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series Title Directed by Written by Original air date UK viewers
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9 1 " Castles in the Air " 🌛 Will Sinclair Paul Rutman & Gaby Chiappe 25 August 2013 ( ) 6.29
When a young woman, Lizzie Faulkner, is shot 🌛 late at night outside the holiday chalet where she and two friends are staying for the weekend, Vera and Joe 🌛 suspect that her murder is linked to poachers operating in nearby fields. They identify a suspect, Robert Doran, but despite 🌛 being in the vicinity at the time, he denies being responsible for Lizzie's murder. Vera begins to suspect the woman's 🌛 death may have been a case of mistaken identity, and that the intended victim may have been one of the 🌛 chalet designers, Corrine Franks, who was meant to have been staying there at the time. A link to a tragic 🌛 car accident a few months earlier involving Corrine, which led to an innocent woman losing her life, appears to confirm 🌛 their theory. When Corrine is later killed in a hit-and-run, the team finally get the breakthrough they have been looking 🌛 for.
10 2 " Poster Child " Paul Cotter Paul Rutman 1 September 2013 ( ) 6.74
An acclaimed doctor, Dan Marsden, 🌛 is shot through the skull in the living room of his remote country home, and his two daughters, Karen and 🌛 Mira, are taken against their will. Meanwhile, a new DC, Barry Kelman, is temporarily assigned to the team to help 🌛 them with the investigation. Initial suspicion falls upon Jonah Regan, an award-winning photographer who had previously tried to adopt Mira 🌛 before the Marsden family were granted custody. However, it soon becomes apparent that one of Mira's relatives - her estranged 🌛 brother, Malik - who was thought to have died in a bomb attack in Baghdad - is in fact alive 🌛 and well, and has been contacting her through her social media accounts. Malik, however, is determined to flee back to 🌛 his homeland with Mira in tow - but when he comes face to face with Laura Marsden and DC Kelman, 🌛 tragedy strikes.
11 3 " Young Gods " Dušan Lazarević Gaby Chiappe 8 September 2013 ( ) 6.54
A group of sixth 🌛 form students on a weekend retreat at a leisure centre bear witness to a man on fire who falls from 🌛 a cliff into the river below. The victim, Gideon Frane, is discovered to have been a former head boy at 🌛 a local boarding school for high achieving students, but is also known to have a chequered past, having been responsible 🌛 for 97 incidents of harassment against his ex-girlfriend. When Billy discovers the cause of death was poisoning, Vera begins to 🌛 look at the case from a completely different perspective. When the team finally track down Gideon's former best friend, Jamie 🌛 Levinson, both he and Vera fall victim to a further poisoning. Connections start to build when Joe links the case 🌛 to the death of a former teacher at their school, whose daughter happened to be present when Gideon was murdered.
12 🌛 4 " Prodigal Son " Thaddeus O'Sullivan Marston Bloom 15 September 2013 ( ) 6.54
