Raven Black: Part 1

Series

Two

Episode

One

Writer

Ann Cleeves
Gaby Chiappe

Director

John McKay

Air Date

11 March 2014

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Raven Black: Part 1 is the first episode of Series Two of the Scottish television crime drama Shetland. It first aired on 11 March 2014 and is based on the Ann Cleeves novel Raven Black which was published in 2006.

Synopsis[]

When the body of a teenage girl is found on a beach, DI Perez leads the investigation. It seems the case may be linked to the disappearance of a young girl 19 years earlier.

Plot[]

DI Perez and his team investigate the murder of 17 year-old Catherine Ross who was found on the beach in the early hours of the morning by Jess Collins who was walking her dog. The local doctor determines that she died between midnight Sunday and four a.m. Monday morning and was strangled with her own scarf. The previous Saturday evening, Catherine and her friend Sally had attended a party on the beach and then visited an old recluse, Magnus Bain whom she had previously met while working on a school project. On Sunday, she visited Jess at tea-time and was last seen when she dropped in at a neighbor's house around 8:30 p.m. A piece of fiber found under her fingernails show that she had been at her teacher Hugo Scott's flat, something he initially denied. Perez also has to deal with the fact that some years ago, a child by the name of Catriona Bruce - who lived at the same address as Catherine did in the present - vanished without a trace.