Alan Freeman was the father of murder victim Matthew Freeman, a.k.a. Crow, but he and his son had not been close for many years. Alan's family had, in fact, been devastated nineteen years earlier, when his first wife Elizabeth, Matthew's mother disappeared, and Matthew's chosen lifestyle, as a vampire, only served to reinforce the estrangement fro his family. When Alan married his second wife, he took her maiden name of Freeman. Alan's wife, Janice, and daughter, Rosie, are with him at the station when Beckett, sympathetically, looks for clues as to who would have wanted to hurt Matthew.