Grace amends the error of her ways

Grace amends the error of her ways (Image credit: Steven Peskett)

A past case comes back to bite DC Grace Dasari and she finds herself in a stand-off at a brothel with the distraught Kathy Merrill, who has a knife at the throat of Martin Taft, the man she believes knows what happened to her missing sister. Six months ago, Kathy reported sister Lisa’s disappearance. Now she’s claiming that because Grace has done nothing to find the teenager, she’s conducted her own investigation. Lisa was on the game, so Kathy went undercover as a prostitute and discovered Martin was obsessed with Lisa. Grace persuades Kathy to let him go and, at the station, tells her colleagues, what she found out six months ago… Lisa went off the rails after her mother died, had an abortion and became a junkie. She got herself clean and Grace assumed she’d moved away to start a new life. But then her body’s found in woodland… It’s starting to look as if Kathy was right about Martin, but then Grace discovers Lisa was having an affair with a teacher at her school, Brendan Newlyn (Ian Kelsey – Emmerdale, Casualty, Down to Earth). Questioned at the station, Brendan admits they were in the woods the night Lisa died and he left her there after they had a massive row. Under pressure from a furious Grace, Brendan cracks and tells her exactly what happened.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.