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Lindy
14-04-2006, 00:41
Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman, James Bolam and Alun
Armstrong return as the unlikely team of detectives reinvestigating
unsolved crimes from the past.
When Stephen Murray wins his legal battle with the Met Police to
return the wreck of his prized sports car, Detective Superintendent
Sandra Pullman decides to get her team of ex-coppers to
reinvestigate the five-year-old case of his wife Nancy’s death at the
wheel. Pullman worked on the original case and had been troubled
throughout by Stephen’s lack of emotion but, due to promotion,
she didn’t get to see the investigation through to its conclusion.
Nancy, a school teacher, had been receiving anonymous letters
threatening to send explicit pictures of her and a secret lover to
the school board. Neither the author nor the lover were identified
in the original investigation and the only clue to the lover’s identity
now is a small tattoo.
Pullman makes the mistake of getting too involved. She is
determined to discover why Stephen wants to retrieve the car his
wife died in, and why he is so detached and clinical. But the team
decides to widen the investigation and pursue Nancy’s two closest
friends – Christine, now headmistress at Nancy’s school and Josie,
a sex therapist – for some answers.
When Pullman and Gerry Standing quiz Christine, she claims that
Nancy and Stephen were blissfully happy, but this only makes
Pullman more suspicious.When she overhears Christine arranging
to meet Josie at a local restaurant, Pullman sends Jack Halford and
Brian Lane undercover to observe the two women. It soon
becomes clear that the two share a secret about their friend’s
death, but make a pact never to reveal the details.
Meanwhile, further investigation of the secret lover’s tattoo leads
the team to Larry Bevan, a male prostitute, who has links to all
three women.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is played by Amanda
Redman, Gerry Standing by Dennis Waterman, Jack Halford by
James Bolam, Brian Lane by Alun Armstrong, Stephen Murray by
Charles Dale, Christine by Siobhan Redmond, Josie by Denise
Black and Larry Bevan by Steve John Shepherd.