Счастливая долина (сериал) Сезон 2

Following a tip-off Catherine makes a gruesome discovery at the Garrs' farm, leading to an arrest, as well as learning Drummond's true identity and confronting her with the facts about Royce - though some damage has already been done. Hearing Neil's account of Vicky Fleming's penchant for blackmailing her married lovers and a statement from John's wife's boyfriend means that the net finally closes in on Vicky's killer, once again involving Catherine in a precarious situation.

Catherine and Ann have a long drunken night out while Frances makes the petrol bomb she plans to throw through Catherine's window.

Catherine interviews a prostitute who has survived being attacked by Sean Balmforth, who is subsequently arrested and charged as being the serial killer whilst vulnerable young farmer Daryl Garrs is also taken in for hitting out at the thugs who stole his mother's sheep. Catherine is shocked when, on grandson Ryan's birthday, he receives a lavish present, purportedly from his father Royce, which allows Drummond to suggest to the boy that he is anxious for forgiveness. In fact Royce wants a more direct revenge. As John's wife throws him out Neil tells Clare that he ...

Catherine reconciles with Clare but her superiors see her as vulnerable and offer medical retirement, which she rejects - seeing a therapist instead. Vicky's body is discovered but the murder of another prostitute allows John to suggest that both were the serial killer's victims though his marriage still disintegrates. Catherine is shaken by the apparent suicide of one of Ilinka's slave-masters though Ilinka sees it as murder. Meanwhile, deceived by Royce's lies, the obsessive, deluded Drummond plots to ruin Catherine.

Catherine brings home Croatian Ilinka, one of several women rescued from slave traffickers, and places her with elderly Polish friend Winnie before joining the house-to-house investigation of the serial killer who murdered three female victims. After his wife's death Nevison reinstates Sean but Catherine suspects the youngster of stalking prostitutes. She also attends Lynn's funeral, a fact which does not please her superiors when Royce accuses her of killing his mother . Another mourner is Frances Drummond who, under an assumed name, is teaching at Catherine's ...

Eighteen months have elapsed. After investigating a bizarre case of sheep-stealing Catherine discovers the corpse of prostitute Lynne Dewhurst, Royce's mother, whom she had warned to keep away from her grandson and, along with new recruit Ann Gallagher, Catherine joins the investigation. CID officer John Wadsworth, however, is more concerned with preventing mistress Vicky Fleming from telling his wife Amanda about their affair whilst Ann's father Nevison has to sack volatile employee San Balmforth and Clare meets an old flame, Neil Ackroyd. Royce is given consolation ...