'D.I. Ray' Recap: Season 2 Episode 4

D.I. Ray airs Sundays at 9:00 pm and is available to stream. Recap the previous and following episodes.
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D.I. Ray’s lone-wolf tendencies have caught up to her. In the wake of the shooting of Rav Mochani by a police team while she was alone with him, the superintendent is opening an investigation that will also encompass other instances where Ray failed to wait for back-up or put people in danger. The superintendent blames Ray for the shooting. So does Rav’s mother Sharan, when she confronts Ray at the hospital outside the room where her son is in a coma.

Ray goes for a last-minute session with her therapist and insists that she’s not being reckless. But watching Rav get shot brought back the trauma of watching her colleague and lover Tony Khatri be shot and killed in front of her. It should have been me, she says.

Her therapist asks her if she’s resting. Ray responds that she experienced a weeklong depression after she was suspended; she’s afraid that will happen again if she stops to rest.

That’s also why she’s keeping everyone at a distance, sleeping with men casually. But she’s warming to Ethan – until she drives to his house and sees him having an argument with his sister-in-law, Ray’s boss, Kerry.

Ray leaves without Ethan seeing her and confronts him later, asking if something is going on between him and Kerry. He says not anymore. Ray assumes he was just using her to antagonize Kerry and leaves upset.

Even with Rav in the hospital, Ray still has the murders of Frank Chapman and Megan Parks to investigate. Unrest is growing in Birmingham as people blame the early release of Rav from prison for the innocent Megan’s death. South Asian businesses are being targeted with graffiti.

Sajna, the girl Ray found at Rav’s girlfriend Dawn’s house, is the best lead. She was brought to the UK on a tourist visa, and a DNA test shows she is not Rav’s daughter. She recognizes both Frank and Rav’s sister Priya when shown photos of them. The woman who was interviewing her also points out to Ray that Sajna held her stomach and said something in Punjabi at the end of the interview, but it was after the translator left so they didn’t notice at the time. But video of the interview reveals Sajna said she was sick and that’s why she’s in the UK. Ray wonders if the girl was told to say that, since she seems healthy.

When the Mochani property is searched, a burner phone used by Priya is found. She used it to communicate with Rav as he was trying to flee the country, but also another number in recent weeks. That number can’t be identified, but it was often used in a posh neighborhood – and near the police station. Ray secretly submits an application for calls from the phone, lest any of her colleagues is corrupt.

The detectives question Dawn again, who admits she lied about recognizing Frank. He came to her house one day and handed her a phone with which to take a photo of Sajna.

The detectives also find by digging into the Chapman’s businesses that they held a lucrative contract with the local government for several years, but its extension was prevented at the very last minute. The Mochanis recently set up a company to do the same sort of work – and it applied for the contract the Chapmans held.

Ray’s colleagues now also think Rav is responsible for Frank’s murder. The bullets that killed Frank and Megan match the one that killed Dave, whom Rav admitted he killed in self-defense. But Ray wants to track down the rare gun used to wound Frank Chapman at his house before he was murdered.

Suzie Chapman is trying to prevent that. She goes to Frank’s house and takes off a vent. She pulls out a bag full of bullets, then calls someone and tells them that the gun’s not there.

She’s also trying to unravel events. One of her father’s henchmen tells her that Frank was arranging a meeting with a Mochani a few days before his death. He also wanted the henchman to tail a woman with whom he did business, then changed his mind before saying who she was.

That’s not the only secretive questioning going on. Ray’s corrupt ex-fiancé has told her to look into Lou Kirkby, a former associate of Frank who was recently paroled from prison after being sentenced for a “random act of violence.” Clive contacts a Lisa Kirkby and visits her. She says Lou hasn’t been in touch but is planning to leave the country. He thinks it’s his fault, she says, but won’t say more.

Clive has plenty going on in his life, as Ray learns when she asks him why he has been sleeping in his car lately. He admits that his wife kicked him out. Ray offers to let him stay on her couch.

Ray and Clive then go question Lou. He says he was at the pub when Frank was killed, and says it’s a shame that Frank’s woman “on the side” isn’t dead, too. The detectives begin trying to search out a woman who had an affair with Frank.

While Clive is at her flat, Ray asks him why he was arguing with the superintendent in the police station garage – she saw them. Clive shrugs it off. He also swears he didn’t report her to the superintendent, triggering the investigation into her.

But when he takes a shower, Ray checks his phone, having watched him input his passcode. She finds a group chat seemingly with other police officers full of crude comments about women – and a conversation about how Ray will soon be kicked off the force.

Ray has been building a discrimination case against the force; her lawyer has argued that the investigation into her is just an attempt to pin blame for other failures on her. But when Ray’s mom visits her apartment to make her dinner and criticize her lack of food and cleanliness, she warns her that she’s only one woman. Ray’s mother faced plenty of her own discrimination, but one woman can only stand up for so much on her own.

Suzie Chapman seems to be a woman who can stand up for herself. She visits one of her family’s pawnshops and finds surveillance photos of Rav and Dawn hidden with a letter about the loss of her family’s lucrative government contract.

She goes with the letter to the office of Amara Dhawan, a local councilor who is running for mayor, and demands to know about Amara’s work with her father. Meanwhile, Ray’s application for the records of the phone Priya Mochani called with her burner phone comes through. She listens to a call Priya received – from Amara Dhawan. Frank Chapman is dead, Amara says. Keep your mouth shut.