Five Days

A five-part mini-series that revolves around the disappearance of a young mother in a quiet British suburb and the circumstances that leave her children abandoned far from home.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cast:Suranne Jones , Lee Massey , David Oyelowo , Michelle Bonnard , Luke Hudson , Anne Reid , Tyler Anthony , Penelope Wilton , Sarah Smart , Bernard Hill , Shivaani Ghai , Matthew McNulty , Derek Riddell , Lucinda Dryzek , Charlie Creed-Miles , Janet McTeer , Jason Watkins , Hugh Bonneville

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Day One

Tue, Jan 23, 2007

Mother of three, Leanne Wellings, disappears whilst out looking for flowers.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Day Three

Wed, Jan 24, 2007

Leanne's mother, Barbara, makes an emotional appeal for her daughter's return.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Day Twenty Eight

Thu, Jan 25, 2007

Barclay has to defend the course of his enquiry to an independent police review.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Day Thirty Three

Tue, Jan 30, 2007

Leanne's body is discovered in a lake, and the family begins to turn on each other.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Day Seventy Nine

Thu, Feb 1, 2007

Leanne's murder is eventually solved, but can the family get on with their lives?

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Day 1

Mon, Mar 1, 2010

Day 1: In Northeast England, lives intersect when a baby is found abandoned in a hospital toilet, while a young Muslim commits suicide by jumping in front of a train.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Day 2

Tue, Mar 2, 2010

The identity of the person killed by the train is revealed after a photofit is posted, but this only complicates matters as national intelligence immediately get involved. Besides the name, the police still know almost nothing about the victim, including any relationship to the abandoned baby, Michael.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Day 8

Wed, Mar 3, 2010

Michael takes ill in the hospital and the diagnosis is suspected methadone withdrawal. A week after the murder and there are no leads. A reconstruction is staged where Laurie is annoyed by Gerry's interference and stroppy Muslim passenger Jamal Matthews accuses her of inciting Islamophobia. An old lady alerts Laurie to the disappearance of her neighbours on the day of the incident - a man and two women. Farid's shoe is found in their car but was apparently also worn by someone else. Nuss disowns Khalil to the adoption officer and soon afterwards their father,Ibra, finds images of Khalil with a Taliban-type group on his computer following Khalil's visit to Pakistan,allegedly to study. At the same time Khalil is meeting Jamal Matthews.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Day 37

Thu, Mar 4, 2010

Nick takes Michael home and confesses to Colly, his dead wife's sister, that he wants to keep him but Didi tells Colly a child needs a mother and Nuss and Danny are in the frame for the adoption. Khalil freaks out at a royal visit and is briefly taken in by Laurie,which angers Ibra,who confronts his son with the computer photos,to be told they were from the past and that Khalil is changed. Pat meets old flame Maureen who tells him she lived next to the old lady with her friend's daughter Katie - now in Manchester and Michael's mother - and an Afghani boy. But he is not Farid as believed as the real Farid turns up to say he was his brother. Jen and Gerry get close as he goes with her to hospital,where her condition is re-diagnosed as physical degeneration and not Alzheimer's. Laurie and Mal also get close but,as Pat takes Maureen to the police to explain her innocence, Mal is hit by a car whilst pursuing Sohel, one of the train passengers.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Day 102

Fri, Mar 5, 2010

Spolier; Reveals End. Two months later, Laurie, still limping from the accident that killed Mal,learns that Jen and Gerry are to marry. Maureen, having told the police she was on the bridge when the boy jumped but did not push him, lives with Pat. Farid, Michael's real father,is preparing to collect him from a resentful Nick and will raise him helped by Maureen.However Maureen steals Michael and takes him to Katie,his mother,who is not interested. She returns to Pat,telling him she shopped Farid for drug-dealing,causing his brother to kill himself as he was left on his own. Pat then kills her for having deserted him twice over,though Michael is safe. Khalil is imprisoned on suspicion of terrorism for having been at the camp in Pakistan and Nuss and Danny fear this will harm their adoptions chances forever.