Sam bids farewell to Sun Hill

DI Samamtha Nixon's service at Sun Hill comes to an end as this dramatic two-part story concludes. Sam's moving on to the Child Exploitation Unit but, before she goes, she's determined to nab Maloud Senac for drug dealing and find his kidnapped daughter, Salma. Sam thinks she can unlock the whole case by finding Gary Pfeiffer, who was importing the drugs for Maloud. She pulls in Gary's brother and business partner Daniel to find out how much he was involved. He admits he knew about the drug deal but says the whole business was Gary's idea. When he's shown the film of Salma begging her father to pay the ransom for her release, Daniel admits that they're lovers. He also suggests that Gary kidnapped her because Maloud wouldn't pay what he owed for the drugs. DC Terry Perkins follows Gary and sees him meet Maloud. Gary wants his money, Maloud wants his daughter. Without help from either of them, Salma is found injured but alive and she tells Stevie it was Gary who kidnapped her. But was he acting alone? The word from informant Kenny Boardman is that Daniel Pfeiffer is not the innocent brother he claims to be. Work over, Sam finds the time to tell her team that she's moving on. But she's in for a surprise...

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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.