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Overton. A tiny Village in the English countryside. Farming is its bread-and-butter. Race-horses are its beating heart. But beyond the rolling hills and behind the stable doors lies a green and not-so-pleasant land... When the body of a local teenage boy is found underneath the wheels of a tractor, the villagers in this remote community - his friends - are forced to open up their world and watch their secrets spill out. Secrets that will change their particular brand of country life forever.
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The police interview the group about the night they last saw Cal. Nobody mentions drugs and yet DCI Simson discovers some in Cal's caravan and deduces that he was dealing. James' sister Bee arrives for his eighteenth birthday though he is no mood to celebrate. She tells him he should leave the ailing farm for further education but he believes he should stay. Eli surprises Tina by coming into work as he is desperate to save a favourite horse. Though the locals mistrust Ruth single, mother of a baby girl whose father is supposedly Tina's dad a fact only Ruth and Tina know, Dominic, engaged in shifty business with Rob, tries to date her to get inside information but she refuses. Janine is shown to be an impostor who has been manufacturing drugs and she is arrested whilst James frantically searches for something in Cal's trailer and Ruth's little girl is rushed to hospital.
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Janine is arrested and remanded in custody; Janine's real name is revealed to be Elizabeth Marshall. Rob initially fails to give her an alibi but, seeing that his stalker has sent him an incriminating picture of him with Janine, he changes his story and she is released. Cal's jailbird father Thomas Bray arrives handcuffed for his son Cal's funeral, from which the travelers bar the outsiders from the village. Tempers are heated and Eli ends up fighting with his father. After the funeral Eli tries to speak to Chris, a boy who was in care with Cal, but he runs off. The young friends have a bonfire and let of flares and fireworks to say goodbye to Cal. Ruth is still suspicious of Dominic, especially when CCTV footage shows him arguing with Cal on a garage station, hours before he died. She goes to see Janine, and finds her unconscious and bloody on her floor whilst a yellow car is driving away at speed.
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Whilst Janine remains in a coma, visited by her mother,Susannah, Jackie tells James that if the farm is to be saved their horse Blackout must win an upcoming race at Newbury so that it has sufficient value for a hefty sale price. However Dominic owes a gang fifty thousand pounds over a lost consignment of stolen cigarettes and asks Tina to ride Blackout and lose the race - which she does with great sadness, confessing to Eli afterwards. Eli himself goes in search of Chris but is knocked unconscious from behind by Ruth's colleague Ian. Afterwards he rescues Ruth's little girl who has wandered into the road as Ruth gives chase to the yellow car she saw leave Janine's house. It is being driven by a little boy from the travellers. Ruth confronts Dominic over the CCTV footage at the garage. He admits his feelings for her but she mistrusts him and turns him down.
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Suspecting that James is his stalker Rob joins the farm's pheasant shoot as a beater, giving James drugged coffee to force him to tell the truth. In fact it makes James hallucinate, seeing Cal, who was his gay lover and who tells him to 'destroy the contract to save the farm'. Left alone Rob is confronted by his actual stalker, a mysterious girl who blames him for the loss of her sister. Whilst Tina and Eli continue to get closer Ruth visits the reclusive Sam, finding evidence that Cal would stay with him. Finding a carving of a 'white tree' she follows this up and discovers it is where Cal and James first kissed. An emotional James tells her that he has found the contract mentioned by Cal, which proves that Cal's family co-owned Blackout. She sees this as a motive for murder.
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James is remanded in custody and rings Rob, who can give him an alibi. Rob tells Tina that at the time of Cal's death he and James were seeing a man who could supply Cal and James with fake passports so they could run off together. The forger is located but he eludes Rob and the police do not accept the alibi. Tina proposes marriage to Rob but he rejects her, saying that he knows she loves Eli. Later they discover the body of Ian and when Ruth interviews Tina she tells her that 'Janine' has also died. Both girls now start to believe that James is innocent.
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With Ian dead, Ruth is removed from duty; James remains in police custody; Tina makes a plan to leave town.
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Tina is upset that Eli did not meet her to run away with and is consoled by Annie whilst Ruth reconciles with her mother. Bee comes to the farm and finds signs of a struggle and James gone - taken by Eli. Having established that Janine was responsible for Cal going into care Ruth tells Tina about Eli's confession and her belief that he is out to punish everybody who tried to separate him from his brother. Making up for old grievances they go after the boys and, when they catch up with them, discover the truth about Cal's death.
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Rob
James
Tina
Annie
Dominic
Janine
DCI Simson
Marah
DI Mariner