3.045 minSeason 5 • Episode 6
LatestThe team discovers someone has been withholding information and as they set to piece together the truth Jenn's left contemplating her future in the MIU.
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
Acting
Morven Christie's Lisa is a masterclass in controlled unravelling.
Direction
Morecambe Bay itself: beautiful, deadly, indifferent.
Writing
Daragh Carville never lets cops off the hook.
Creators
Richard Clark, Daragh Carville
Marsha Thomason
DS Jenn Townsend
Daniel Ryan
DI Tony Manning
Erin Shanagher
DS Karen Hobson
Barry Sloane
Chris Fischer
David Carpenter
Conor Townsend
Andrew Dowbiggin
DS James Clarke
Olwen May
DC Lou McClaren
Leanne Best
Julie Ashworth
Suzanne Packer
Anne Jackson
Lex Shrapnel
David Wallasey
Ceallach Spellman
Bradley Dawson
David Troughton
Tommy Campbell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Morecambe Bay is notorious for real-life 'cockle picker' drownings—2004's tragedy of 23 Chinese immigrants haunts the region's cultural memory.
The Bay inverted the 'strong female detective' trope: Lisa Armstrong is competent, compassionate, and catastrophically self-destructive—a rare messy woman in British crime drama.
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