'D.I. Ray' Recap: Season 2 Episode 6

D.I. Ray airs Sundays at 9:00 pm and is available to stream. Recap the previous episode.
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This episode contains discussion of suicide.

The part of a gun found in a Chapman pawn shop matches the one that was used to shoot but not kill Frank Chapman in his home the night he died. It has been chopped up into pieces, presumably to hide it. Odd, then, that the gun used to kill Frank was not destroyed or hidden but kept by Dave Chapman. Perhaps Dave planned to use it to frame Rav Mochani for Frank’s murder – but instead Rav got the gun from Dave and killed Dave with it.

Frank’s DNA is on the destroyed gun part, suggesting that it was his – which means whoever used it against him may have come to his home unarmed. The DNA of another Chapman is also on the gun and a partial fingerprint on the gun matches one of the unidentified ones on Frank’s car, so the detectives gather the living members of the family – Suzie, her sister-in-law, her nieces – for a DNA sample and fingerprint. But they can’t find Suzie’s niece Amy.

Amy is not at her school, so the detectives talk to her close friend there, Shabnam. She reluctantly reveals that Amy’s aunt Suzie picked her up from school today. Shabnam wasn’t supposed to say anything. Suzie also gave Amy a burner phone to use.

Meanwhile, the detectives have investigated the city councilor Amara Dhawan and continue learning more about her scheme with the Mochanis to traffic a girl, Sajna, from India, in order to provide Amara’s daughter with a kidney transplant. They have seen footage of Amara arguing with a doctor at the hospital where her daughter was being treated. That doctor is now on leave, and when the police go to his house they find that he is dead of suicide. His house contains divorce papers and lots of bills – perhaps he owed the Mochanis money, and so was blackmailed into doing the illegal transplant operation.

Rav Mochani promised Amara that Sajna would have a better life in England and be looked after. He agreed to traffic Sajna for Amara in exchange for her rewarding his family with a lucrative contract the Chapmans previously held.

That’s not the only mystery solved: D.I. Ray also learns which of her team submitted a complaint about her recklessness when she accidentally sees an email from the superintendent arrive in Liam’s inbox after Liam has just left the office. She opens it and sees the superintendent asking Liam to put his concerns in writing, with her boss Henderson cc’ed.

Liam regrets this, as he obliquely tells Charlene, who just spent the night with him. When Ray speaks to Liam about the complaint, he says he expressed concern that Ray might need support to Henderson; he didn’t submit a complaint. But after the shooting of Rav, the superintendent got involved and pressed Liam to formalize his concern as a complaint in writing. The superintendent presumably wanted to scapegoat Ray for the shooting.

Ray confronts Henderson and plays her some of the surreptitious recordings she has made of Henderson and the superintendent. Henderson says she hates working under the superintendent and pleads with Ray not to report her.

Ray is more focused on the superintendent, however, given that Clive suspects he is a member of a racist and misogynistic chat group to which Clive was added. Indeed, Clive learns that the one hidden number in the group belongs to a pay-as-you-go phone that was recently refilled at a store – and the superintendent can be seen leaving that store on CCTV at the exact correct time. Clive thinks the superintendent keeps the burner phone in his car, based on when he responds.

Ray tells her colleague Holden about all of this at a dinner date, and he cautions her that it could all blow up in her face and take her down. She is unfazed.

Clive makes another discovery when he notices that some of the photos that were taken down from a swim academy’s wall before the detectives visited include Laura Kirkby alongside Frank Chapman. Laura is the daughter of Frank’s onetime colleague turned enemy Lou Kirkby – and she died years ago.

Clive arranges a meeting with Lou and his wife Lisa. They say that Laura became depressed after she started at the swim school. She died by overdosing on pills the day after her 15^th birthday. Her diary explained that Frank sexually abused her. I didn’t kill Frank, Lou says, but I wish I had.

This explains Frank’s interest in Sajna – and also makes the whole mystery click for D.I. Ray. She sets off to find Frank’s granddaughter Amy.

The phone Suzie gave Amy is located near a hotel, where the staff confirm that people matching Suzie and Amy’s descriptions checked Amy in. As Ray rushes to the hotel, another car begins ramming hers – Suzie has had Ray followed, and told her thug to follow through on his warning to Ray not to keep investigating Frank’s death.

Ray manages to send the thug crashing into a dumpster, knocking him out. She calls the police to arrest him, then runs around the corner to the hotel, where she sees Amy on the very high roof. She sprints up the stairs and tries to talk Amy down from the ledge at the edge.

Suzie and more police arrive on the roof as Amy says that she just wanted Frank to admit he sexually abused her, and prevent him from doing the same thing to her younger sister. She went to his house to confront him, then got angry and grabbed his gun. He struggled with her and the gun went off. Amy told Dave, her dad, and he told her to go home and shower. He then went over, followed Frank to the hospital, and killed him before destroying the gun Amy used and hiding the pieces – including in his pawn shop.

Dave told Suzie when she returned to England that Rav killed Frank; that’s why the Chapmans kidnapped Rav, to frame him. But Suzie eventually figured out what actually happened and told Amy to keep her mouth shut; Suzie would protect her. Suzie says there’s no proof of anything, but Amy, sobbing, says there is. D.I. Ray has pulled her from the ledge, and she shows her a video of her confrontation with Frank, including the gun going off. Furthermore, the bloodstained chain Suzie found in Dave’s closet belongs to Amy; the blood is Frank’s.

That case closed, D.I. Ray and Clive turn back to the superintendent. Clive tells one of the members of the chat group that they’ve been found out. Some members quickly leave. Ray and Clive wait in the garage watching the superintendent’s car. When he gets in and pulls out his phone, they approach him and confront him. He surreptitiously leaves the phone in his car and gets out to angrily march them to Henderson’s office for insubordination.

Faced with choosing to believe the superintendent or Clive and Ray, Henderson chooses her subordinates. She has the superintendent arrested. She withdraws her application for a promotion at another police station; the superintendent position is now open at her own. Ray tells Clive she’s proud of him, and that his wife will be, too.

Ray herself is moving forward in relationships. She cooks dinner at home for Holden, who gives her a kiss when he arrives with a bottle of champagne. And she has lunch with her mom after checking in on Sajna, who is in foster care and will soon be adopted. Ray tells her mom that she submitted her evidence of racism against the force, and her mom cries. She’s so proud of her daughter.