In Chap­ter 64, Henk finds him­self at Rock­grove Vine­yard, a pic­turesque loca­tion where he has joined a tour group, despite the fact that he has nev­er been par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in Irish wine. He secret­ly prefers milk, a bev­er­age that often makes peo­ple uncom­fort­able, and his pres­ence among the wine enthu­si­asts adds an unusu­al dynam­ic to the group. As they walk through the lush vine­yard, Henk’s eyes fall upon a tree, which sparks a sud­den and mor­bid thought. This is the very tree where Mark Gooch was found dead, and with­out hes­i­ta­tion, Henk shares this gris­ly detail with the group. His blunt men­tion of the influencer’s mys­te­ri­ous death, includ­ing the dis­turb­ing fact that Gooch was found nailed to the tree, caus­es an uncom­fort­able silence and an eerie sense of hor­ror among the oth­er tourists. The tour guide, clear­ly caught off guard, hasti­ly attempts to steer the con­ver­sa­tion in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion by intro­duc­ing the Bac­chus grape, which has gained increas­ing atten­tion for its sig­nif­i­cance in Irish wine pro­duc­tion. The shift in con­ver­sa­tion does lit­tle to set­tle the uneasy atmos­phere, as the oth­er mem­bers of the group begin to pull away from Henk, uncom­fort­able with his open dis­cus­sion of such a dis­turb­ing sub­ject.

What the rest of the group does­n’t know is that Henk is not just a pecu­liar tourist, but a man with a hid­den agen­da. Tucked dis­creet­ly in his waist­band is a gun, an unset­tling detail that adds to the grow­ing sense of ten­sion sur­round­ing him. As he checks his phone, Henk notes that Amy Wheel­er will be arriv­ing in approx­i­mate­ly thir­ty min­utes. He begins to reflect on the poten­tial dis­cov­er­ies they might make dur­ing their inves­ti­ga­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly focus­ing on Mark Gooch’s mys­te­ri­ous arrival in a taxi, his miss­ing leather holdall, and the fact that a local police offi­cer was the one to dis­cov­er him. Henk is con­vinced that the real break­through in the case will occur when they share lunch, a moment he antic­i­pates will bring to light cru­cial infor­ma­tion about Jeff Nolan’s involve­ment in the events lead­ing up to Gooch’s death. With his thoughts lin­ger­ing on the unfold­ing inves­ti­ga­tion, Henk steps clos­er to the tree, inspect­ing the holes that have been care­ful­ly filled and paint­ed over. He’s pleased with the job done, as the con­ceal­ment of the holes seems to have been exe­cut­ed flaw­less­ly. In his usu­al blunt fash­ion, Henk proud­ly announces to the tour group that the holes have been filled with wood glue, offer­ing the obser­va­tion with­out any con­sid­er­a­tion for how uncom­fort­able it may make the oth­ers. His lack of social aware­ness only adds to the dis­com­fort, fur­ther dis­tanc­ing him from the rest of the group, who are now vis­i­bly uneasy in his pres­ence.

Despite his awk­ward­ness, Henk’s obser­va­tions con­tin­ue to reflect a sharp and method­i­cal approach to the inves­ti­ga­tion. His abil­i­ty to focus on seem­ing­ly minor details, such as the wood glue used to fill the holes in the tree, sug­gests that he might be onto some­thing that oth­ers have missed. The tourists, how­ev­er, are grow­ing increas­ing­ly uncom­fort­able with his behav­ior, and it’s clear that Henk’s fix­a­tion on the case is caus­ing a shift in the group’s dynam­ic. His com­ments, though insight­ful in their own right, are unset­tling to those around him, espe­cial­ly giv­en the grue­some nature of the case he’s dis­cussing. Yet, despite the social ten­sion he’s caus­ing, Henk remains deter­mined in his belief that the inves­ti­ga­tion will yield impor­tant rev­e­la­tions. He antic­i­pates that the lunch meet­ing with Amy will pro­vide them with the break­through they need, espe­cial­ly when dis­cussing Jeff Nolan’s role in Gooch’s death. The mount­ing sus­pi­cion sur­round­ing Nolan only fuels Henk’s obses­sion with uncov­er­ing the truth, and he is res­olute in his belief that their col­lec­tive efforts will even­tu­al­ly crack the case wide open.

The chap­ter takes on a more somber tone as the group’s inter­ac­tions grow more strained, and the focus shifts increas­ing­ly toward the inves­ti­ga­tion itself. Henk’s detailed exam­i­na­tion of the tree and his blunt rev­e­la­tions about the hid­den evi­dence sug­gest that he is, indeed, close to unrav­el­ing some­thing sig­nif­i­cant. His keen obser­va­tions, though social­ly inap­pro­pri­ate, indi­cate that he is on the right track, and the group’s grow­ing unease only high­lights the high stakes involved. With every pass­ing moment, it becomes clear that Henk’s con­nec­tion to the inves­ti­ga­tion is deep­en­ing, and the truth about Mark Gooch’s death may soon be exposed. The antic­i­pa­tion of the lunch meet­ing adds a lay­er of sus­pense, as the team pre­pares to piece togeth­er the scat­tered clues they have uncov­ered so far. As the tour pro­gress­es, the ten­sion between the tourists and Henk only inten­si­fies, set­ting the stage for the next phase of the inves­ti­ga­tion and mak­ing it clear that this case is far from resolved.