Jared tells Alison that Will is in Bishopthorpe

Jared Copeland tells Alison Glenny that Will Radley is in Bishopthorpe during a call that changes the status of the pursuit: Alison says they are now free to hunt Will down, and Jared confirms his location. The exchange also exposes the cost of Jared’s earlier efforts to make Will’s crimes public, while ending on a second, more guarded disclosure: Jared knows something about Will’s relationship with the Radleys.

The call and its history

The scene begins with a withheld number and Jared answering. Alison identifies herself by name, and her voice takes him back to their last conversation in her office. Then, she had warned that exposing the matter could put hundreds of lives at risk and threatened to have him dismissed and sectioned on grounds of mental health. Jared remembers the consequence: two months in a mental hospital, separated from his daughter, who had to live with his terminally ill, fractious mother. The call therefore arrives against a history of institutional pressure, not as a neutral update from an ally.

Alison’s earlier warning had invoked the greater good without acknowledging the irony Jared sees in it: his wife had died because the truth had not been made public. He also remembers being given powerful mood-leveling drugs by doctors whose government-endorsed bonuses were tied to keeping that greater good in mind. These memories make the new call’s offer of cooperation sharply different from their previous encounter, even as the imbalance between them remains: Alison speaks for the authorities, while Jared has been the one threatened with confinement.

Permission to pursue Will

Alison says she has found Jared without difficulty because he has not changed his name, and Jared replies that he has nothing to hide and did nothing wrong. She then offers what she calls good news about Will. After a pause, she tells him, “We’re free to hunt him down.” The permission follows pressure applied in the right places, she explains, and the Sheridan Society wants to be rid of Will because he has become too erratic.

Jared objects to that description by measuring it against the murder that matters to him: Will killed the wife of a CID officer on a university campus. His response rejects the suggestion that Will’s recent erratic behavior is the decisive new concern. The murder was already reason enough. Alison says she wants Jared to know that they will do everything in their power to catch Will, and promises that he will be able to move on with his life. Her appeal makes the proposed hunt both an official action against Will and an offer of personal release to Jared.

Jared reveals Will’s location

Alison asks whether Will is in Bishopthorpe and whether his presence explains Jared’s move there. Jared is reluctant to give her information. As he keeps walking, the pub recedes behind him until its sign is only a small brown square. The physical distance accompanies a decision he has not yet voiced: he remembers something Will said to him only moments earlier, that it would never happen. Against that expectation, Jared tells Alison, “he’s here.”

That answer is the scene’s decisive disclosure. Will’s whereabouts, previously known to Jared, are now available to the people who say they are prepared to hunt him. Alison’s promise may offer a route toward catching Will, but the call does not establish what the authorities will do or whether they will succeed. It records the moment Jared supplies the location, not the outcome of the pursuit.

A second piece of knowledge

Before ending the call, Alison asks whether Jared knows anything about Will’s relationship with the other Radleys that could be used. Jared thinks of what Will had told him in the pub: “It’s my brother’s wife.” He then answers, “Yes. There is something.” The remembered remark identifies a connection involving Will and his brother’s wife, but Jared does not explain that connection to Alison in this exchange. The distinction matters: he has disclosed Will’s location, yet only signals that he holds another potentially useful fact.

The conversation thus closes with cooperation still incomplete. Jared has given Alison what she asked for about Bishopthorpe and confirms that there is something more, while the precise information he might offer remains unstated here. The scene shifts Jared from the person previously silenced and threatened into a source of intelligence, but leaves the next disclosure—and its consequences—open.