DCI Banks: Season One - DVD [Standard]

In season two, Banks must deal with dramatic changes to his team as the impossible-to-read Helen Morton (Caroline Catz, DOC MARTIN) enlists as his new partner. This season, Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother and the inspector himself is linked to a murder. An ordinary accountant is found murdered and his double life is discovered; as Morton closes in on his killer her life is danger. When a teenage girl is found strangled, Banks is certain he's found her murderer, but can he trust his instincts?

English detective DCI Alan Banks returns in this fourth series of the popular crime drama with three new, original stories. In What Will Survive, DCI Banks struggles to cope with the sudden death of his mother, as he investigates the murder of a young Estonian woman and the disappearance of her drug-dependent sister. In Buried, Banks must navigate difficult emotional territory when the body of an eminent lawyer is washed up in an underground river and he suspects a member of her grieving family is responsible for her death. In Ghosts, the body of a university student is found dumped in a ravine. His friends claim he was a model undergraduate, but officers Annie and Ken soon discover that he had a double life manufacturing ecstasy.

A DCI Banks returns for it's grittiest season yet with an explosive serial crime story that weaves through all six episodes. When the victim of a frenzied attack is found in woodland, the team wonder if it s a random killing or related to the location a shrine to a local girl who recently committed suicide there. But when Banks uncovers a link to local crime boss Steve Richards, he formulates a theory of his own. Elsewhere what starts out as a missing person s case soon escalates into a kidnap and ransom. And Banks and the team have a painful job finding out how a recent tragedy occurred. While Chief Superintendent Anderson puts pressure on DI Helen Morton to close the case, Banks becomes increasingly certain this is all down to one man crime boss Steve Richards.