Grace Season 2 Episode 1 Recap

As Grace: Not Dead Enough begins, DSI Roy Grace (John Simm) goes for a run while a couple nearby stops kissing when they notice something startling. Roy helps the guy pull a body out of the water moments later. Cleo Morey (Zoe Tapper) meets with Roy moments later and introduces herself as the new pathology technician. She tells him about her colleague Darren Wardle (Tom Christian) who is also new. Cleo says they can take over from here. She asks Roy if he wants his jacket back since he used it to cover the body, but he decides to leave it. Before he walks away, Cleo says it was kind to cover the victim. The maid arrives to clean the Bishop house. When she makes it upstairs, she finds something that is haunting.

Meanwhile, Kit Bishop (Arthur Darvill) plays golf with his buddies. The media asks Grace for a comment as he enters the Bishop house. DC Nick Nicholl (Brad Morrison) and DS Norman Potting (Craig Parkinson) approach Kit Bishop for a chat. He asks if it can wait since they’re halfway through a golf tournament, but Norman says it can’t wait. Sophie Carrington (Jessye Romeo) leaves work and calls a friend to tell her how she is getting flirty with someone. He turned up out of the blue last night and it quickly turned into Christian Grey. Kit is asked for a rundown of his moments from the last 24 hours. He claims he had dinner with his financial advisor and went back to his flat where he went to bed.

He left around half past six this morning and drove down here. He is asked about his wife. Roy confirms there were no signs of forced entry so he wants all CCTV footage from all surveillance cameras within a two-mile radius. He confirms that the Home Office pathologist is on the way. As Grace walks back inside, we see that Katya Bishop has been tied to the bed and there is a wound to her neck. Joe Tindall (William Andrews) says there is no sign of blowfly activity and they’re quick. He suspects she died within 24 hours. Although the lab will need to confirm it, Joe believes there was sexual activity as well. The restraints feature Somerville bowline knots.

When Joe says blowflies can smell death up to five miles away, Roy looks at the journalists outside. Roy goes into the backyard where he talks to ACC Alison Vosper (Rakie Ayola) about the Bishops. She tells him about International Rostering Solutions which has offices around the world. While Kit races sports cars as a hobby, his wife was a socialite. They’re personal friends of the Police and Crime Commissioner. The Chief Constable doesn’t want them to waste any time. They discuss whether Grace has enough officers for this one. He believes so since DS Glenn Branson (Richie Campbell) is coming back today. She hopes having his playmate back will put a spring in his step.

Glenn talks to a counselor about getting shot and admits it is an experience that he doesn’t want to repeat. He claims he is ready to go and can’t wait to get back to work. He was lucky compared to his colleague. The counselor reminds him that this is about him and not her. Glenn tries to prove that he is ready to return to work since he has completed everything on the tick list. Beth (Shonagh Marie) and Skunk (Joshua J Parker) try car doors to find one that is unlocked before they walk past Sophie. When Sophie calls Kit, she learns about Katya and the fact that Kit is about to go into the police station. He says they keep asking where he was last night. Although Sophie recommends saying he was at her place, Kit admits he doesn’t want to get her involved.

Norman tells Roy that Mr. Bishop seemed like a bloke who learned his wife had been murdered. They joke about Norman’s insight with DS Bella Moy (Laura Elphinstone). Nick and Norman wonder whether Kit’s reaction is shock or he is just a stone-cold killer. Roy enters the interview room where he quickly introduces himself to Kit. He hopes he can help them with some background questions although Kit says he has already a lot of questions. He says they were married for five years and it was a happy marriage. Then, he claims to have slept in his London flat last night and the concierge can vouch for him. Roy asks whether anyone can account for his whereabouts between seven last night and 6:30 this morning.

Kit says he had dinner with his financial advisor that ended around 9:30. Roy continues asking questions until Kit gets upset and says he has been incredibly patient. Kit wants to see his wife and he believes it would be in Roy’s best interest to make that happen. Moments later, Roy watches the interview with Nick and Norman. Glenn joins them and congratulates Nick on his baby. He asks Roy whether Kit did it, but Roy can’t answer that question yet. Bella takes Kit to a motel room and says he’ll be able to see his wife when the post-mortem is concluded. The pathologist tells the detectives that the victim was strangled to death. There are signs that intercourse took place a short time before death.

There are no scratches on the body so she must not have resisted her attacker. Once they finish, Roy talks to Darren who says he likes the variety here. Roy walks over to Cleo as she takes care of the body. He tells her it is very thoughtful what she does. Roy believes it means a lot for the family although Cleo admits it is for the victim really. She claims it is giving something back. After that, Kit asks Bella if he could be alone with his wife. After she leaves the room, Kit begins breaking down so Glenn believes he is hurting. Roy suggests he might know they’re watching. Sophie calls Holly (Rosa Coduri) to tell her about the murder. Roy instructs Bella to keep a close eye on Kit.

He is the good cop so she needs to make him trust her. Although he can’t say whether Kit did it, he admits a spouse will always be a person of interest in a murder case. Cleo comes outside to give the tracksuit top back to Roy since she cleaned it for him. He asks about the body from the water. Cleo says they haven’t gotten an ID on it yet although they’ve sent out the dental records. They’re waiting for a post-mortem to determine the cause of death. After the conversation ends, Glenn tries to find out what that was about, but Roy is elusive. In the car, Roy insists it isn’t like that. Glenn asks why it shouldn’t be since he is allowed to feel something for another human being.

He tells Roy that you can’t be faithful to a ghost. Barty Chancellor (Ben Lambert) watches a news report about the murder of Katya Bishop. Bella brings snacks to Kit only to find his room empty. She notices Roy who immediately tries to call but doesn’t get an answer. Bella says he had an overnight bag and a laptop. Roy asks her to check with taxi drivers to see if any of them saw someone matching Kit’s description. He checks with Norman about CSI from the Bishop house. He says they found computers and phones belonging to the couple. There is one interesting mobile phone message from a withheld number at 10 past 11 yesterday morning.

It is a man saying he’ll see someone later. The phone company is going to get Norman the records as soon as possible. Norman also says they found a car parking ticket bought at 11 minutes past five Thursday afternoon. It corresponds with the petrol receipt they found. They’re waiting for CCTV from the one camera there so Norman is going to speak to the attendant. As for the DNA recovered from the sheets, they’ll have to wait until Monday for the results. Nick interrupts to say a camera picked up Kit’s Jaguar heading toward Brighton last night even though he said he never left London. Once the car passes Crawley, it just disappears from the grid.

When Sophie leaves the restaurant, someone wearing gloves picks up his glasses and leaves. She returns home and gets into the bathtub. A neighbor notices something odd while taking his trash out. Bella tells Glenn and Roy that Kit was picked up by a taxi at the rear of the Holiday Inn two hours ago. They rush to the Hotel du Vin & Bistro which was his destination. The manager gives them access to Kit’s room, but he is nowhere to be found. Kit surprises Sophie by sneaking into her house.

She urges him to tell the police about them. If he was here last night, he couldn’t have been there. Kit learns that she is going out to a party, but he thought they could pick up where they left off. Norman finds out about an abandoned van. Beth and Skunk find the car that they’re looking for and immediately break into it. They drive off in the car moments later. Kit meets with Roberta Vernon (Kelly Gough) and tells her about his day. He believes he should do what the police ask and stay at their motel, but she thinks he should stay upstairs. He admits they’ve got him scared to death since they think he did it.

Holly calls Sophie to say she is worried and will be coming around if she doesn’t hear from her in 15 minutes. Roy finds Glenn looking at the cityscape. Glenn claims he is doing great and is in the best shape of his life. Roy asks him for no more heroics because he doesn’t want any more of that. He encourages him to ease himself back in gently. Glenn complains he has been stuck on that bench for months and is sick of it. After a quick call, Roy says Kit has walked into the front office and he has gotten a lawyer. Glenn asks for a go. In the interview room, Glenn asks him why he checked out of the Holiday Inn. Kit claims one of the police called him, said the room was being staked by journalists, and they were moving him.

Then, he is asked where he went when he checked into the other hotel. Bishop claims he just went for a walk to clear his head and get some air. He had a drink in a bar before he went to Roberta Vernon’s office. Kit is asked whether he knows of anyone who would want to hurt him or his wife. Roberta suggests his wealth and profile would create a lot of enemies for him. She calls them disturbed and says it is almost anyone with access to a screen or social media account. She confirms that they receive threats every day. Roy requests anything they’ve received like that in the past five years. Roberta makes it clear that further questions should be directed to the office of her firm which is where her client will be staying.

A call quickly ends the interview. Next, Roy and the others meet with Holly who tells them about Sophie and her relationship with Kit. He was freaking out because the police thought he had done it, but Sophie said he couldn’t. Kevin Spinella (Alexander Cobb) watches them from a distance. Holly confirms that Kit was with Sophie last night. Sophie told her that Kit turned up out of the blue and it turned into bondage. They go inside where they find Sophie tied to the bed just like Kit’s wife was. Although they need to wait for the post-mortem, there were similarities in terms of the cause of death. Joe confirms the ropes are tied using the same knot. The next day, Bella searches the Bishop house and finds paperwork about a life insurance policy for Katya.

While Skunk tries car doors, Roy speaks to the press about Katya Bishop. Kevin Spinella asks about the young woman murdered last night. Roy says they’re not allowed to talk about that yet. Kevin questions Alison whether Grace will be allowed to consult with a medium if they do not find anything soon. Alison says they will listen to anyone who can provide information and assess to see how that information can help the investigation. He laughs after saying she doesn’t rule it out. Norman goes to the parking ticket machine and finds a ticket for 11/8/2021. He gets a call about the person who left the message on Katya’s phone. He visits the address in question and confronts Barty Chancellor. Roy tells Alison that there is no evidence putting Kit at Sophie’s house yet.

A neighbor saw a man outside of the flat who may or may not be Bishop. He is coming in later and they’re about to question Kit about Sophie. They haven’t been able to find anyone with the name Kit gave when he said they told him he was moving motels. Roy wonders whether Kit is lying since the young woman he was involved with was killed as well. Killing Sophie was either a compulsion or Kit is extremely confident he can get away with murder. Barty confirms that Katya was with him until a quarter to 12 on Thursday evening. He explains that Katya was lonely because her husband was obsessed with work and never around. A charity she was involved with auctioned off one of his paintings.

Norman looks at the topless painting of Katya and learns it takes roughly a week to do something like that. Back in the interview room, Kit claims the name Sophie Carrington doesn’t mean anything to him. Then, he is asked about the life insurance policy he took out on his wife six months ago for four-million pounds. Kit denies that because he doesn’t believe in insurance. He pays people to handle all this while he just signs things. Roberta suggests it might’ve been a requirement of a financial instrument related to the business or something Katya took out herself. When they leave, Roy tells another officer he wants to know if Kit goes anywhere. He doesn’t buy that Katya took out insurance on herself and Kit paid for it but didn’t know about it.

Glenn will get Nick to talk to the financial advisor. They agree that Kit is lying about not knowing Sophie although Roy isn’t ready to push him yet. He wants to have hard evidence so Kit can’t wiggle his way out of it. Glenn wonders why Kit would kill his alibi since he was supposedly at Sophie’s house on the night of his wife’s murder. At the morgue, they learn that Sophie died of asphyxiation and was strangled to death too. There are signs of sexual activity, but it appears that it was not consensual. Cleo shows them a tattoo that Sophie got of the word Veni. It was the same tattoo as Katya although it was likely done in the last 12 to 24 hours. Roy wants to extract a sample of the ink for analysis.

They confirm it has already been done. While exiting, Glenn questions whether Bishop likes to mark his property. He’ll get a tattoo out to the local tattoo artists to see if anyone recognizes the font or handiwork. While Glenn takes a call, Cleo comes out to talk to Roy and see if he wants to go for a drink Roy quickly accepts. She goes inside. Glenn comes back and reveals that Bishop has previous arrests. He had gotten into trouble for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at school. At 20, he was in trouble again for attacking another woman. Roy says they should wait to bring him in. If Kit thinks he is playing with them, they should let him play. Glenn asks if they’re going back to base, but Roy claims he is going to have a word with Nadiuska De Sancha (Carolina Valdes).

He finds out the truth when Cleo comes outside though. Darren watches them from the door as they walk away from the morgue. At the bar, Cleo and Roy talk about accidents, death, and other things. They agree to go get something to eat. Kit tells Roberta that he recently remortgaged one of their houses because there was a brief liquidity issue. She says mortgage companies usually require some type of life insurance. Roberta will talk to his financial advisor about it in the morning. Kit is going to go work on the car to take his mind off things for a while. He asks whether there is a back way out. Later that night, Cleo and Roy agree that this was nice, but she makes it clear she isn’t going to sleep with him tonight.

They laugh about that before Cleo thanks him for not making this a history lesson. She reminds him that he didn’t talk about his past once. Roy says she didn’t either. They have to leave when the restaurant staff prepares to close for the night. Roberta looks at a news article about the murders. When she tries to call Kit, she doesn’t get an answer. Roy walks Cleo home. She would invite him in, but she worries he would wake the goldfish. He tells her about his goldfish. They don’t kiss because Roy ate garlic bread. As Roy leaves, someone seems to be watching Cleo.

In the morning, Cleo thanks Darren for giving her a lift to work. They notice that someone has damaged her vehicle. At the station, Norman tells everyone about the parking ticket and Barty. When Norman talked to him, Barty confirmed he was on the man on Katya’s voicemail. They believe they were having an affair. Norman says there was no love for Kit Bishop although Barty certainly likes the ladies. He tells them about the raunchy paintings and that Barty will be coming in later. He also spoke to one of the wives of Kit’s golfing partners and a good friend of Katya. She thought she was going to give lover boy the Spanish archer or dismissal. Once Barty comes to the station, he claims that Katya was going to leave her husband.

Although he wasn’t physically violent, Kit is a very nasty piece of work. Barty claims he was very cruel, obsessive, and jealous. He admits he didn’t have an alibi for after Katya left since it was nearly midnight and he went to sleep. Roy asks about Katya wanting to break off the relationship. If she was, it is the first Barty had heard of it. He denies that she broke it off on Thursday night and instead says they were going to spend their lives together. We see a cleaner heading to work. Later, Roy hears Alison telling a crying woman she can go home if necessary. She tells Roy that the body pulled out of the water has just been identified using dental records. She reveals that the woman’s name was Julia Abbot and she was stabbed before she went into the water. He remembers her as the head of the PNC department who went on vacation.

She was getting married. They are trying to notify the fiancé. Cleo asks Darren if he could follow her back and help her put the hardtop on her car. He says anything for her. Norman shows the others the CCTV footage showing Katya stop at a gas station. He shows them the headlights of a van that was dumped in Lewes later. The van belongs to a spray painting company. He says Mrs. Stacey has her daughters in the back. One is sleeping while the other looks at Katya’s car and notices a man with a mask on in the backseat. She was in the car across from Katya’s. The girl didn’t mention it at the time. However, she was awoken with nightmares about a man with a scary face ever since. The man who owns the van confirmed a gas mask was taken from it.

The full-head respirator that he used for painting was the only thing that had gone missing. The cleaner opens the door to a man carrying a toolbox. At the station, the detectives theorize whether Roy or Barty killed Katya. When Glenn asks who would be more likely to know the Somerville knot, Norman mentions that Barty strings his own frames. The financial advisor got back to Nick. The receipt from the restaurant bill is timestamped at 9:57. He said he put Kit in a taxi for his flat around 10. Roy believes he’d be at home by 10:20 and would have to get from there to the ANPR camera on the M23 by 10:47. Glenn suggests it could be done since Kit is a racer. Roy wants to get a team to test it.

The concierge said he helped Kit load his golf clubs around 6:30. As for the life insurance, the financial advisor said it was done privately if Kit took out the insurance on his wife. When Roy goes looking for Kit, he learns that he has left Roberta’s property. She won’t say where he is although she offers to see if he’d agree to an appointment. Roy wants him down at the station so he can be formally interviewed. The maid looks around and sees money and keys nearby. As Roy looks through the evidence, he calls Cleo who tells him about her car. She invites him over later. She hears something in the morgue and begins yelling for them. Cleo tells Roy she’ll see him tonight before ending the call.

She grabs a weapon to defend herself. Darren scares her moments later and says he had his earbuds in so he couldn’t hear her. Kit is questioned about his juvenile conviction. He denies the juvenile sexual assault and GBH on another woman too. Then, he is confronted about his relationship with Sophie since they have phone records to prove they talked frequently. Kit says he met her at a conference. It was flirtation but that is all. He denies sleeping with her although Holly said he showed up at her flat in the early morning hours of Friday and did. Kit says he told Sophie about Katya and that they suspected him when he last saw her. In return, she instructed him to tell the detectives that he was with her.

When asked why he didn’t, Kit says it wasn’t true and he thought she was just making up an alibi because she had a crush on him. He thought it was better to tell the truth when dealing with the police. Glenn asks about Katya having an affair. Kit asks whether it was the artist. He suspected and feared that but did not know for certain. Kit insists he didn’t want to kill his wife. Nick shows them the drawing of the man the neighbor saw outside of Sophie’s house. They agree it looks like Bishop, but they can’t bring him in yet. Glenn says they have witnesses who place Kit in London on either side of his wife’s murder. An ANPR camera puts him elsewhere heading south. Roy says their team made the same run and managed it by the skin of their teeth using lights and sirens.

Roy argues they need to make their pieces fit because it won’t stand up in court otherwise. Cleo opens a bottle of wine while Skunk notices one of the cars they’ve been looking for. Beth tells him not to look as they drive by the owner’s house. Cleo looks outside and sees someone breaking into her car. He refuses to unlock the door when she comes out. Instead, he starts the vehicle and it blows up. When Roy arrives, he comforts Cleo while two cops work on the suspect. At the station, Nick shows them a picture of their car thief and identifies him as Skunk. There is no question that the vehicle was sabotaged. Whoever did this intended to kill the driver.

Roy questions Cleo to see if she knows anyone who’d want to harm her. She admits there was a guy who was weird after they broke up but that was years ago. As for Skunk, he is in the burn unit and it could go either way. Cleo says this isn’t her world or the way she lives. Roy has asked for extra uniformed patrols at her house and the morgue to keep her safe. He promises they’ll find them and come back tonight before leaving. We see someone creating a key. Roy returns to the Bishop house where he looks through the trash and finds a meter reading report. When he hears a noise nearby, he goes looking for the source. He finds Kit and tells him that he really shouldn’t be here.

He is there to get a fresh set of clothes and a watch. Roy says he’ll need to go through them first. While he does, they talk about him being an evil creature or deeply disturbed individual. Kit asks whether it was someone with a genuine grievance, but Roy insists nothing justifies murder. Mr. Bishop reveals he has been reading about Roy. He wonders if he’d want to kill the person who killed his wife if that person was in front of him. Roy isn’t sure she is dead, but he’d like to think he’d have the strength to do the right thing. Bishop asks whether it would be the right thing by law or nature. He wouldn’t think twice if someone hurt him in that way.

Grace doubts Bobby Vernon would want that. Bishop thought he was talking about Bobby Farnon. He apologizes and admits it has been a rough couple of days. Roy finishes checking the clothes and asks him to leave. Next, Roy goes to Lorna (Amelia Armande) to see if she’ll look up Kit’s criminal record. He gives her his condolences for Julia as well. She didn’t have any family and her fiancé was married. She would only say that he was married and well off. Lorna finds the same records they already knew about. When she learns that he is denying them, she says there is an electronic footprint whenever these records are changed.

It appears Julia changed it. Roy talks to Glenn and Nick about it later and they wonder if Julia might’ve reinstated his criminal record. Glenn wonders if Kit was Julia’s boyfriend and he buttered her up to get her to remove his criminal record, but he doesn’t know why she’d put it back. They speculate that she found out about his true nature and changed it. Then, they argued about it and he killed her. Bella says she has put together Kit’s movement on the night of Sophie’s murder and something is off. CCTV footage shows him going in the opposite direction of Sophie’s house. He was spotted again outside the Archers. The evidence makes it hard to believe he was outside of Sophie’s house at eight.

Roy wonders if Kit had an accomplice instead. When they question him about his family, Kit says he was an adopted only child and only found out after his mother died while going through her papers. Roy asks whether he knows Julia Abbot. He says no so Roy won’t tell him anything else about her. Although Katya found his original birth certificate, it wasn’t a rock he wanted to look under. They find it in the safe where he told them to look. It saw Desmond William Matthews. The time of birth was 3:47 AM. Roy believes that is it since the time is only put down in England and Wales when there are multiple births. They also find an adoption notice for Fredrick Matthews. The notice tells them Fredrick’s adoptive parents with the mother being Joan Talbot.

Kit Bishop has a twin brother. When they meet with Joan (Gwyneth Powell), she tells them that Fred was premature and his lungs were underdeveloped. He had bad asthma. Joan only knows his twin brother’s name Desmond and he died. She clarifies that this is what they were told by social services. As for Freddy, he went to a party, had a bad asthma attack, and his heart gave out. Outside, Roy says the social services claim the twin died sometimes so the adoptive parents won’t know about the twin. Glenn reveals the DNA from both crime scenes is a 100% match for Kit Bishop. At the station, Alison tells Roy that the case is watertight and nobody could change Kit’s DNA.

Glenn is going to bring him in so Roy can see a man about a car. When Roy goes to the hospital to see Skunk, he runs into Beth and asks why they went for that particular car. She admits they were told to get that specific model. Roy finds it odd that they followed the guy until he parked the car. She tells him how it pulled out of an alleyway. Roy goes to the alleyway and calls Bella to see if she knows anything about a lockup around there. She finds a flag for a tattoo parlor there and many hits for the ink used for  Sophie’s tattoo. She says something about Jecks. Roy returns to the newspaper articles about Arthur Jecks who hung himself before the trial. Another article says innocent lives were ruined by Jeck’s foster home cruelty.

She is asked to get a warrant and check into Jecks because Roy thinks there is a connection to Roberta Vernon. Kit is arrested in front of Roberta while Roy breaks into the building nearby. Roy finds a car with multiple plates and newspaper articles about Bishop on the wall. Another article says 45-year-old Arthur Jecks was a summer camp guide who has been accused of child cruelty. He remembers the exact copy he had. Then, he finds the key container and meter reading papers. On the wall, there is a picture of Cleo with a note that says she works at the morgue and lives alone. He rushes to her house while trying to call her, but she can’t hear the phone over the hairdryer. She answers and is instructed to put on the safety chain and stay put until he is there.

She turns around and finds a man in front of her wearing a gas mask saying that is good advice. She flees upstairs after a brief scuffle. The man stops chasing her when Roy rings the doorbell. Cleo yells that he is here after Roy breaks in. As he tries to climb the stairs, the man in the mask kicks him and begins strangling him downstairs. Roy removes the mask to disclose a man who looks just like Kit. Cleo jumps on the man’s back to help him. Roy chases him to the station and up multiple ladders. Once Roy catches up with him, the man grabs him and ties him up by his neck with a hook. He tells Roy that he called him an evil creature.

As the killer climbs down the wall with the rope, it chokes Roy until he frees the rope from the grappling hook. The man crashes to his death. At the station, Alison learns from Roy that there were three brothers. Jecks worked in software. He left three days after Bishop took out life insurance on his wife. Both criminal offenses were recorded by Julia at Jecks’s request. He was posing as Bishop while he was involved with Julia. Roy believes Jecks was jealous of Kit since one died, one survived, and one was damned. Norman went to a man who should’ve never had any child. Roy meets with Norman moments later and suspects he was at the house getting clothes.

Norman admits someone confused him for Bishop in a bar, he said yes, and that is how it all started. He had a little sister. When Arthur was doing it to him, he thought at least he isn’t doing it to her. Later on, he realized Arthur did it to all the boys and girls who came through the house. Arthur was an evil creature more so than him. He always knew something was missing, but he didn’t start looking into it until someone mistook him for Kit Bishop. He tried to contact his brother at his company and only got a letter threatening legal action even though he wanted nothing from him. He figured he’d share the pain and fear with his brother. Roy says he killed Katya and Sophie who never did him any harm. Norman says he doesn’t get it.

If you want to hurt someone, you hurt someone they love instead of them. His father taught him that. When Roy talks to Kit, he says Jecks is no more his brother than Roy is. Although Roy says nobody will see him again, Kit says he will. He’ll see him in the mirror and remember his wife died thinking he killed her. Roy believes there is fury in Jecks’s eye so Katya would’ve known it wasn’t him. Later, Glenn talks to Roy about Cleo who he says is nice. Glenn admits he and his wife think it is good that he is moving on and he is doing nothing against Sandy’s memory. Cleo decides to move into Roy’s place until she gets things sorted out. They kiss down by the water.

 

Grace Review

Grace is back for a second season with a slightly outlandish opening episode. While running in the morning, Grace stumbles upon a body in the water nearby. It will later be connected to the murder of socialite Katya Bishop. Katya’s husband, Kit, is the perfect suspect since he is wealthy and arrogant. Another woman named Sophie, who just happens to be linked to Kit, ends up dead as well.

While everyone seems convinced that Kit is the killer, Roy is not. Even when his DNA matches both crime scenes. Of course, Kit is not the killer. It is one of his two twin brothers. The brother who led a hellacious life due to his adoptive abusive father decided to get revenge on Kit for having a wealthy, comfortable life with the Bishop family.

He ends up killing three women and nearly killing Cleo and Roy before the episode is over. We can see that the writers are trying to do something different this season. Adding new characters such as Cleo and Kevin could help make the new few episodes interesting.

However, the first episode of season two just had too many coincidences and red herrings. I said it about the first season and I’ll say it again. The episode was needlessly long. We can clearly see the writers struggling to fill the time slot with one case. The whole car theft ring with Beth and Skunk fell although I would’ve liked to have seen more of both, especially Skunk. I expected more from Kevin Spinella as well, but he only asked two or three questions.

Instead, all the revelations about the triplets were hastily thrown into the last 15 or 20 minutes. The episode was moody and atmospheric at times. The story and execution just aren’t strong enough to hold the viewer’s attention or prevent them from rolling their eyes a bit too often. The episode scores a 6 out of 10.

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