Don't show me this message again✕ Shocking scenes at the start of the second series of ITV’s . A jolly retirement party for family solicitor Bill Bradwell (James Cosmo) is interrupted by the arrival of a courier at the door. Bill’s slightly soppy son-in-law and partner in his law firm, Stephen Marshbrook (Stephen Tompkinson), goes to answer. He is shot dead on his own doorstep in front of 10-year old son Jamie (Jack Archer), the little boy’s face suddenly all spattered and freckled with Daddy’s warm blood. All hell breaks loose, obviously, and soon to arrive on this ugly scene are newly demoted Detective Constable Lisa Armstrong (Morven Christie, grim-visaged as ever) and her inexperienced boss (and former sidekick) Detective Ahmed “Med” Kharkim, a thoroughly wet young man who seems to be the West Lancashire Police Service’s answer to Gavin Williamson. (You may recall that Armstrong was caught in an unethical liaison in the last series and is lucky to still have a job. So she’s more miserable and frustrated than ever.)