A Mother's Son

- Season 1

(2012)

Rosie is a successful shopkeeper in the Suffolk resort town of East Lee,mother of teens Jamie and Olivia and married to widowed Ben,who also has two children. After missing schoolgirl Lorraine Mullary is found stabbed Rosie is appalled to find Jamie has hidden his blood-stained trainers behind his bed and somebody has used the washing machine secretly. Unwilling to share her suspicions with Ben she confides in Jamie's father,ex-husband David. He tells her that he has discovered that Jamie is friendly with the older Sean Christie, a drop-out with a conviction for ...

Rosie finds herself growing more distanced from Ben and confiding more in David though she eventually tells Ben her suspicions. They then find the dead girl's mobile phone in Jamie's room but he explains that she dropped it and he was going to return it to her,dissuading them from going to the police. Sean Christie is arrested but freed as he has a cast-iron alibi and,with the family now torn apart,Ben moves out with his children whilst Rosie tracks down Jamie,who has run away,and learns what really happened.