ITV's second series of contemporary detective drama, Grace, airs tonight.
Grace is an adaption of international, bestselling author Peter James’ award-winning novels. John Simm will return as Brighton-based detective superintendent Roy Grace, Richie Campbell will star as DS Glenn Branson and Rakie Ayola as ACC Vosper.
The second series of Grace will comprise four 120 minute films; Looking Good Dead, Not Dead Enough, Dead Man’s Footsteps and Dead Tomorrow.
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The first episode, 'Looking Good Dead' will see DS Roy Grace suspect the sudden death of a former schoolteacher found in suspicious circumstances in a respectable Brighton backwater may not be the drugs overdose it first appears.
When human remains are discovered in a Sussex field , Grace and Branson are drawn into an investigation that will test their abilities and their friendship to breaking point.
Though each case initially appears to be an isolated incident, Grace’s instinct leads him to believe both deaths are the work of a twisted, sadistic serial killer who leaves a bizarre calling card at the scene of each crime. However, with his professional stock still low and his credibility in question, Grace's hardest job might be convincing the ’Upstairs’ that there is a predator who is hunting victims along the South Coast.
Meanwhile, in Hove, a local businessman finds a pen drive left behind by a passenger on his evening commuter train home. Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, in seeking to return the memory stick to its unknown owner, he opens Pandora’s Box, unleashing an evil that will reach out to imperil all he holds dear, as he, his wife and family become unwittingly connected to Grace’s investigation.
With Grace already having to contend with Assistant Chief Constable Alison Vosper urging him to leave his Brighton hometown to take up a post in a neighbouring Constabulary, hardly a ringing endorsement of his professional standing, he and the team must race against time to put the pieces together and catch their killer before further innocent lives fall victim to the murderer’s bloodlust.
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