There’s a gunman on the loose!

There’s a gunman on the loose!
There’s a gunman on the loose! (Image credit: Steven Peskett)

Commander Lisa Kennedy (Julie Graham – Survivors) continues to assert her authority at Sun Hill in part one of this two-part story… Sgt Jo Masters and her team attend a road traffic accident and talk to a motorist, Helen Parr, who says she hit a black boy with her car but he ran off. Paul Sorrel is found injured in a nearby park but he can’t be the same lad: he’s white and a car hasn’t hit him, he’s been shot…fatally, as it turns out. When drugs are found under Helen’s car, it seems the officers could be dealing with a drugs war. Then teenager Devon Marshall turns up at St Hughes Hospital needing treatment after being hit by a car, and the officers hope they’ll get the answers they need. But they get nothing… Meanwhile, DC Mickey Webb has found a girl, Jasmine Harris, who says she saw Paul and Devon together with a bloke called Jedda Atkins. A search of Jedda’s home turns up a gun. Case solved? No… Jedda has an alibi for the time of the shooting and the gun isn’t the one used to kill Paul. DS Max Carter pushes Jo to do better, Lisa wants Jo to encourage the team to get over Sgt Callum Stone’s suspension – and Jo wants to find the gunman…

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.