Time isn't always a healer

Time isn't always a healer
Time isn't always a healer

The sins of the father return to haunt the daughter in this tense episode, which sees DCs Jacob ‘Banksy’ Banks and Mickey Webb working together on the case of the missing 15-year-old daughter of a killer. Saskia Fuller has been visiting alcoholic dad Eamonn in prison, where he was put 13 years earlier for the murder of Paul Vincent while he was drunk. Eamonn’s served his time for the crime and is due for release but then Saskia disappears. As part of his routine enquiries, Banksy visits Paul’s widow, Trudy (guest star Pippa Haywood – Green Wing, Kingdom). If she knows anything, she’s not saying – she still hates Eamonn for what he did to her husband. Eamonn is more useful… He has letters from Saskia in which she mentions her boyfriend – who is Richard Vincent, Trudy’s son. It’s clear now what has happened to Saskia… Banksy tells Trudy what Richard has done and it’s clear she knew nothing about his abduction of Saskia. She agrees to phone Richard and begs him to surrender but he hangs up. Keeping ’em peeled pays off for the officers, though, and Richard is found and arrested. But he’s an angry young man who wants revenge and is not interested in showing forgiveness. So, no, he won’t tell Mickey and Banksy what he has done with Saskia.

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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.