Shetland on ABC and ABC iview S8E1 – A Met detective returns to Shetland on the trail of Ellen Quinn, the vulnerable witness to a London gangland murder, when the popular Scottish crime drama returns for its 8th season.
Tosh pauses her investigation into a string of sinister animal killings to help DI Ruth Calder find Ellen before it’s too late. Their journey into the dark recesses of Shetland’s past and present will test this fragile, new partnership.
Ellen’s family are the influential Bains, led by dominant matriarch, Grace. Ellen left Shetland for London months ago. Her family have not seen her since and are surprised to hear that she is back.
Calder and Tosh speak to Ellen’s friends and trace the missing girl to a remote cottage. She evades their grasp and heads out into the moors on her own.
Two gangsters, the experienced Howell and volatile Nowak, arrive on the Isles in search of Ellen. After a covert visit to the Bain farm, they stumble upon her in a remote newsagent. Only an elderly shopkeeper stands in their way.
On top of the case, Calder is faced with figures from her past. She cringes through a chance encounter with deadbeat ex-boyfriend Cal Innes. Even worse is her visit to estranged younger brother Alan, now the minister of their father’s old kirk. It’s clear that the two siblings have starkly different views of their childhood.
Ellen fights back and escapes her captors with a death-defying act of bravery. Night falls as she stalks drenched and exhausted down a remote road, before a pair of headlights draws up behind her.
The next morning, Tosh summons Calder to a brutal scene at the remote shop. It’s not long until another call comes in with devastating news.
Production credit: ITV STUDIOS
Shetland on ABC and ABC iview – Friday 8 November at 8.30pm
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Shetland on ABC and ABC iview S8E1
