But while the actor is stepping back into another compelling policing role, his new drama is shaking up the genre in all the best ways.Inspired by real life retired detectives rejoining police forces in a consultancy role given increasingly over-stretched resources, the series opener introduces us to Detective Inspector Alex Ridley , who has just retired from the police after years of dedicated service.
When Ridley’s old colleague Jean Dixon pays a visit, we soon find out that Ridley has in fact been “cut adrift” from the force in his prime after the tragic death of his wife and daughter in a house fire. Shouldering both the weight of his grief and the loss of his livelihood, Ridley has suffered a breakdown; but when Dixon informs him about the homicide of a local sheep farmer, Jesse Halpin, it’s clear that he has unfinished business to attend to. The tip-off comes with a warning, though.
It’s too late for that, though. Before long, Ridley’s former protégée and replacement DI Carol Farman , comes calling after discovering that fourteen years ago, Ridley had actually questioned Halpin in connection with the abduction of a local girl, Zoe Lindsey. DCI Paul Goodwin tells Farman that while Ridley believed that the investigation into her disappearance was flawed, he doesn’t want Ridley “stirring things up” on this new case.
After having dinner together, Ridley and Farman team up to try and find out who really took down Halpin. No-one in the village has a good word to say about the surly sheep farmer, who by all accounts was an oppressive man who liked “his women to stay at home”. In fact, a young man by the name of Steve Parry, who is dating Halpin’s daughter Catherine, tells the police that he’s not sorry he’s dead - he worked Catherine “like a skivvy” and injured his dog with a vicious trap laid in his woodland.
Back at the Halpin’s farm, tenant Lorna Spalden threatens Farman with a shotgun. When they take her into custody, she confesses that she helped Halpin bury the body of a little girl in the woods all those years ago. She leads the police to the spot where they did the deed, and Ridley heads back to the caravan park to inform Zoe Lindsey’s mother Penny that they’ve recovered the remains of a child on Halpin’s land.
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