Jo Gillespie (Sheridan Smith) has an undercover cop, Ryan (Kenny Doughty) for a husband, with whom she has a daughter and a stepson. His frequent absences from her life have led to her seeking solace with one of his colleagues (Matthew McNulty). She decides to give her marriage another go, but before she can do anything about it, he is found shot dead in an empty warehouse. She'd believed he was at a football match (that went on all night...?) and so she begins a quest to find out who her dead husband really was and how he died. Unsurprisingly, the police aren't too keen, especially as it soon becomes clear that they aren't too sure what he was doing either.
The post-mortem discovery of a loved one's secret life is hardly a new formula, but there's plenty of basis in reality for the scenario, at least, with recent news stories and trials concerning cops undercover for years, going 'native', having relationships and even children. Difficult to tell whether this will be credible, as so far there have been a few implausibilities or handy coincidences (surveillance teams would go to the trouble of putting bugged conversations on CD, of all things? Said CDs are stowed in the airing cupboard? Obliging lover leaks information about dead hubby's undercover identity? Same dead hubby has a hideout his bosses haven't investigated?). The next two parts could give us explanations for these things, and the cast is strong enough to keep us watching to find out. In addition, there's some nice footage of Leeds and West Yorkshire as neither the grim Northern hell nor the American-sell gloss usually depicted.
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