Marcella

- Season 2

(2018)

DS Marcella Backland is called to a house where a workman has drilled through a wall and discovered an ear.

After seeing a psychiatrist to account for her black-outs Marcella returns to work, discovering that Reynolds knew Dawkins - who has an alibi for the attack on her - and there is unidentified DNA at Reynolds' flat. She interviews him but he collapses, muttering "Find the girl." Meanwhile another boy's corpse is found in the boot of a car, evidence of its owner having been destroyed and pathologists make a disturbing find on Leo's body. The Whitmans launch a children's charity where Vince makes a drunken rant in the presence of Marcella's colleague Tim Williams after ...

The latest victim is identified as Luke Howells, an unhappy teenager who hid secrets from his foster family. Like Leo a set of symbols, apparently to ward off evil, have been surgically inserted into his body. Both boys were lobotomised. Marcella learns that he was a rent boy known to Dawkins, whose partner suffers from the resultant publicity. Whitman launches a publicity stunt to prove that his workers, including Eric Davidson, are not exploited but violence ensues and Maya, seeing her husband as a liability, turns to Tim. As the latest child abductee makes his ...

Adam Evans escapes his abductors but his rescuers are killed and Adam is in a coma, the same tokens found in his body. Dawkins fools the gullible Edward into letting him into Marcella's house but the child is saved before Dawkins can harm him. However Jason sees this as another example of Marcella being an unfit mother though her hypnosis sessions put him in a bad light. Linked to the disappearance of schoolgirl Debbie Canovan in 1986 Reynolds argues with his over-protective ex-manager Alan Summers about coming clean and Maya disapproves of her husband's exploitative ...

Under hypnosis Marcella links the source of her black-outs to a murder case where she thought she was the killer before she and her team locate the house where Adam was held captive, the scene of an historic murder, which also attracts two ghost hunters, though neighbour Nigel Stafford gives Marcella no help. Elsewhere the terminally ill Reynolds shocks Summers when he tells him he wants to make a confession, Eric's sister, care assistant Gail, is intrigued by paralyzed patient Joel and Whitman becomes a suspect.

Nigel Stafford identifies Whitman as having visited the murder house and he is arrested but tells Marcella of Maya's affair with Tim .A plot to frame him is foiled and he is released but it leaves Marcella and Tim at odds. Summers gives Marcella evidence which unearths Debbie Canavan's body. She is the sister of Gail's boss Dr Lewis and was a friend of school run mum Jane Colletti . Marcella is suspicious of Reynolds' alleged suicide note whilst Gail is approached by Jason's new lover Becky, Joel's sister, and another body is discovered under the police station floor.

Marcella visits Nigel Stafford to find out why he lied about seeing Whitman at the murderer's house and he tells her he was forced to or else his girlfriend Rosio would be killed. Rosio is located but hers is the first of three deaths, including that of a police officer. Marcella scores a hollow victory over Becky, who splits up with Jason and returns Marcella's children, leading Marcella to submit Edward to hypnosis to recall Leo's disappearance but it achieves nothing. Meanwhile Whitman takes his revenge on Tim for the affair with Maya, Eric goes on the rampage ...

Marcella has no time to lose as the killer has Edward. Following leads she races to the killer's house, but it empty except for a ringing phone. However, a premonition offers up clues, but can she get to her child before it is too late?