Synopsis

Humiliated after a release on bail, DS De Costa returns to Sun Hill. DC Perkins speeds to Margaret Barnes’s house, finding her in a state of increasing distress and contemplating suicide. His intervention to stop her results in a violent attack; he is stabbed and critically injured. PCSO Laura Bryant is struck by a young man making deliveries for a drug operation. Meanwhile, PCs Dan and Stamp pursue an ingenious graffiti artist who employs cleaning solutions to create bleak imagery on the town’s