Episode 1 – The Storm
Adam Elliot and Grace Douglas are childhood sweethearts, just back from their honeymoon when they are brutally murdered by mentally ill drug addict Lee Walsh. Their families, neighbours in the remote Scottish Highland village of Braeston, are shocked and devastated by their murder. But their world is turned upside down when Walsh arrives on their doorstep the night after the killing. A storm has been raging, and Walsh’s car comes off the road. When the two families find him, badly injured, they are faced with a terrible dilemma. Do they save the man who killed their children? Or do they leave him to die?
Compassionate Claire wants to help him, but her brother Rob and mother Louise are less convinced. The Douglas family want justice – but it’s clear both Moira and their troubled son Jamie are hiding their own secrets. The decision is made to keep him locked in Bill Douglas’s barn whilst they wait for help, but by the morning, someone has committed the ultimate act of retribution. One of them has blood on their hands – but who?
Meanwhile detective Juliet Wallis finds herself on the other side of the law when she decides to turn drug dealer in order to give her terminally ill daughter Maddie a final chance at life. But can she livewith the consequences of her actions?