Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 11 Episodes

Episode 1

Going Wrong: Part 1

60 mins

When Guy and Leonora meet again after several years, Guy finds that his love for her has not changed. When they were teenagers, they were madly in love, involving themselves in ever more serious pranks. When one of their friends is killed however, she decides she doesn't want to see him anymore. Having met again, Guy's obsession begins to grow. They agree to have lunch every Saturday and they speak on the phone every day, but for Guy, it isn't enough. For Leonora, Guy is suffocating and she doesn't want the same intense relationship as him. When she tells him that she is in love someone she met some years before at university and that they are going to be married, he explodes in anger.

Episode 2

Going Wrong: Part 2

52 mins

Guy's obsession continues to grow and he convinces himself that it is those around around Leonora who have turned her against him. When he and his on-again\off-again girlfriend Celeste bump into Leonora and her fiancée William, his insecurities come to the fore. As his own fantasies grow, he finds himself accused by Lenora's mother of trying to kill her son. Turns out she had it right.

Episode 3

Going Wrong: Part 3

52 mins

Invited to Leonora and William's for dinner, Guy goes mad when he learns that they will be moving to Manchester and attacks William. He's subsequently surprised when Leonora asks him to spend a Saturday with her but is aghast when owing to a mis-communication, his friend Danny tells him of the hit he has arranged on Rachel. When Leonora fails to appear for their lunch on Saturday, he realizes it was all a ploy. Drifting in and out of fantasy, he decides to seek revenge.

Episode 4

Road Rage: Part One

180 mins

DCI Reg Wexford and DI Burden has to deal with a group of eco-activists who have set up an elaborate camp in a wooded area in the hopes of stopping the construction of a major road, the Kingsmarkham bypass. Some of the activists will go to any length to have it stopped including setting traps for the construction crews such as spiking trees. Their leader is a somewhat imposing figure who will only identify himself as King of the Wood. Tensions are growing between the workers and the protesters who are forcibly evicted and forced out of their camp. Meanwhile, Burden is investigating the case of a missing German girl, Ulrike Ranke who seems to have vanished into thin air. The girl's father has taken to living in Kingsmarkham and contacts Burden regularly on the status of the case. When they find her body in the woods Burden's instinct tells him he's dealing with a murder. They trace her to a pub where she'd called a taxi but the driver who picked her up, Trotter, is clearly hiding something. The Wexfords are once again grandparents but Reg is worried sick when Dora fails to arrive at their daughter Sheila's house. None of the taxi firms have any record of collecting someone at their house. When a second and then a third person who were to travel to London are reported missing, it's evident the disappearances are connected. In total 5 people are missing and all have been taken hostage by environmental terrorists calling themselves Sacred Globe.

Episode 5

Road Rage: Part Two

Although overjoyed that she has been released by the eco-terrorists, Dora Wexford seems more interested in the fate her fellow hostages than her newly-born granddaughter.She worries about the claustrophobic Roxanne, who has been beaten and locked in a closet and young Ryan, whom she feels guilty at having left alone when she was released. All the vanished victims, including the dead German girl, seem to have ordered a taxi from a particular cab company. Dora blames Reg when Roxanne's dead body is found near the taxi stand and young Ryan apparently succumbs to Stockholm syndrome and joins the terrorists. A suspension of the construction of the bypass is seen as a way to save the remaining hostages by the Home Office, but Wexford believes that there may be a mole in the department and there is more behind these events than just saving a stand of old growth trees.

Episode 6

You Can't Be Too Careful

60 mins

Della Galway has just started a new job and and is quite pleased with her new flat. It's is a quiet, low-crime neighborhood and the landlady is as security conscious as she is. The only problem is the the rent is a bit high so she advertises for a roommate at work. Rosamund has just split up with her live-in boyfriend and decides to move in with Della. The two couldn't be more different however with free spirit Rosamund unable to understand Della's near fanaticism about locking doors and windows. It all comes to a head when Rosamund brings her new boyfriend home late one night.

Episode 7

The Orchard Walls

60 mins

During World War II a London teenager, Jenny, is sent to spend the summer in the countryside where she will be safe. Staying with relatives she has not seen since she was a young child is initially daunting, but they are basically a kind family and they treat her well. One of her uncles is serving in North Africa and his very pretty wife is clearly unhappy. As events unfold, Jenny learns that she is having an affair. Jenny herself is at a age where romance is important and she develops a crush on a recuperating RAF pilot. As these complex relationships develop, tragedy ensues.

Episode 8

The Lake of Darkness: Part 1

52 mins

Martin Urban seems to be a very lucky man indeed. He had just been made a partner in his accounting firm and most of all, he's won £1.8 million in the national lottery. He decides to share his luck by giving some of his winnings to those in need such as the lady in the corner shop whose son requires an urgent operation. He also meets Francesca, a very pretty shop girl who delivers him flowers one day. Over time, he falls for her even after he learns that she is married and has a 3 year-old daughter. Her husband is a brute from all accounts and he purchases her a flat when she tells him she will be moving out. His attempt at giving away some of his money has run into a number of snags. What he does not see coming is the intersection of his attempt to give money to his mother's needy friend and Francesca's lack of truthfulness, which leads to death.

Episode 9

The Lake of Darkness: Part 2

52 mins

Episode 10

The Fallen Curtain

60 mins

When Richard was 8 years old, he disappeared for several hours leading to panic at home and a frantic search by the police. When he turns up unhurt everything is fine until he mentions he went for a ride with a man in his car. His mother assumes he was molested, even though there is no physical evidence to corroborate that. By the time he is 18, Richard is haunted by those events, even though he still remembers nothing. When he visits the site where his troubles all began and sees a young boy playing there, he invites the lad to go for a ride in his car. Slowly, he begins to recall the events of that fateful day