Dead Water: Part 1

Series

Two

Episode

Three

Writer

Ann Cleeves
David Kane

Director

David Moore

Air Date

25 March 2014

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Dead Water: Part 1 is the third episode of Series Two of the Scottish television crime drama Shetland. It first aired on 25 March 2014 and is based on the Ann Cleeves novel Dead Water which was published in 2013.

Synopsis[]

A journalist is killed in a road accident and it emerges he was an old pal of Perez. As the investigation progresses it seems the victim's return to Shetland was connected to plans for a controversial new gas pipeline.

Plot[]

Investigative journalist Jerry Markham, a Shetlander now based in London, returns to the island and is killed in a suspicious car accident. It appears that he was interested in the unpopular Storne gas company whose business has probably killed the fish at Joe Dalhousie's fish farm, which stands in the way of their proposed pipeline. As forensics expert Willow Reeves confirms that Jerry's death was deliberate Perez learns that Jerry's old girlfriend Evie Watt is due to marry widower John Henderson, who disliked Jerry. Evie's father, boat-builder Cameron, also had no love for the dead man who got Evie pregnant but whose family stopped their getting married. Perez invites himself to the wedding reception and sees Jerry's father Adam arguing with the bride. Soon afterwards another corpse is discovered.