Silver Or Lead (Mafia For Hire Book 1)

Product Information

Anti-Villain: Frances Drummond. When Catherine finds out Ryan's new tutor is someone who's been visiting Tommy Lee Royce in prison, she surprisingly doesn't flip out. Instead, she notifies the police of her fraud ( she'd been impersonating her dead sister), and goes to her house while she's under house arrest just to ask her why she did it. Later, she finds evidence that she was just one of many woman Royce had been grooming, and empathetically breaks the news to her. Overall, the series goes to pains at the end to stress that she was as much a victim of Tommy's grooming as any of his other victims.

ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Catherine's justification for always arresting the rich drug addicts: they'll use this trope to avoid punishment, so why not humiliate them while she can? Offing the Offspring: Darrell's mom Alison kills him with a shotgun after he confesses to being the Serial Killer.

By contrast, Ashley is clearly uncomfortable with the concept but would rather pretend its a natural development than admit he might have hired a monstrous liability. SinisterSurveillance: It is the UK after all. The NCA and police are able to use this to their advantage, as Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is used to prove Kevin did not travel to the service stations he said he did, exposing his complicity in the kidnapping. spoiler:Tommy Lee Royce, who douses himself with petrol, downs alcohol and pills and sets himself on fire. Catherine puts him out but he later dies in the hospital.]]

This isn’t the first we’ve heard of Gary Gaggoski’s murder on Happy Valley. In Series 1, episode 4 (BBC Writers Room script extract below), when Ashley, Lewis and Tommy are discussing what to do about their kidnap victim Ann, Lewis suggests involving someone “higher up. Somebody who can make people disappear.” When Ashley scoffs at him, he says “Gary Gaggoski. He disappeared. Tony Stead says he’s sat at t’bottom of Scammonden dam in concrete underpants.” Sally Wainwright’s script specifies that Tommy responds with a noiseless snigger/sneer. Thanks to the St Christopher medal, now we know the sneer is because Tommy knows all about Gary’s disappearance, and his corpse’s real location. The Spryfield wars were raging full-on when both Jimmy Melvin Sr. and Jimmy Melvin Jr. were released from prison in 2006. Catherine Cawood retires from the police with a bang. On her last day, she takes down Tommy Lee Royce, Darius Knezevic and identifies Joanna's killer. She also finds peace with the loss of her daughter and moves on. VillainWithGoodPublicity: Darius Knezevic is making an effort to clean up his public image so he can be elected to the local council which, in turn, would allow him to expand his criminal activities even further.WhatDidIDoLastNight: ''Several'' characters get their rounds with this trope in Series 2: DS Wadsworth, Clare, Ann, and Neil. Wadsworth's is the most severe case, as he wasn't technically drunk, but had been drugged.