Better on ABC and ABC iview S1E1 –Leeds-based Detective Inspector Louisa ‘Lou’ Slack is keeping a dark secret.
Though everyone around her sees an upstanding citizen and accomplished police officer, they don’t know that for the last twenty years, she has been in the pocket of Leeds’s pre-eminent drug trafficker, Col McHugh; the two have used each other to climb up the ranks in their respective careers, becoming close friends and confidants in the process.
Lou’s husband Ceri is less than pleased to see Lou head off on her latest assignment for Col. At a dilapidated pub repurposed as a drug lab but now ruined by what appears to have been a gunfight, Lou finds what she is looking for – a pistol; on her way out, Lou witnesses a young man, a casualty of the gunfight, breathe his last breath.
Back home, Ceri continues to be frustrated by Lou’s tendency to keep him in the dark about the details of her work with Col.
The next day, Lou prepares for Col’s imminent birthday party; despite Lou’s reminders of Col’s generosity over the years, Ceri refuses to join her, electing to stay and look after Owen, who has been feverish lately; Ceri wonders why Lou has been taking on more assignments from Col recently.
Lou is driven to the party by Bulgey, Col’s right-hand man, and Noel, a member of Col’s gang, who keeps her phone for security.
Upon receiving her phone back after the party, Lou finds a deluge of texts and missed calls from Ceri; Owen has been rushed to hospital after Ceri found him unconscious and covered in rashes.
Production credit:
Sister Pictures & All3 Media International.
Better on ABC and ABC iview – Sunday 15 September at 9:20pm
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Better on ABC and ABC iview S1E1
