Ashes to Ashes returns to BBC One at 9pm on Monday April 20th – and DS Alex Drake is still trapped in 1982...
Series one ended with Alex finally finding out ho her parents came to be in a car bomb – series 2 moves on a year, against the background of the Faklands War with Argentina. Corruption is rife in the Metropolitan Police force, but supercop Detective Superintendent “Supermac” Macintosh has been put charge of DCI Gene Hunt’s team, with a view to stopping the rot.
Episode 1 sees Hunt and Drake discovering that a dead man in a Soho strip club is in fact a dead police constable – working with the vice squad.
Foul play is suspected when the dead man’s wife insists that her husband would not have been seduced by the world of vice – leading Alex Drake and Gene Hunt to conclude that the killer was one of their own.
Meanwhile Alex has settled into life in the 1980s – but not enough to stop dreaming of returning home to 2008, and her daughter. Who will replace the David Bowie clown in Alex’s hallucinations? Why is she hearing news from the future? And who is the mysterious stranger, also seemingly trapped in 1982?
Ashes to Ashes is one of the crown jewels of the new season on BBC One which also comprises a raft of solid new drama and comedy. Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes star as DCI Gene Hunt and DS Alex Drake, while DS Ray Carling is played by Dean Andrews and DC Chris Skelton by Marshall Lancaster.
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