Curtis – The episode opens with an anxious Detective Curtis Hamilton (Gershwyn Eustache Jnr) looking around the busy room. He talks about being someone normal who others don’t want to kill. He hides his homosexuality and pretends to be interested in women. In a flashback, Detective Millie-Jean Black (Tamara Lawrance) sitting at his desk. Curtis forces her to get up. Daniel (Jomo Tafari Dixon) hands her the Bernell case file and starts to tell her about it but Curtis rudely cuts him off. Millie looks between them. In the present, Millie’s plane lands at Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom. She hands  Daphne’s passport to the immigration officer (Hannah Boyde) who asks where she will be staying. Millie tells her that she will be staying with a relative, Martisha Wilson, in Lewisham. Kyle (Theo Graham) takes her bags and escorts her to a van before leaving to pick up more passengers. A man sits in the back with his eyes closed. She checks the van’s GPS history. Kyle returns with several people. Later, they arrive at a multi-story house. Inside, a man leads Millie through the house to the kitchen. An older lady asks for her passport. Millie says Val said something about a nanny position. Raising her voice, the woman lets her know that she is in control but agrees to notify her family that she arrived safely. Millie asks for Pia (Renee Bailey) among the women but none of them respond. Lying in bed, she repeats the addresses stored in the GPS system.

When Curtis refuses to answer Detective Lance Stennet’s (Christopher Daley) call, Daniel says both of their jobs are on the line. He reluctantly accepts the call. Stennet demands to know where Millie is because she never showed up at the police station with Janet Fenton (Shernet Swearine). Curtis denies knowing where she is and recalls alerting him the last time she made contact. Barracat (Belinda Reid) assures him that he did right and threatens Millie’s job if she doesn’t do the right thing. A driver encounters Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie) covered in blood while driving down the road. In the UK, Millie and several others are ordered to clean an office building. Leon Douglas (David Webber) tells Millie that he is from Jamaica. Seeing he looks unwell, she asks if she is okay. He says do as they say and it will get easier. She tells him that Pia and Romeo Lawrence Jr. (Tijhon Rose) were supposed to have come through three weeks ago. He denies encountering them. She asks if he knows Ahmed. He claims to have worked for Ahmed at another building site but can no longer handle a mop. She asks what for the address of the office building. He says it is near Gants Hill Roundabout. Alban (Nebli Basani) orders them to get back to work and docks her pay for being lazy. Grabbing her coat, she flees. She threatens Behrouz (Joseph Samimi) with deportation if he doesn’t tell her where she can find Ahmed. After speaking with two men, he tells her that Ahmed disappeared several weeks ago. She takes off running.

During a phone call, Holborn says Janet is dead and Corsica needs to take care of Millie. He warns that Freddie Summerville’s (Peter John Thwaites) murder will raise some questions and he needs to go home. He asks if they are threatening him. He calls Stennet and asks if Millie and Janet have been located. Stennet says they are searching for the Bombers and Curtis hasn’t seen her. Holborn tells him that Millie has a history of manipulating her partners. In the UK, Millie visits Meera Thakur (Anjli Mohindra). She says Ahmed told Freddie that Lindo had Romeo. Meera tells her that Ahmed’s battered body was found on the Isle of Sheppy and Nico Danvers (Jamael Westman) has been charged in his death. Millie wants to talk to him but only JPF can get her in Belmarsh. She gives her a paper with the GPS addresses and suggests Pia is at one of them. When Meera goes upstairs, Millie utilizes her phone to sign into her Belmarsh account. She warns Curtis that Daphne is in danger. He asks for a minute to process she is alive. She tells him that Meera believes she is there under JPF orders. Curtis accuses her of using Meera before reminding her that she doesn’t have a weapon or badge. She asks how Hibiscus (Chyna McQueen) is doing. He says no one at the Gully has seen her and JPF is watching her house. Overhearing Curtis talking to Millie, Daniel asks why he is protecting her. Curtis denies the allegation. Daniel tells him that Holborn contacted Stennet. Surprised Holborn is alive, Curtis walks away.

Holborn carries Janet’s lifeless body into the ocean and releases it. In the UK, Meera and Millie find Pia working in a nail salon. While getting her nails done, Millie promises to help Pia. Natalie Danvers (Umi Myers) asks if there is a problem. Millie assures her that everything is all right. Meera asks if the nail salon changed names. Natalie says it was formerly Aspirationail. Pia claims Romeo stayed in the van when Kyle dropped her off there. She declines her help for fear of her family’s safety.

Nico is marched through the prison so he can speak to Millie who asks him about Ahmed Adala. Nico denies having heard of him. Millie claims she knows he is Lindo’s. Nico knows her name. Millie begins panicking and asking how he knows her name. She asks if he’s Lindo. Millie begins asking about Romeo. The guards take Nico away seconds later. Meera complains about Millie using her login to interfere in an active case. She wants her to go in and see her governor. Meera says Millie’s boss will have to eat some crap to square it with hers. Millie confesses the JPF doesn’t know she’s there. Meera complains about her disappearing only to return and lie to her face. Millie insists they did everything right with Victor, but they just didn’t get there in time. Meera says she’ll have to report her. Millie asks for a head start.

Millie is told to see herself out. Before Millie leaves, she takes a knife. Outside, Luke ends up behind her and says he just wants to talk. Millie tries to kill him. Luke says he needs her help and he knows she wants Romeo. He says there’s no way to get Romeo without ending Lindo. Luke asks what she found in Belmarsh. Luke believes Lindo is a she. Stennet and others raid Curtis and Daniel’s flat. Stennet says it was a protocol breach yesterday and it’s murder today. Janet’s body was pulled out of Kingston Harbour this morning. Curtis and Daniel are hauled out of the building and thrown into police vehicles. Stennet questions Daniel at the station while Curtis watches. Millie tells Luke she’s going to arrest him for Janet’s murder as soon as they find Romeo. Luke says Lindo presented herself as an informant about six months ago. Lindo offered him the chance to take down Sanguis Meridian and make a little money along the way.

A few weeks ago, Lindo asked Luke to track down a Sanguis soldier who had crossed her. Millie suspects that was Ahmed. She says it was a smooth operation until Romeo, but Luke claims Sanguis never dealt with kids. Luke believes there is a connection between Lindo and Nico. He goes on to say Nico is in the same prison wing as a Jamaican named Corsica. He was deported after serving his time and given a mission to put together a crew. Millie believes Ahmed is the common thread between them. She says they should speak to Ahmed’s next of kin. They speak to Ambra Adala (Joanna Ignaczewska) who is asked about Nico and Lindo. Millie mentions Gants Hill where they were trafficking people. Luke steps outside for a call. As they leave, Luke says she gave them nothing. Millie wants to pick up the driver, Kyle. They find him at the nail salon where Pia was. They rush Kyle when he enters the salon and assault him.

Kyle says the girls are back at the flat and they’ve been reassigned. He says he just picked up people and dropped them off outside there. Millie asks about the boy. Kyle says he was brought out back and he got into a car. Kyle claims there is no Lindo and the boy is gone. He wants protection. Kyle reveals Lindo is the alias they’re using to sell the kid online. When Kyle is taken into custody, Luke asks the police to hold him overnight. Millie and Luke search the place where they likely did the handoff. She finds paperwork with Natalie Halliday’s name on it Luke checks her record and finds a stabbing incident in 2009. She had multiple foster parents from 1997 to 2005. They find out that her birth mother’s name was Danvers. Her brother, Nico Danvers, was holding the knife in the 2009 incident. Millie suggests Natalie found a way to use the existing pipeline while remaining anonymous under the Lindo alias. Luke believes they can get to her, but they should find Romeo first.

Curtis tells Daniel he told Stennet everything he wanted to hear about Millie Black. He tries to smooth things over with Daniel. Daniel thinks he should’ve learned his lesson and stayed away from Curtis. Millie visits Leon to talk about the one they failed, Victor. Millie tells Leon about Romeo who is being sold on the dark net. She has a user alias he could use to track the markets. Moments later, Millie gets a call from Luke who learns they can find Romeo. Millie steps outside just in time to get Luke gets plowed by a car. A woman, Natalie, steps out of the vehicle and shoots Luke a few times. Millie checks on Luke and takes his gun. She asks Leon how she found them. They manage to find a profile for Romeo on the dark net. Leon says the video of Romeo is old and he was sold yesterday. He may have already been delivered. Leon thinks they should hand this over to the real police.

Millie believes there must be something to link them to the buyer. They clean up the audio in the video and hear something. Leon says it sounds Eastern European. Millie says that’s a television and it’s Albanian. Leon hears a baby. She believes they were right there. Curtis and Daniel talk in the morning. Millie calls Meera and leaves a message saying Romeo is in one of the terraced houses on the Ravenscourt Estate. Millie says she’s going in. When Ambra opens the door, Millie pushes her way inside and holds Ambra at gunpoint. She cuffs her to a banister and grabs the keys. Then, Millie enters the flat next door. She sneaks upstairs where she finds Romeo sitting on a bed. Romeo says it’s his uncle and aunt downstairs. Millie asks if he wants to see his parents. Someone calls for Romeo from another room. Millie hides when the woman comes upstairs. The woman tells Romeo they’re going on a trip and they’re going to meet a new friend.

Millie confronts them downstairs at gunpoint. She asks the uncle (Zariah Bailey) and the aunt (Rachel-Sophia Anthony) where they were taking Romeo. The uncle grabs a knife and tries to attack only to get shot. Natalie shows up and fires a shot at Millie but misses. Millie tells her to put down the gun and she’ll try to help her. They eventually fire shots at one another. Romeo runs outside when he hears sirens. Of course, Millie is just fine. Meera comes inside and calls for an ambulance. Back in Jamaica, Stennet takes Millie’s ID card. Curtis says she walked out bare and he was stripped to the bone. Shirley Lawrence (Shanice McCatty) yells for Romeo to come inside now. Millie watches them from her car. Millie calls Hibiscus to say she’s good for home this time. She goes looking for Hibiscus but can’t find her. Millie talks about the ghosts and wanting Hibiscus to know she loves her. Millie sold the house and everything in it.

 

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Much of the first four episodes were filler, resulting in a bloated finale. Dozens of new characters and nearly as many side stories are added to create even more bloat. Matters only got worse when the episode stretched out over an hour. The extra 15 minutes of viewing time did nothing to secure a complete and satisfactory ending.

Millie broke more laws than a hardened criminal but avoided jail time. At least, she wasn’t praised a hero. The anti-LGBTQ rhetoric was nothing more than mere propaganda. Law enforcement agencies across the globe are open to hiring LGBTQ candidates. The finale deserves a 3.5 out of 10.

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