The UCOS team fight fire with fire!

The UCOS team fight fire with fire!
The UCOS team fight fire with fire! (Image credit: Amanda Searle)

It seems that a fatal fire in London’s badlands in 1996 still has enough heat to hurt people, as Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her old dogs Jack, Brian and Gerry discover when they reopen the investigation. At the time of the fire, at a Union Club, it was ruled accidental, but a former employee, Dawn Abbott (Tilly Vosburgh – Susan Rose - EastEnders/Elaine Dalton – Holby City), is now saying that the fire was deliberately set to kill Mark Johnson, who had some very dodgy dealings and who, says Dawn, had received death threats. Well, if all that’s true then the fire did its job. Trouble is, Dawn hasn’t come forward out of the goodness of her heart. She’s been nicked on a drugs bust and may well say anything to try to get the law to look more kindly on her. But Mark’s brother Danny (Martin Marquez – Hotel Babylon) is sure his brother was murdered and wants to dish out his own punishment. Danny’s burning desire to know the truth doesn’t help Sandra & co, though… Knowing that he wants revenge, all surviving victims clam up, not wanting to suffer any more. So the team turns to the fire investigator, George Mackie (Roy Marsden – The Green Grass, The Palace) and, suddenly, the heat is really on...

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.