On a snowy Christmas Eve, former mild-mannered college student Casey Smallwood is released from prison after serving 10 years for underage drinking. Eager to get out of town, he hops on the express train to Washington, D.C., but after the holiday express
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of homicide. But soon a homicide case impinges on her new job when a very young male prostitute is murdered in the apartment of Vera Reyno
DS Jane Tennison is relocated from the Met to the Greater Manchester Police where she finds herself in conflict with her new superior, Det Chief Supt Martin Ballinger, over how to deal with the city's drugs and guns menace. Encountering a corrupt reprobat