With the help of DS John Bacchus, Inspector George Gently spends his days bringing to justice members of the criminal underworld who are unfortunate enough to have the intrepid investigator assigned to their cases.
Cast:Martin Shaw , Lee Ingleby , Simon Hubbard , Lisa McGrillis , Tom Hutch , Don Gallagher , Annabel Scholey , Melanie Clark Pullen , Tony Rohr , Katie Anderson , Christopher Connel , Michael Hodgson , Maria Tecce , Derek Riddell , Tim Dann , Chris Brailsford , Mal Whyte , Barry O'Connor
After a young black girl is murdered, Gently uncovers a disturbing and malevolent racist undercurrent lurking both within the local community and his own police force.
Gently and Bacchus experience the inflated authority of their "social betters" firsthand when a beautiful young girl is found dead in the passenger seat of an upturned car registered to local aristocrats.
Gently and Bacchus are given an insight into the complexities of the emotionally wrought world when the adopted child of a middle-class couple is kidnapped.
The seismic forces that displaced Gently in 1964 are once more active - and have followed him to Durham.