\"DCI Banks\" Aftermath: Part 1

Two police officers are called to an apparent domestic where they find Lucy Payne unconscious. Investigating a noise in the cellar they are attacked by her husbandMarcus| who kills one of them with a machete before the other| Janet Taylor| knocks him out and he is arrested. D.C.I. Alan Banks comes to the house and finds thecorpses of four missing blonde girls| though there is no sign of Leanne Wray| who also disappeared. The case is hampered when| due to an interfering hospital doctorperturbed that Janet put Payne in a coma| Alan is shadowed by annoying D.S. Annie Cabbot from the Professional Standards Department. Lucy| a frequent victim of herhusband's violence| cannot help trace Leanne| being unaware that her husband was a mass killer and also unaware that he was having sex with Maggie| the concernedneighbour who wanted her to leave him and who called the police to the Paynes' house. After a chilly first meeting Annie suggests to Alan that they have a drinktogether and he ...