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DCI Banks Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Strange Affair: Part 1
48 mins
With Annie due for maternity leave icily efficient inspector Helen Morton joins Banks' team to investigate the murder of Jennifer Lewis,shot dead in her car,where Banks' address is also discovered on a scrap of paper. Banks himself disappears following an answer phone message for help from his wide boy brother Roy,but Roy is missing from home and neither Corinne,his girl-friend,or his father Arthur know of his whereabouts. His business partner Gareth Lambert tells Banks that Roy was having an affair with Jennifer and CCTV from the garage where she bought petrol an hour before her murder shows Jennifer with Roy. Whilst Helen Morton is questioning Banks the news comes in that Roy has been shot dead with the same gun that killed Jennifer Lewis.
Episode 2
Strange Affair: Part 2
48 mins
The police discover that Jennifer and Roy were involved in a prostitution ring. Roy was importing women through his travel agency, although business partner Lambert claims ignorance. Because he is related to a victim, Banks is taken off the case but D.I. Morton agrees to let him help in an advisory role, warning him he may be in danger. He seeks out Carmen, the face of the escort agency fronting the prostitution racket and finds that she is pregnant. That pregnancy, linked to a baby-selling arrangement, holds the key to the double murders.
Episode 3
Dry Bones That Dream: Part 1
48 mins
Keith Rothwell,an unassuming accountant with an overbearing wife Mary, is dragged from the family home and his head blown off by a masked intruder. Nothing is stolen. However musician Pamela Jefferies comes forward to say that she knew Rothwell as her married lover, Robert Calvert. Banks is not pleased when he meets DCI Burgess,an arrogant colleague at police college. He is investigating possible corruption by MP Martin Fleming. Solicitor Daniel Norcliffe disappears and Burgess believes he may be a link between Fleming and Rothwell in a money laundering fiddle. Then Pamela is savagely attacked.
Episode 4
Dry Bones That Dream: Part 2
45 mins
Banks defies orders by informally speaking to Martin Fleming on his own, though he gets no results. Tom Rothwell returns from America for his father's funeral and tells the police he fell out with his father after seeing him with another woman. Pamela identifies her attacker as a rough-looking Irishman named by police records as Arthur Jameson, an arms fan and former client of Norcliffe, but Jameson kills himself before he can be questioned. Following Tom's information, Banks discovers that the woman in question was not Pamela. The trail leads to a house where all is revealed - including a money laundering scheme which justifies Banks' suspicions. The case closed, Helen at last begins to integrate with the rest of the team.
Episode 5
Innocent Graves: Part 1
48 mins
Teenager Ellie Clayton is strangled on her way home from rehearsing a play with her drama group. A witness saw a blue car near the murder scene and next day a young man torches a blue car. Simon Harris,business partner of Ellie's Internet entrepreneur father Daniel,tells Banks he believes Ellie had a boyfriend unknown to the family though her friend Becca disputes this. Owen Pierce,director of the theatre group is arrested. His alibi is unreliable and a former girlfriend claims he is rough and possessive though Owen points the police to ex-group member Tyler Judd - the boy who burned the car. However Pierce is charged with murder and appears in court but a clever barrister highlights procedural errors and he is discharged.
Episode 6
Innocent Graves: Part 2
45 mins
Banks gets a call-out to Owen Pierce's house, which has been vandalised whilst Owen was in prison, but Banks makes it clear he still believes Owen was the killer. However, after Helen has seen CCTV footage of Ellie getting into a car with somebody who is not Owen Pierce, Becca comes forward to say that Tyler Judd sexually threatened her and was perpetually shadowing Ellie after she dumped him. Then Becca is found dead in the same spot as Ellie. Focus now switches to Judd, who admits to stealing Simon Harris's car after Simon warned him off Ellie. This in turn leads to the discovery of some incriminating photographs and the identity of the murderer.