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Ashes to Ashes

2008- Returning/Still Running
 
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It's 1981 and DCI Gene Hunt is back and he's swapped his Ford Cortina for an Audi Quattro, but is the 'The Manc Lion' we met in Life on Mars turning soft?

Gene turns his attentions to taking on the "southern nancy" criminal scum and flanked by his faithful sidekicks DS Ray Carling and DC Chris Skelton, he transfers down South to the London Met. But Gene gets a surprise when he is thrown together with a sexy, ambitious and intelligent officer in the shape of single mother DI Alex Drake.

But Alex is ripped from her current world of equality and respect when she and her daughter are kidnapped. She is shot while making a bid for freedom and wakes up in a brothel in 1981, surrounded by men who look like something out of Miami Vice and is confused, to say the least. Here Alex comes face to face with some familiar characters, not just from her own life-time, but also from the reports logged by none other than Sam Tyler, which Alex has spent months pouring over.
Main Cast
N/ADean Andrews
as Ray Carling [S 1-2]
N/AKeeley Hawes
as Alex Drake [S 1-2]
 
N/AMarshall Lancaster
as Chris Skelton [S 1-2]
N/AMontserrat Lombard
as Shaz Granger [S 1-2]
 
N/APhilip Glenister
as Gene Hunt [S 1-2]
Recurring Cast
Geff Francis as Viv James [S 1-2] (16)
Joseph Long as Luigi [S 1-2] (16)
Grace Vance as Molly Drake [S 1-2] (15)
Adrian Dunbar as Martin Summers [S 2] (8)
Amelia Bullmore as Caroline Price [S 1] (8)
 
Andrew Clover as The Clown [S 1] (8)
Stephen Campbell Moore as Evan White [S 1] (8)
Lucy Cole as Young Alex [S 1] (6)


Premiered on Network:
BBC-1 in UK

Genres: Comedy / Crime / Drama / Fantasy

Language: english  Runtime: 60 mins

Official Website / IMDB-Link

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Guide available in: english
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Plot
2x01 - Episode 1:
When a dead man is found in a Soho strip club, it looks like a sex game has gone wrong. So when the deceased is discovered to be a police officer, Gene and Alex are ordered to keep the case under wraps. PC Sean Irvine was supposed to be clearing the streets of vice, but did he instead become seduced by it? When the pathologist uncovers signs that Sean was murdered, the team need to discover whether he was killed because he was a corrupt cop, or because he was an honest one. As the case leads  [...] (More)
2x02 - Episode 2:
The team is on the hunt for major vehicle thief Jed Wicklow, but when a car chase leads to his death, Gene stands accused of causing it through reckless driving. Alex is adamant that there was something wrong with Jed at the wheel and wants to prove that the crash wasn't Gene's fault. The deceased Jed was a Romany gypsy, and hostilities run high on the camp as CID heavy-handedly try to uncover the circumstances of his death. But in an investigation that's already met with resistance, someone  [...] (More)
2x03 - Episode 3:
Animal rights activists have threatened a series of attacks in London and the first victim, the daughter of a commercial laboratory owner, is in hospital. Gene orders his team not to sleep until those responsible are behind bars. Their first stop is a prison where Robin Elliot, a known animal rights campaigner, is serving time for killing a scientist in the 1970s. Alex is convinced that Robin knows about the planned attacks, but with no contact with the outside world, there doesn't appear to  [...] (More)
2x04 - Episode 4:
There's a visitor from Gene Hunt's old stomping ground of Manchester. Jackie Queen is a journalist who's had run-ins with Gene in the past and this time she has a surprise in store. Not one to miss out on a story, she's also investigating the disappearance of northern teenagers that have arrived in London. She wants help to find one in particular: Rachel, her niece, who has run away and Jackie fears has been lured into the seedy underbelly of the capital. Alex is suspicious of Jackie, and with  [...] (More)
2x05 - Episode 5:
When a violent burglary occurs at Alex's in-laws' house, she comes face-to-face with their son Peter, the 14-year-old future father of Molly! Alex is desperate to help Molly's grandparents all she can, but Gene wants a big collar to bury the press stories of police corruption, and dismisses the case as trivial. When the fingerprints from the crime scene reveal the burglar was George Staines, a notorious gangster, now supposedly dead, Gene realises this could be the catch he was after. Alex  [...] (More)
2x06 - Episode 6:
A dead body found floating in a canal is identified as Colin Mitchell, a man recently reported missing by his glamorous wife, Donna. Gene discovers that Colin worked for Trevor Riley, a nasty loan shark with a habit of hurting those who mess with him. A ruthless capitalist, Riley invokes terror in the community he controls, and Gene sets his sights on bringing this cocky and unscrupulous man down. Alex can't shake the feeling that Donna is hiding something, and wants to use her profiling skills  [...] (More)
2x07 - Episode 7:
What looks like a simple drugs-drop at a building site turns into a murder case when CID find a body buried in concrete. The site owner, Michael Lafferty, is working on major redevelopments to the London Docklands, and is resistant to having CID trampling on his turf. Many believe Lafferty is crooked - among them an eager young PC who thinks he's paying off his superior officers, plus several of the Polish workers he exploits. All the while Alex is waiting, convinced she's recovering in the  [...] (More)
2x08 - Episode 8:
What looks like a simple drugs-drop at a building site turns into a murder case when CID find a body buried in concrete. The site owner, Michael Lafferty, is working on major redevelopments to the London Docklands, and is resistant to having CID trampling on his turf. Many believe Lafferty is crooked - among them an eager young PC who thinks he's paying off his superior officers, plus several of the Polish workers he exploits. All the while Alex is waiting, convinced she's recovering in the  [...] (More)
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