DI JIMMY PEREZ (Douglas Henshall) stands alone on the Lerwick pier. His coat is turned up against a bitter wind. He stares at a half-sunk fishing boat, its mast tilted like a broken cross. Rain slicks his face. He doesn’t blink.
The camera drifts over a gunmetal grey sea, whitecaps like torn lace. The sky is bruised purple and ochre. No music. Just the whump-whump-whump of helicopter rotors.
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TOSH in her car, alone. She pulls a crumpled photograph from her pocket – a missing girl from 1997. She turns it over. On the back, written in crayon: “I’m sorry.”
The cliff edge at Eshaness. Waves explode against black rock. Two figures stand twenty feet apart. One is PEREZ. The other is a hooded man, back to camera, holding a walking stick like a weapon. The wind steals their words.
PEREZ’S FACE, EXTREME CLOSE-UP. He’s in an interview room. Across from him, a suspect we don’t fully see – only their hands: knuckles white, gripping a plastic cup of water. Perez leans forward. His whisper is almost inaudible, but the subtitle reads:
