Don’t You Forget About Me – The episode begins in the past with Josh Buchanan (Ashley Walters) showing Aqua Vanech (Mary Malone) where he is going to propose to DI Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar).
In the present, Aqua defends attacking Brendan Fells (Oscar Kennedy) by claiming that she thought he was spreading lies about Josh. After the interrogation, Kat takes Aqua back to her place and puts her to sleep. Stacey Embalo (Jessica Plummer) shows up minutes after Aqua falls asleep. As she and Kat talk, it is revealed that it was Stacey who actually saw and followed Josh that day at yoga class. She claims that she told Josh to leave Kat alone and he left. Kat doesn’t take this very well and storms off.
Charlie Pitts (Charlie Hamblett) calls Kat to tell her that the Swiss account Dana Fells (Lisa Faulkner) paid into was flagged by a financial advisor, Ashkan ‘Chewie’ Chuback (Arian Nik). Kat asks for the address so they can meet there. Charlie is hesitant but eventually sends it to her. Charlie and Kat soon find out that Ashkan is nothing more than an incredibly smart teenager working out of his mother’s garage. It takes a bit of convincing but they get him to admit that he flagged the account after his client, Rishi Magari (Rudi Dharmalingam), met a woman on a dating app and sent half his portfolio to her. After doing a reverse image search of the woman, Ashkan tracked Vanessa (GK Barry) back to a cam girl site.
Immediately after leaving Ashkan’s house, Charlie receives and ignores a call from DCI Ellis Stagger (Richard Armitage). After getting the voicemail, Stagger questions Nia Emine (Catherine Ayers) about Charlie’s whereabouts. She claims that he’s at a training seminar and will be there all day.
Reynaldo (Felix Garcia Guyer) takes Dana to meet with Titus Monroe (Steve Pemberton), who claims she didn’t give him access to all her accounts. When she asks what he is talking about, he says she didn’t give him access to Brendan’s trust fund. She says that isn’t her money and Brendan has to sign off on all transactions. Plus, the money is Brendan’s future. At this point, Titus goes off on a tangent about a dog’s love being the purest form of love and how true love is a myth. He ends by telling her that he is giving her a gift.
When Charlie speaks with the cam girl and learns that she hasn’t spoken to Rishi, he and Kat surmise that Rishi and Dana were likely being catfished. They also figure that Josh’s photo was being used to lure unsuspecting victims just as Vanessa’s photo was used to lure Rishi. With a dating app being linked to two disappearances, Kat tells Charlie that he has to get Stagger involved. Much to his surprise, she says she’s taking a backseat and going to use the free time to try to track down Josh through some old articles she found. He tells her to use AI Text Compare, a program that links similar writing styles.
Later that day, after Kat links Josh’s articles to an online handle, ‘The Honest Aspect,’ she calls Stacey for assistance. Stacey realizes that the account has 25,000 paid followers, which means the money paid in is going to a real account somewhere that she should be able to track down. She tells Kat to give her a few hours and she will have the account. Once the two part ways, Kat receives a text from Charlie about running into problems with the fingerprints from Clint Donovan’s (Lenny Henry) murder weapon.
Sometime later Kat visits her auntie in search of more answers about Clint’s affair. Kat not only learns the identity of Clint’s mistress as Parker (Cyril Nri), but she learns that there was possibly more to the relationship than just a casual fling. Kat’s auntie even suspects that Parker might have had something to do with his demise.
At nearly the same time, Titus learns that his Swiss account has been frozen. When Titus asks Reynaldo if anything out of the ordinary has happened, he tells him that last week someone might have recognized one of the photos they used. This happened to be Kat and that was why she was blocked. Titus immediately recognizes her from the press conference about Rishi but he also realizes she referred to the man in the picture as Josh. That likely means she recognizes him and isn’t trying to entrap them. Before Reynaldo and Titus leave to track down Kat, he tells Clem (Kieran Burton) to cull number six, meaning Dana.
After leaving the meeting with her Auntie, Kat receives a call from Stacey telling her that Josh slipped up when he first opened the account and linked it to a PO Box 578 in Hatherport, under the name Reggie Cross. Stacey says that she can be in Hatherport in just a few hours, but Kat opts to go. Once there, Kat tells the clerk that she is collecting for box 241 and gives her identification. When the clerk is gone, she checks the logbook and learns that Josh collects his mail on the same day and time every week. Kat claims that she is collecting her neighbor’s mail and forgot to bring their identity when the clerk returns.
When someone finally shows up to collect on box 578, it isn’t Josh, but Kat follows him home anyway. At his house, she knocks on the door and asks if Reggie Cross or Josh Buchanan is there. The man doesn’t recognize either name and eventually becomes so frustrated with her that he shuts the door in her face. Just as Kat is about to leave, she notices a kid, Sadie Cross (Amelie Dokubo) playing by the lake. Before she can act someone places a black bag over her head.
Kat is taken to meet Dominic Calligan (James Nesbitt) at what appears to be a museum. Kat comes right out and asks if he killed her father. He says that he didn’t. He also says that he didn’t do half the things that people in town have been accusing him of for decades. After a bit of back-and-forth, Calligan tells Kat that he liked Clint and wouldn’t have killed him because he was an asset. He also tells her that Monte LeBurne (Marc Warren) didn’t kill her father because he came to Calligan and asked him if he could confess to the crime. Calligan is surprised when she asks him about Parker but promises to help her find her.
As Kat is driven back to her car, Clem prepares to kill Dana. He is distracted when a dog comes in with a piece of driftwood. When he pets the dog, it drops the driftwood, so he no longer perceives it as a threat. When he goes back to his tool, the dog picks the wood back up and takes it toward Dana. Dana then fakes an injury and uses the wood to hit Clem and escape.
By the time Kat meets Sadie, the whole farm begins searching for Dana. When Kat tells Sadie that she is trying to find Reggie Cross or Josh Buchanan, she asks her dad why the woman is asking about him. This is where the episode ends.
Missing You Review
This was probably one of the better episodes of the series, except for the stupid escape. I know people are human and prone to making mistakes and Clem didn’t look like the smartest guy, but my god! It wasn’t just the fact that Dana escaped but the way she escaped. It made the whole sophisticated operation look like the Mickey Mouse brigade. The bit with Calligan and Kat was somewhat of a letdown, but everything was decent. I’d give this episode a 6.1 out of 10.
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