In the Dark

Season

2017

6.8

As she deals with an unexpected pregnancy, D.I. Helen Weeks must return to the hometown she loathes, to help her childhood best friend who is in the centre of a media frenzy following the abduction of two teenage girls.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

Manchester-based DI Helen Weeks returns to her hometown of Polesford, Derbyshire when the husband of her childhood best friend is arrested in connection with the abduction of two girls.

S1 • E2

Episode #1.2

The possibility that her unborn child's father may be Adam Perrin, a colleague with whom she had a brief fling, adds to Helen's concerns. There is some good news though when pathologist Phil Hendricks arrives from Manchester with new theories about Abigail's murder, giving a possible lead that implicates Gavin Sweeney, though it proves to be a dead end. Then teenager Aurora "Rory" Harcross comes forward to give Stephen an alibi for the murder. This also gives Helen unpleasant memories from the past when she and Linda were sexually abused by Rory's grandfather and leads her to admit her affair with Adam to Paul. From her talk with Rory, Helen works out who abducted the two girls and is able to save Poppy and unmask the killer. However, her private life is now less easily resolved.

S1 • E3

Episode #1.3

Now reconciled, Helen and Paul return to Manchester but their happiness is short-lived when he is killed in a shooting. Meanwhile, a gang of youths, including the reluctant Theo, are killing and robbing passing motorists, and Helen visits Sarah Rushton, who survived one of their attacks. She also discovers a link between Frank Linnell, a businessman of dubious reputation, and Paul, and finally confronts taxi driver Ray Jackson, whom, along with the powerful Kevin Sherwood, she believes knows the full facts about Paul's fate.

S1 • E4

Episode #1.4

Helen's investigation pulls her further into Manchester's criminal underworld. Meanwhile, can Theo cheat death as the gang continues to be hunted by a mystery gunman?