The concluding part of this excellent drama began with the trial of Philip Hawkin and his wife Ruth giving her evidence about the last time she saw Alison. We then saw Catherine talking to Tommy about the case as they strolled along the beach. She asked him if George could’ve falsified evidence in order to convict Hawkin but Tommy said that he couldn’t believe that was true. Read more & comment »

Last night’s penultimate episode of this brilliant drama saw the investigation into Alison Carter’s disappearance resuming where it left off last week; investigating officer George Bennett breaking the news to Alison’s mother that he’d discovered Alison’s blood stained clothing – as well as a large quantity of blood – in a disused mineshaft and was therefore assuming that Alison was dead.

The footage throughout cut to and fro between the present day and 1963 and in the present, Catherine took her wayward daughter Sasha with her as she went to visit George, reliving some of her own childhood memories as they made the journey to his home. Catherine’s mother is and was a writer and we saw several flashbacks to times when a very young Catherine would crave her mother’s attention, only to be rejected as her mother put her work first, which Catherine realised was a parallel to her relationship with her own daughter. Read more & comment »

This excellent drama from Wire In The Blood writer, Val McDermid, starts on a freezing December day in 1963, when 13 year old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk and was never seen again. The mystery of her disappearance was never solved and now, forty years later, journalist Catherine Heathcote is making a documentary that revisits the scene of Alison’s disappearance and which involves extensive interviews with the police officer who was in charge of the case all those years ago, George Bennett. Read more & comment »