Case Sensitive
Returning from a Swiss business trip, executive Mark Bretherick finds the dead bodies of his wife Geraldine and daughter in the bathtub. It looks like a suicide, but there's no note or known motive. Country police chief Proust gives the case to recent London transferee, detective sergeant Charlie Zailer. Lacking confidence, she ignores the advice of veteran DC Simon Waterhouse, imagining a conspiracy. Bretherick gets a visit from a strange woman who claims to have had an affair with a man using Mark's name.
- 2011-2012
- 2 seasons
- Suspense
Returning from a Swiss business trip, executive Mark Bretherick finds the dead bodies of his wife Geraldine and daughter in the bathtub. It looks like a suicide, but there's no note or known motive. Country police chief Proust gives the case to recent London transferee, detective sergeant Charlie Zailer. Lacking confidence, she ignores the advice of veteran DC Simon Waterhouse, imagining a conspiracy. Bretherick gets a visit from a strange woman who claims to have had an affair with a man using Mark's name.
Season 2 Episode Guide
2 Episodes 2012
Episode 1
The Other Half Lives: Part 1
47 mins
Ruth Blacksmith prepares to divorce estranged husband Jason to marry the younger Aidan Harper,despite Aidan's confession that he once 'hurt a woman,who later died',named Mary Trelease. Unbeknown to Ruth Jason and Aidan had fought and now Jason is found murdered,his sister suspecting Aidan,who has no alibi. Aidan is also evasive when Ruth questions him about Mary so she follows him and sees him embrace another woman,after which he flees. Returning to their house Ruth locks him out when he comes after her but forensic evidence leads Charlie to arresting Ruth as the killer.
Episode 2
The Other Half Lives: Part 2
Charlie confronts Ruth with the knowledge that she was in Jason's house on the day he died,forcing Ruth to admit they had sex but she left him alive. As Charlie releases her she explains how she saw Aidan with the mysterious woman,who,Aidan tells the police,is his step-sister,Mary Trelease. In interview Mary confirms this and believes Aidan said she was dead to put his past behind him. However Simon finds out that Aidan's drunken,abusive step-mother was also named Mary Trelease,who supposedly fell downstairs and accidentally died. Thus both Mary and Aidan are seen as potential killers and Charlie and Simon,now lovers,must discover which,if either,murdered Jason Blacksmith.