Five Days

Mother of three, Leanne Wellings, disappears whilst out looking for flowers.

Leanne's mother, Barbara, makes an emotional appeal for her daughter's return.

Barclay has to defend the course of his enquiry to an independent police review.

Leanne's body is discovered in a lake, and the family begins to turn on each other.

Leanne's murder is eventually solved, but can the family get on with their lives?

Day 1: In Northeast England, lives intersect when a baby is found abandoned in a hospital toilet, while a young Muslim commits suicide by jumping in front of a train.

The identity of the person killed by the train is revealed after a photofit is posted, but this only complicates matters as national intelligence immediately get involved. Besides the name, the police still know almost nothing about the victim, including any relationship to the abandoned baby, Michael.

Michael takes ill in the hospital and the diagnosis is suspected methadone withdrawal. A week after the murder and there are no leads. A reconstruction is staged where Laurie is annoyed by Gerry's interference and stroppy Muslim passenger Jamal Matthews accuses her of inciting Islamophobia.

Nick takes Michael home and confesses to Colly, his dead wife's sister, that he wants to keep him but Didi tells Colly a child needs a mother and Nuss and Danny are in the frame for the adoption. Mal is hit by a car whilst pursuing Sohel, one of the train passengers.

Spolier; Reveals End. Two months later, Laurie, still limping from the accident that killed Mal,learns that Jen and Gerry are to marry. Maureen, having told the police she was on the bridge when the boy jumped but did not push him, lives with Pat.