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Shetland Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
2 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
Red Bones: Part 1
Sun, Mar 10, 201353 mins
As the Shetland Isles prepare for the tourists coming for the Up-Helly-Aa festival Jimmy Perez investigates the murder of elderly Mima Wilson, shot dead outside her croft. An archaeological dig was taking place on Mima's land and team member Hattie James tells Perez Mima was upset when a piece of skull was unearthed by Mima's niece Jackie Haldane. Perez learns from Jackie that Mima was also unwilling to sell her land to developer Duncan Hunter, in which she was opposed by her son Joseph. Jackie's drunkard son Ronald is also a suspect and is beaten up by mystery attackers. Perez also discovers that in World War Two Mima's husband and Jackie's father Andrew, now an invalid, helped refugees from Norway escape the Nazis, one bearing the same surname as the dig's leader, Paul Berglund. Then Hattie is killed as she is about to tell Perez something.
Episode 2
Red Bones: Part 2
53 mins
When no other prints are found on the knife that killed Hattie, suicide is the first thought as her mother says she was prone to depression. However Perez discovers that she had had a fling with Berglund, which could jeopardise his dig. Perez matches a necklace Hattie was holding to one in an old photograph of Mima with Per Lungstad,one of the Norwegian escapees in the war. Per was supposedly drowned but no body found. However the list of suspects grows as Perez discovers that Berglund was also having an affair with Ronald's wife Anna, a fact Mima could have seen and that Ronald was in debt to Duncan Hunter. Ultimately, Perez learns that Mima was upset to see the body being dug up on the archaeological site, reminding her of a secret love affair from over sixty years ago. Ailing Andrew Haldane supplies Perez with some of the facts but as the crowds gather for Up-Helly-Aa, Perez must work out the precise link between past and present and the reason for Mima and Hattie being murdered.
