'D.I. Ray' Recap: Season 2 Episode 5

D.I. Ray airs Sundays at 9:00 pm and is available to stream. Recap the previous and following episodes.
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The superintendent has started to question D.I. Ray’s loyalty as protests against the police grow. He pushes her to charge Rav Mochani for the killing of Frank Chapman and Megan Parks in the hope that it will defuse the protests, but she still doesn’t believe the culprit is Rav, who has just died in the hospital from a police shooting.

Ray is being investigated internally due to her reckless behavior and the shooting of Rav, but her lawyer believes she is being scapegoated. When she is interviewed by the investigator, she learns that her boss, Henderson, has expressed concern about Ray’s decisions – even though Henderson asked Ray to have her back before she went into the interview. Ray confronts Henderson afterward and curses her out.

The superintendent is not the only one pressing Ray to charge Rav. Suzie Chapman has Ray under observation, and sends a thug to warn her. As Ray is getting into her car, she is pushed against it by a man whose face she cannot see. He presses a gun against her head and tells her to stop investigating and charge Rav with the murders.

The incident shakes Ray, but she doesn’t inform any of her team that it happened. She tells only her counterpart Holden, who offered to meet her for dinner to allow her to vent after her interview with the investigation. Ray tells him that the warning has convinced her Rav is innocent. She unloads on Holden: Henderson and someone else on her team have reported her as reckless; Clive is part of a text group full of racist and misogynistic rhetoric, including against Ray.

Ray has looked up all the officers in this text group, but there’s one whose identity is hidden. Clive has noticed that Ray’s behavior towards him has changed, but Ray insists it hasn’t.

And Ray’s not out of danger: at night, masked men watch her from a car, but are prevented from accosting her when another woman appears in the parking lot and strikes up a conversation.

Ray’s team does have a possible lead: they have tracked down a woman who might be the Frank Chapman girlfriend that his onetime associate Lou Kirkby mentioned. Claire Doyle appears with Frank in several years-old newspaper stories, and she attended Frank’s wake. She explains that she and Frank were involved for a few years a while ago, and that Frank bought an old pool building and asked her to start a swimming school that she still runs there.

Claire has an alibi for Frank’s death – she was at a swimming competition in another city. But Ray notices some years of photos missing from a wall of students. Her team later tracks them down online and notices that they all included Frank along with Claire.

The detectives are also surveilling the city councilor and mayoral candidate Amara Dhawan, who has been using a burner phone to contact Rav’s sister Priya. Amara stops at the Mochani jewelry shop for a few minutes, then at a hospital that Rav also recently visited, as a parking receipt amongst his things shows. When the detectives question Amara, she says she visited the Mochani store to offer her condolences for the death of Rav, but no one was there. She also professes ignorance about the contract that the Chapmans once held and which the Mochanis were now trying to win.

But the detectives tap into a phone call from Amara to Priya in which Amara asks her to find “the girl.” That call, combined with medical tests that reveal that Sajna, the trafficked Indian girl, is not sick despite her claim to be so, leads Ray to the truth. She goes to the hospital while Amara is again there, this time with her daughter.

Amara’s daughter needs a kidney transfer and has been waiting for three years; the Mochanis brought Sajna over as a donor and told the girl she was sick so she would think she needed the operation to remove her kidney. Amara is arrested.

Priya’s mother, Sharan, scolds her daughter for not coming to her for help – Rav would still be alive if she had. You were always the stupid one, she tells Priya. Now Priya could serve time for trafficking.

The detectives are also still looking into Lou Kirkby. A meeting with Lou is set up through one of Clive’s sources, but Lou bails at the last minute and Clive gets drunk instead, wallowing in sadness after being kicked out by his wife.

He shows up at Ray’s house, drunk, and confronts her over her recent rudeness towards him. She angrily justifies herself by bringing up the misogynistic police chat group. Clive explains that he was added to the group and has tried to leave – and he never participates. The racist group is the reason his South Asian wife kicked him out.

Clive reported the group to the superintendent – that was the confrontation Ray saw in the parking lot – but the superintendent dismissed it. Clive now thinks the superintendent is a member of the group, the one whose identity is hidden. And now Clive can’t report the group to anyone else, because the superintendent will know that Clive is responsible and retaliate.

Ray promises to help Clive bring the superintendent down.

She also might soon bring down the Chapmans. Suzie, who has inherited the family business, is doing her best to cover tracks. She has given all her employees two weeks off so she can sort through her father’s books, she tells the detectives – but they notice that she has also been burning papers in a bin in Frank’s backyard. She is also desperate to find the rare gun used to shoot but not kill Frank the night he died, but hasn’t been able to find it in either Frank’s house or amongst her brother Dave’s things – although there is a bloodstained chain in Dave’s closet.

The detectives find it first. While searching a Chapman pawn shop, they discover part of a gun.