DI Alex Drake lands in 1981 after being shot, and comes face-to-face with DCI Gene Hunt.

CID are under pressure to keep the streets quiet in the run-up to the royal wedding.

Alex seems to be the only one in CID to take a prostitute's claim of rape seriously.

Alex is suspicious when the body of a nuclear research facility worker disappears from the mortuary.

Alex latches on to the notion that stopping gangster Simon Neary from gun-running may prevent her getting shot in 2008.

Alex desperately tries to solve the case of the raid at a post office, thinking she will die in 1981 otherwise.