Red Bones: Part 1 is the first episode of Series One of the Scottish television crime drama Shetland. It first aired on 10 March 2013 and is based on the Ann Cleeves novel Red Bones which was published in 2009.
Synopsis[]
DI Jimmy Perez investigates when elderly Shetlander Mima Wilson is murdered.
Plot[]
As the Shetland Isles prepare for the tourists coming for the Up-Helly-Aa festival Jimmy Perez investigates the murder of elderly Mima Wilson, shot dead outside her croft. An archaeological dig was taking place on Mima's land and team member Hattie James tells Perez that Mima was upset when a piece of skull was unearthed by Mima's niece Jackie Haldane. Perez learns from Jackie that Mima was also unwilling to sell her land to developer Duncan Hunter, in which she was opposed by her son Joseph. Jackie's drunkard son Ronald is also a suspect and is beaten up by mystery attackers. Perez also discovers that in World War Two Mima's husband and Jackie's father Andrew, now an invalid, helped refugees from Norway escape the Nazis, one bearing the same surname as the dig's leader, Paul Berglund. Then Hattie is killed as she is about to tell Perez something.
Cast[]
- Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Perez
- Alison O'Donnell as DC Alison 'Tosh' McIntosh
- Steven Robertson as PC Sandy Wilson
- Erin Armstrong as Cassie Perez
- Mark Bonnar as Duncan Hunter
- Lewis Howden as Sgt. Billy McCabe
- Sandra Voe as Mima Wilson
- Claire Rafferty as Anna Haldane
- Jim Sturgeon as Ronald Haldane
- Gemma Chan as Hattie James
- Alexander Morton as Joseph Wilson
- Lindy Whiteford as Jackie Haldane
- James Greene as Andrew Haldane
- Sophie Rundle as Sophie
- Finn Den Hertog as Drew
- Martin Wenner as Professer Paul Berglund
- Alison Peebles as Vicky Kirkland
- Geraldine Alexander as Gwen James
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