When an eight year old girl goes missing. Twenty year old Billy Conrad is brought in as a suspect. He was the last person to be seen with her.
Billy though has Down's Syndrome and in his police interview. His social worker who is brought in as an Appropriate Adult is concerned by the bullying style of questioning.
Once Billy is charged, his elderly parents face abuse from the locals and are hounded out of the area.
As always Jack Frost looks a little bit deeper into the case.
The actor Timmy Lang who played Billy was very good. The episode highlights the plight of those with Down's Syndrome. The term mental is used several times both by locals and the police.
It seems Billy has a girlfriend but Frost is also told that getting involved in a relationship just causes problems for people like them. I think Frost flippantly replies that it is the same for normal people.
There is one big problem in the story. Even after being cautioned, the appropriate adult should had got Billy a lawyer. This aspect just seemed to have been overlooked by everyone.
I guess it was convenient for the narrative that no lawyer was involved but it was glaring to me when the poor lad was being hectored by the police during his interrogation.