Ashes To Ashes Episode Guide, Season 2 - Pazsaz Entertainment Network

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Episode 1
When a dead man is found in a Soho strip club, it looks like a sex game has gone wrong. So when the deceased is discovered to be a police officer, Gene and Alex are ordered to keep the case under wraps. PC Sean Irvine was supposed to be clearing the streets of vice, but did he instead become seduced by it? When the pathologist uncovers signs that Sean was murdered, the team need to discover whether he was killed because he was a corrupt cop, or because he was an honest one. As the case leads them onto dangerous territory, Alex finds herself kidnapped by a man whose words threaten her whole perspective on this world. Only Gene can save her, but even if he gets there in time, Alex fears that someone else in 1982 knows her dark secret: that she is from the future. Meanwhile, sounds and messages from that future suggest to Alex that her circumstances have changed. Lying with a bullet in her head on the wet ground of an abandoned boat, is it possible that someone has discovered her?

Episode 2
The team is on the hunt for major vehicle thief Jed Wicklow, but when a car chase leads to his death, Gene stands accused of causing it through reckless driving. Alex is adamant that there was something wrong with Jed at the wheel and wants to prove that the crash wasn't Gene's fault. The deceased Jed was a Romany gypsy, and hostilities run high on the camp as CID heavy-handedly try to uncover the circumstances of his death. But in an investigation that's already met with resistance, someone in the police force also appears to be standing in their way. Gene needs to get the result he wants without treading on the toes of his revered superior, Detective Inspector Mackintosh, known to all as Supermac. But will Alex be able to trust that he'll not take the easy option of a cover-up? As the divide grows between Gene and Alex, she gets another visit from the mysterious stranger whose presence could be the key to her finding her way home.

Episode 3
Animal rights activists have threatened a series of attacks in London and the first victim, the daughter of a commercial laboratory owner, is in hospital. Gene orders his team not to sleep until those responsible are behind bars. Their first stop is a prison where Robin Elliot, a known animal rights campaigner, is serving time for killing a scientist in the 1970s. Alex is convinced that Robin knows about the planned attacks, but with no contact with the outside world, there doesn't appear to be any way for him to be involved. Robin's eerily prescient knowledge of the future makes Alex think that he could be involved not only with the case, but with her own fate; having heard the voices of ambulance men, Alex worries that hope is fading for her survival in the present day. Gene skirts closely towards a dangerous conflict with Supermac, who warns Gene to toe the line or face the consequences. As Alex fights for her life, Gene fights for his career; can they prevent more casualties before time runs out?

Episode 4
There's a visitor from Gene Hunt's old stomping ground of Manchester. Jackie Queen is a journalist who's had run-ins with Gene in the past and this time she has a surprise in store. Not one to miss out on a story, she's also investigating the disappearance of northern teenagers that have arrived in London. She wants help to find one in particular: Rachel, her niece, who has run away and Jackie fears has been lured into the seedy underbelly of the capital. Alex is suspicious of Jackie, and with the threat of a transfer haunting Gene, she's desperate they get to the bottom of the corruption she believes is in the force. But as the investigation progresses, evidence leads them to a man named Jarvis. On the surface he's a legitimate business man, but they are convinced that he's responsible for the murders of young girls. With an expensive solicitor and smug demeanour, Jarvis appears untouchable, and what's worse, seems to have protection from within the Met itself. As the pressure mounts to find Rachel, the team are forced to acknowledge that the force is being poisoned from the inside. Gene's loyalty is tested as he and Alex are forced to stop to it, however messy the consequences.

Episode 5
When a violent burglary occurs at Alex's in-laws' house, she comes face-to-face with their son Peter, the 14-year-old future father of Molly! Alex is desperate to help Molly's grandparents all she can, but Gene wants a big collar to bury the press stories of police corruption, and dismisses the case as trivial. When the fingerprints from the crime scene reveal the burglar was George Staines, a notorious gangster, now supposedly dead, Gene realises this could be the catch he was after. Alex remembers hearing stories about the burglary, and is convinced that she would remember if the culprit was as infamous as Staines. Gene is determined to uncover the truth and get the headline he deserves, but will Alex's loyalty to her in-laws and pent-up resentment of her ex-husband lead her down the wrong path? Alex finally gets to meet the mysterious man who has been circling her, and he arrives with a proposition; is her desire to get back to Molly strong enough to become a corrupt copper?

Episode 6
A dead body found floating in a canal is identified as Colin Mitchell, a man recently reported missing by his glamorous wife, Donna. Gene discovers that Colin worked for Trevor Riley, a nasty loan shark with a habit of hurting those who mess with him. A ruthless capitalist, Riley invokes terror in the community he controls, and Gene sets his sights on bringing this cocky and unscrupulous man down. Alex can't shake the feeling that Donna is hiding something, and wants to use her profiling skills to explore the case further. However, these skills start to fail her as she undergoes surgery in 2008 to have the bullet removed from her brain. Alex can only wait to see if she'll pull through. Meanwhile, Gene's determination leads him onto equally dangerous ground.

Episode 7
What looks like a simple drugs-drop at a building site turns into a murder case when CID find a body buried in concrete. The site owner, Michael Lafferty, is working on major redevelopments to the London Docklands, and is resistant to having CID trampling on his turf. Many believe Lafferty is crooked - among them an eager young PC who thinks he's paying off his superior officers, plus several of the Polish workers he exploits. All the while Alex is waiting, convinced she's recovering in the hospital and will wake up soon. However, the case begins to clash with her desire to get home and, when something occurs that shatters her view of how this world works, she is haunted by thoughts of her parents' death and whether she could have prevented it. Desperate to get out of this increasingly confusing place, Alex is pushed to the limit. Just how far will she go to carve a path back home, and will she ever be able to share it with Gene?

Episode 8
Alex has caught a hospital infection and knows the doctors in 2008 are losing hope for her. Feeling ill, weak and estranged from Gene, she is terrified that time is running out for her to get home. But when an informant is tortured and killed, Gene is convinced that a major blag is about to happen and wants CID to fire on all cylinders to stop it. Alex desperately needs Gene's help, but to get it would involve telling him the truth about who she is and where she is from, the reality of which is surely too big for him to comprehend. Gene grows increasingly suspicious of Alex's behaviour, and at the same time his head is turned by Jenette, an attractive woman whose uncomplicated nature and simple belief in him offers him everything Alex cannot. A wedge develops between Alex and Gene that threatens to rip the whole team apart, and their relationship is put to its toughest test yet in a heart-stopping showdown.