The Field of Blood

- Season 1

(2011)

In 1982 Patricia 'Paddy' Meehan, lowly Girl Friday at the Glasgow Daily Post has journalistic aspirations, despite her male colleagues' sexist remarks. When three-year-old Brian Wilcox is murdered the chief suspect is Callum, Paddy's cousin's ten- year -old son and when his name is published in the paper, his family - wrongly - blame Paddy. Unconvinced of Callum's guilt Paddy links the murder to that of another little boy, some years earlier, whose alleged killer has just hung himself in prison. Paddy interviews the man's widow, using the name of a colleague, Heather,...

The police interview the journalists following Heather's death. However, when Paddy tries to persuade them that Brian's murder has the same hallmarks as that of little Thomas Dempsie, whose father killed himself in prison and whose mother she interviewed using Heather's name, they are not interested. Paddy speaks to alcoholic veteran hack Dr. Pete, who is sure Dempsie never murdered his son. Then, with young reporter Terry she finds evidence to suggest that mobile grocery van driver Henry Naismith, a witness in the recent case and Dempsie's cell-mate is the culprit, a...