Kirsty and Leon get closer...

Kirsty and Leon get closer...
Kirsty and Leon get closer... (Image credit: Steven Peskett)

Pcs Kirsty Knight and Leon Taylor make the unpleasant discovery of a woman's body in a bag. But their bad day at work leads to some very close bonding between the bobbies... The dead woman was Luisa Dias and, although Kirsty and Leon found her on dry land, she was actually drowned. They go to the home she shared with boyfriend Dominic and their son, Paulo and it's quickly clear to them that the bathroom in the flat is where she was killed. But Dominic and Paulo are missing... Are they dead, too? While Kirsty and Leon look for clues, another man tries to get into Luisa's flat. Caught by Leon, he says he's Roberto, Luisa's brother and the officers realise he doesn't know his sister is dead. When they break the news, Roberto is devastated and tells them Luisa was planning to leave Dominic. Thanks to Dominic's granny, Kirsty and Leon work out that Dominic is at his former home on the Larkmead Estate. When DI Neil Manson phones him, Dominic admits he killed Luisa and that Paulo is alive and with him. By the time Kirsty and Leon get to him, though, all is not at all well... At the end of the day, the two coppers console each other over drinks then jump in a taxi – together...

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.