Oh. I had actually forgotten how doomed this was until the last line and was happily reading along thinking how lovely it all was. Poor Peter, poor Bates :-(

Lovely story though, nice characeterisation of both of them and great Grodin voice, I like how self-confident he was.

Liked the fact that Bates wasn't feeling bad for losing Markham and Smith as for making Beckett go up in a jumper too, that seemed very appropriate for him. Sigh, poor Markham too.