Thu, May 23, 2013
Whilst shopping for her son's engagement party Gill is abducted at knife point by a drunken Helen Bartlett, angry to have been charged with a crime which she reported in the first instance which has led her to be publicly reviled. She demands Gill drive them 'to the seaside'. Rachel is still arguing with Gill when a member of the public reports the incident and Julie Dodson takes charge, asking the women for their help. Helen is identified from the air and her partner Louise tells the police she believes the car is going to Flamborough Head in Yorkshire, where Helen spent childhood holidays and which is a well-known suicide spot. The car duly arrives but is surrounded by marksmen, causing Helen to take drastic action though, with the closure of the case, the whole incident brings reconciliation between Scott and Bailey.
Sun, Jun 26, 2011
After Lynne Stott's body is found wrapped in bin bags on a building site the details lead Janet to believe that she is another victim of the serial killer who murdered Veronica nearly forty years earlier. Rachel meets Martine Cooper, a juror with whom Nick had an affair during a case where his client was acquitted but decides not to use it against him. Instead she follows up Janet's hunch and inadvertently puts her friend in danger as Janet comes face to face with the killer who escapes after seriously wounding her with a knife.
Sun, Jul 3, 2011
Three months have elapsed and Janet returns to work. Rachel is living with Nick but Janet feels he is using her to prevent her from reporting his malpractice and, after Rachel is the victim of a hit-and-run linked to a client of Nick's, tells Gill everything. Gill, despite her own problems caused by her vengeful ex-husband, decides against reporting Rachel. Ultimately not only does Janet prove herself to be a good colleague but solves a teenager's murder.
Wed, Oct 29, 2014
Callum Pritchard's abrasive, foul-mouthed widow Evie is brought in on suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and killing Michael Greenholme but there is insufficient evidence and she is released. She later issues a statement claiming police harassment and alleging that Gill reeked of drink when she arrested her. Fingerprints found on the baseball bat that killed Mike belong to a known criminal, Des, who was part of the Pritchards' slave force and is now missing. With Gill temporarily off the case Rachel takes charge and is determined to prove that Evie Pritchard killed Des, so that Gill can retire successfully.
Wed, Oct 22, 2014
A dead man is found on the moors with no clues to his identity until a woman called Maeve comes forward to name him as former lover Michael Greenholme, whom she last saw fifteen years ago. Janet and her colleagues interview farmer Callum Pritchard, who recently employed Michael, but he bolts and dies when his car overturns. A search of Pritchard's farm reveals three men imprisoned as slaves, opening a new line of enquiry when a simple employee of Pritchard is brought in. At the same time Janet informs Gill's friend DSI Julie Dobson that she is concerned about her boss drinking at work whilst Rachel learns from her sister that their mother has just died.
Wed, May 1, 2013
Seven youths' corpses are found in the Bevans' cellar, Joe denying all knowledge of them and only one of them, other than Michael, being identified. Then the remains of his daughter Sheila are discovered under his bedroom floor-boards. Eventually Joe admits to killing the boys, under pressure from Eunice, but claims to know nothing about Sheila. Helen tells Janet that she and her sister Julie assisted in burying one body but Gill is concerned that, as the press are pursuing Helen, one of her officers leaked her involvement. Rachel is forced to confess to a devastated Sean that she should never have married him and the reappearance of a drunken Sharon does not help but, whilst her personal life may be a mess, her questioning of Joe finally gets results.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013
Helen Bartlett comes to see Janet and tells her that over thirty years ago, as a little girl, her father Joe accidentally killed her brother Michael and forced her to bury him in their cellar. The police actually find two male corpses and DSI Julie Dodson is brought in to head the inquiry, seeing Helen as victim more than offender. More male bodies are found of which Helen claims to know nothing but Joe, on remand for killing Eunice, calls her a liar. Two witnesses come forward - a man who took Helen and her sister in to protect them from their violent parents and a former lodger of the Bevans, one of several young men picked up and abused by them, though he claims Helen was not so innocent. With her house failing to sell and seeing young Rob Masterson promoted to sergeant over her head the last thing Janet wants is Helen, drunk and upset after the press have leaked her identity, arriving at her house at night.
Mon, Apr 30, 2012
Gill feels sorry for sweet old lady Margaret Selwyn, after her husband Colin's accidental death but, when Margaret's daughters reveal that Margaret had often spoken of killing her husband, a murder inquiry is opened. Andy gets transferred to another division after spitefully attempting to get Janet into trouble but a reconciliation with Adrian is not on the cards after he learns of his wife's affair. Meanwhile Rachel, following a drunken night out about which she can remember nothing, is the prime suspect after Nick Savage is killed. She is exonerated - but at a price - and eventually goes to see her mother.
Wed, Apr 3, 2013
Elderly Eunice Bevan's corpse is discovered in her house whilst her bed-ridden, ailing husband Joe lies in the room above. With no sign of forced entry it looks as if the killer was one of the Bevans' children but the only one still around is daughter Helen and she claims to have had no contact with them for thirty years. Joe however is convinced he heard Helen argue with her mother and she is arrested. Helen tells Rachel that when she was growing up the parents abused her and her siblings, one of whom committed suicide. Janet, now acting sergeant, sees that Joe is far more mobile than he claims and the police reason that one of the two must be the killer. Rachel is less sure that she did the right thing in marrying Sean and can also do without the reappearance of her loud, drunken mother Sharon.
Wed, May 22, 2013
Janet throws Rachel out after walking in on her having sex with Kevin and the women have a huge row. Next day the relationship is icy as they investigate the suspicious death of elderly Kenneth Valentine. Kenneth's son Philip had had a drunken argument with him over Philip moving his girlfriend into his father's flat but the robbery squad tell the detectives that a youngster called Deepak Nadar was arrested for a theft on the street where Kenneth's body was found. Nadar and his accomplice are charged but Rachel's private life gets in the way as she confesses all to Sean, who publicly punches Kevin. The operation over, Gill tells the team the identity of the informer who leaked information to the press for money whilst Rachel refuses to go away with Kevin and moves in with her sister.