Max and Stevie's careers are in jeopardy

Max and Stevie's careers are in jeopardy
Max and Stevie's careers are in jeopardy (Image credit: Tony Russell)

DCs Stevie Moss and Max Carter find their careers are on the line as this two-part story concludes. Murder suspect Justin Reed is lying in a coma after his motorbike crash, which happened while Stevie and Max were chasing him. Whether or not he's guilty, the fact that the crash happened could be fatal to their careers. It doesn't help that the two detectives have different feelings about the murder Justin is supposed to be involved in: Stevie is convinced he was set up and is determined to prove that he's innocent. Max, on the other hand, is sure he's guilty and is equally determined to prove that. They go back to Justin's sister, Rebecca, and her father, Henry, who are insisting that Justin had nothing to do with the death of Diane Anderson. But they can't prove it. Meanwhile, Barry Usher, Justin's friend and the man who was convicted of Diane's murder, is questioned further. And Max faces some tough questions from Supt Heaton about the crash the day before. Max is unsettled, but carries on with the investigation and, with Stevie, discovers the shocking truth about what really happened to Diane Anderson four years ago... That Justin is, indeed, innocent. Will they keep their jobs, or will Sun Hill be recruiting two new detectives?

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Patrick McLennan

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.