of her journey. She had just passed Dorchester and was approaching a roundabout when her sat-nav advised her to turn left, Rose hating that phrase for some reason every time the 'spooky' voice told her to do so.

She hoped she wasn't being led down the road just to join the queue of traffic further down but instead drove along the coast road and into a village, then turned left again and followed the road and was surprised it led her to the harbour in Broadchurch itself. A police officer was stopping anyone going into a car park as she went around a mini roundabout and she followed the road around the harbour, reaching the caravan park on turning at the next mini roundabout. She was a bit early for booking in so she parked up and wandered into the main building and into the bar, hoping to get something to eat.

"So, what's going on?" Rose asked the young woman behind the bar as her coffee was being made.

"Some poor boy found on the beach," she told Rose. "They said a name but I don't want to believe it until it's official."

"Don't really blame you," Rose smiled, paying for the coffee and some food she'd ordered.

"Well whoever it is, there's a new detective in town, so they'd better find out who's responsible," the young woman who had a name badge on saying 'Kate' and the park's name replied.

So, whoever she was meant to find there had already arrived maybe, Rose wondered. Pete had been a bit mysterious when he'd persuaded her to travel all that way on her own and could only surmise he'd read about the place and meant for her to figure things out. To her, that meant he'd picked someone to take her mind off John.

Well it wasn't going to work, she decided as her food arrived. Just how had Pete known a new detective was going to arrive, unless he'd arranged it with one of the police chiefs he played golf with. There were no coincidences where Pete Tyler was concerned and she bet anything her mother had nagged him into doing something.

She was determined she wasn't going to fall into the trap set for her, she would keep well away from the police and this new detective in town but the said detective already had his hands full by the sound of it. She went to book in, found her caravan and after unpacking, wandered through the rows of caravans and found the store, getting what she needed for the day and seeing a takeaway opposite and thought it would come in handy.

She had already gone past a row of catering stalls so she wouldn't have to do much cooking if she didn't feel like it.

Olly Stevens was still annoyed he'd been warned by his aunt that the new detective already had it in for him, what did the man expect from a reporter who was only doing his job? Then, he'd been about to cross the road when he could have sworn he recognised the driver of a blue car just gone past him, who had turned into the caravan park.

What was Rose Tyler doing here, he wondered, scratching his head and not daring to follow. Maggie, his editor would keep her promise of promoting him if he got the exclusive with the Vitex heiress, who had been extremely quiet for months and no-one knew what was going on.

All he had heard was her boyfriend was very ill and she was looking after him but no-one knew anything else. Well, what if he, Olly Stevens were to find out why she was here? Maybe he would contact Pete Tyler's press office for comments, he knew better than go after her directly until he got the all-clear from Maggie.

That hadn't stopped him reporting on the spur of the moment it had been young Danny Latimer who had been found on the beach early that morning though.

"Yeah Mum, it's nice down here," Rose was assuring her worried mother when she got back. "Will ya ask Pete not to let on where I am, if the press office gets asked?"

"Of course they'll keep it quiet Rose," Jackie tried to assure her. "Just keep a low profile, blend in with the holidaymakers."

"What holidaymakers?" Rose laughed. "I bet I could upgrade my caravan and not get charged for it."

"Didn't ya get a nice one then?" Jackie asked.

"It's nice enough Mum, I was only sayin'" Rose laughed. "I think I know why dad insisted I came here though."

"Don't know what ya mean," Jackie tried to deny.

"I know ya both mean well Mum but sending me here to meet someone's not gonna help me get over John," Rose replied. "The Doctor was hinting about it as well, before he left."

"Well he was only thinking about ya," her mother reminded her. "We were worried that ya'd want to go back with him."

Rose had thought about it but Pete was right. The Doctor could change and she'd have no way of getting back. Whoever he changed into may not want her tagging along any more.

"Well it's done with now, I lost my only chance and I missed making a life with John. If the Doctor meant for me to find someone else or not, I'm not sure I can let John go just like that."

"You will Rose. You just have to give it time sweetheart. You have to want it," her mother tried to encourage her. "Maybe after a few days of fresh air ya might feel different?"

Rose just hoped her mother was right. She decided to go for a walk later on and wandered along the stone pier just opposite and seeing police officers walking up and down the steps, surmised that was where the police station was. Should she at least advise them she was in town? Before John had come along, Pete had wanted her to let the local police know if she was going to be anywhere for more than a day, like if she was attending a meeting or something else he'd talked her into going to on his behalf.

Alec had still been annoyed with his new DS but had to put up with her as she drove him around. They were just returning to the station, Ellie dropping him outside so she could get straight off home to get changed before the official media briefing.

"I will get a ride to the hotel and meet you at the school hall," Alec was telling Ellie, looking around as he got out, wishing he wasn't so near the water everywhere he was likely to go.

"I have to talk to Tom, he'll be upset. He knows something's wrong, my husband said everyone in Tom's class would have noticed Danny was missing today," Ellie told him.

"This is going to rip the town apart," Alec replied. "How well did your son know him?"

Ellie could have sworn she'd told the annoying new detective when they'd been on the beach earlier.

"They were best friends," she reminded him, wishing she didn't have to go to the briefing. "Who's that sitting at the end of the pier on their own?" she glanced past him, shading her eyes against the now setting sun.

"Don't you get visitors here who sit by themselves on a pier?" Alec asked sarcastically.

Ellie was getting more annoyed with him being snappy by the minute.

"Visitors are usually in family groups or with another person, not on their own," Ellie replied, wanting to drive off and leave him to figure it out. "We don't have time – Sir," she reminded him.

"You mentioned it Miller," he told her, stepping away from the car and still trying to see who the distant figure was.

Why was he so bothered, he wondered as Ellie drove off. He still had a bit of time so he crossed the road and started walking towards whoever was still sitting there. Rose was thinking about the times she'd been on the beach in Norway, especially the last time as she'd never expected to be going there again one more time, let alone twice.

The first time she'd been there, she was hoping for more than a hologram of the man she had loved and the second had given her another chance but it had been short-lived and John had got gradually worse, never really giving them any time alone. They had spent more time at Torchwood than anywhere else.

Then she was suddenly aware someone was walking along the pier and she put her shoulder bag around her neck and was about to stand up but stayed where she was when the man approaching her could have been John or the Doctor.

As Alec had got closer, knowing he should be going to get changed rather than satisfy his curiosity and was cursing Miller for even mentioning someone sitting on their own, he realised who it was. What was Rose Tyler doing here, he asked himself as she stood up.

"Rose Tyler?" he asked warily, in case she had a double or he was seeing things, probably the latter after the day he'd just had and it wasn't over yet.

"Yeah, you got me," Rose replied, thinking this wasn't happening to her and it was a cruel joke being played on her. "So who are you then?"

"Ah, no need to be alarmed," he tried to assure her, holding one hand up and reaching into his inside jacket pocket to get his new ID card out.

Rose was wishing he wouldn't do that and half expected him to bring out either a sonic screwdriver or psychic paper.

"Alec Hardy, Wessex police. May I ask what you are doing here, in Broadchurch? May I call you Rose?"

Rose sat down again, this had Pete Tyler written all over it. It was her stepfather's way of saying he didn't trust her to be here on her own after she had refused to let Jake go with her. It also explained why he and her mother were eager to ship her off to get over John but this wasn't helping at all.

"Yeah, why not?" Rose replied, fiddling with the zip on her shoulder bag. "Did my stepfather send ya?"

She had never expected this, Pete could have warned her properly but would she have still come down here with John's twin being the detective she'd heard was dealing with the death of a young boy that she'd heard about when putting the radio on in the caravan? Had Pete even known who the new detective resembled?

If the Doctor had mentioned to Pete about her finding someone, did it have to be his other twin?

"It will be getting dark soon," Alec hinted, looking towards the setting sun. "Where are you staying?"

He supposed if she was in the same hotel as he was, he could at least offer her a ride there. He then tried not to look disappointed as she pointed across to the caravan park.

"I thought I'd get more privacy," Rose tried to smile.

"I don't blame you then," he told her instead of saying it was a pity she wasn't staying at The Traders Hotel. "I now wish the personnel department had not put me up in the town."

"Well I expect they'll be loads of cancellations for caravans," Rose replied.

"Yes, it probably never occurred to them it would cost far less than a hotel," Alec admitted. "You will have to excuse me, I have a press conference to attend soon but you probably already know what happened here earlier?"

"Yeah, it's really sad, Alec. I've got a younger brother, glad I left him at home. I'll let ya get to your conference, will it be on TV?"

"I expect the news has already been spread?" Alec replied. "Did you not hear about it before you set off?" he wondered.

"Well no, only the traffic news, I was already on my way when the news broke that something was going on but I only found out what it was when I got here," Rose explained as they began to walk back along the pier. "Well, now ya know I'm here, Alec, I trust ya won't let the press get hold of it?"

"I will do my best but the local reporter already broke the news by naming the victim before it was officially released," he warned her as they reached the road and he got his phone out, calling the front desk. "This is Hardy, have a car meet me outside the station right away," he told the harassed desk sergeant.

He thought he just had time to freshen up and make the press conference before it started without him. Well Miller would just have to start it, she'd been sulking all day that he'd taken the job she was supposed to be getting. Rose had sat on the end of the wall while he'd been talking but she didn't know why she was waiting. He would maybe have thought she was being rude if she'd just walked off.

Alec ended the call and realised Rose was still there, for some strange reason.

"Well I guess I'll be watching ya on TV then?" Rose smiled at him, having to accept unless she went home, she would have to believe that maybe Pete hadn't known who exactly she was supposed to meet and that it had to be when she'd just arrived.

There again, he probably had known and had conspired with her mother. Alec was looking at her.

"Rose, be careful of the press," he warned her as a marked police car pulled into the lay-by. "I really have to get going now, we will probably meet again?"

"Yeah? I'm on the first roadway, number nine, if ya really wanna know?" she admitted.

Why had she just said that, she asked herself.

"I got put up at The Traders, on the High Street," he pulled a face and reminded Rose it was something the Doctor used to do quite often.

That was all she needed, Alec Hardy was reminding her more of him than John had done but there again, John had never really had the chance to copy his twin. She should be upset but for some reason she wasn't.

"Nice to have met ya, Alec," she called after him as he got in the back of the squad car.

Alec somehow managed to get through the press conference, that was until someone called him out on his last case and everyone in the hall was agreeing with the man.

"Sandbrook has no bearing on this case," Alec tried to be heard.

"No?" another man with grey curly hair shouted out. "When's the beach going to be re-opened then? Is it gonna be as long as your last case went on?"

"We are only in the very early stages of the investigation," Alec replied, determined not to be bothered by a few hecklers who seemed to be everywhere.

What was Rose Tyler going to think, he wondered. Had she heard about his last big case and how he'd failed to get the conviction to stick? No, he couldn't allow himself to distracted by her, not this time, after his ex wife had betrayed him during the Sandbrook investigation. Was he going to have any choice in it though? Why had she been so quiet recently, after it was in the news that her boyfriend was ill, then nothing more?

Rose was already feeling sorry for him and decided she would look up his last case. She'd had so much going on with John, everything else had been put to one side. The conference ended so she connected her phone to the internet and searched for Sandbrook. She found an article from a certain reporter who seemed to have it in for poor Alec.

She wondered if the same reporter would follow him here? If so, she would have to stay out of the way or stick her neck out for him and at present she didn't know which. Alec was leaving the school, looking around for a police car to give him a ride back to the hotel but as he got in one, he told them to drop him on the corner by the police station.

He tried to convince himself he just wanted something to eat but at the back of his mind, he was trying to remember what number caravan Rose had told him. Why did he want food anyway when the takeaway only sold fish and chips and at present he couldn't really eat them without suffering and he still had to go meet his friend.

He was just setting off when his friend called to ask where he was.

"I'm on my way, I had a press conference," Alec told his waiting friend, whom he could just make out in the shelter across the harbour.

"Ya could've left this until tomorrow night Alec," Alistair greeted him. "I looked at all those results, it's not looking good."

"You doctors always say that," Alec replied.

"Well ya need someone to look after ya Alec," his friend laughed. "It's time ya moved on and forgot about Tess."

"I'm fine, I don't need anyone, especially after Tess," Alec insisted. "I don't know if I can trust anyone again."

"Ya say that now Alec but if ya were to meet someone?" his friend hinted. "Ya never know. Anyway, I brought ya that prescription, make sure ya get it filled will ya? I'll keep the records up to date and I've transferred you to Exeter university hospital or I can send ya some place else if ya want? Make sure to take notice."

His friend went off and Alec put the piece of paper in his jacket pocket. He looked across at the caravan park, seeing all the lights on and wondered if he could find the one Rose was in. If she didn't answer, he could always walk back to the road and call a cab but as he entered the park, he easily found hers, one single light on and debated if he should knock on the door or if she would ignore it, since it was getting late.

Rose jumped when she heard knocking on the door, wondering if a neighbour was complaining the TV was too loud but she didn't consider it to be. Then she wondered if Alec Hardy had remembered where she said she was staying? She got up and looked through the window at the side of the door.

Alec saw the curtain move and gave a little wave so Rose opened the door slightly.

"It's late," she reminded him.

"I was just passing but I can come back another time," he apologised.

"Well, ya here now, come in Alec," she replied, moving aside. "What are ya doing out at this time?"

Alec wondered the same as she indicated for him to take his coat off and to sit opposite as she switched the TV off.

"I don't know Rose, why am I out at this time?" he asked her as she sat opposite and tucked her legs under her. "I was on my way back to my hotel but something made me see if you were still up and I have no idea why."