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The Guilty (2013)

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Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing. Five years later, DCI Maggie Brand leads a new investigation and puts at risk her own happy family life.

Cast & Crew

Director
Edward Bazalgette
  • Profile picture of Tamsin Greig
    DCI Maggie Brand Tamsin Greig
  • Profile picture of Arsher Ali
    DS Vinesh Roy Arsher Ali
  • Profile picture of Tom Beard
    DSI Alan Reece Tom Beard
  • Profile picture of Darren Boyd
    Daniel Reid Darren Boyd
  • Profile picture of Katherine Kelly
    Claire Reid Katherine Kelly
  • Profile picture of Linda Marlowe
    Lynn Brand Linda Marlowe
  • Profile picture of Nicola Thorp
    Miss Brenner Nicola Thorp
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Season 1

2013

3 episodes

Season 1 of The Guilty premiered on September 5, 2013

The Guilty is set across two timelines – 2008 and present day – and tells the story of DC Maggie Brand (Tamsin Greig - Episodes, Friday Night Dinner), who investigates the disappearance of little Callum Reid whilst coping with her own young son's diagnosis with autism. Following an annual neighbourhood barbecue, Claire and Daniel Reid frantically search for Callum when they awake to find him missing. Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge, Coronation Street) and Darren Boyd (Case Sensitive, Dirk Gently) play the young couple living in hope that their son will one day be found. Five years on, Arcadian Gardens is a very different place. An address synonymous with tragedy. The grief-stricken parents and their neighbours lives were torn apart by the events of that weekend, not least that of Callum’s big brother, Luke. Then, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of his disappearance, Callum’s body is discovered, buried only yards from his own front door. And the nightmare begins all over again. DCI Maggie Brand leads the new investigation. Pregnant when Callum went missing, debilitating morning sickness had forced her to step down from the original investigation. Her son, Sam, was born only a few months after Callum disappeared. Now he’s starting school and Maggie has to deal with her own feelings of loss, as she confronts the reality that her little boy is very different to the other children in his class. Driven by her obsession to discover what happened to Callum, Maggie leaves no stone unturned in piecing together the events of that fateful night.

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