Cast: Sean Bean, Rebecca Hall, Peter Mullan
Directed by: Julian Jarrold
Synopsis:
(1974) Centers on a rookie journalist, Eddie Dunford, whose investigation of a series of child abductions and murders leads him to suspect that there's a terrifying connection between the perpetrators and the upper echelons of Yorkshire power.
(1980) The police and the public still baffled that the "Ripper" remains at large and may have inspired a copycat killer. A veteran police officer, Peter Hunter, is called in from Manchester to take over the investigation, but his new theories about the case only incite growing opposition to his involvement.
(1983) With the kidnapping of another young girl, Detective Maurice Jobson notices a number of powerful similarities to the abduction cases he had investigated back in the '70s - and for which a man was convicted and sentenced. Meanwhile, a reluctant local solicitor, John Piggott, decides to take up the condemned man¿s cause.
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