Episode seven

Sick of trying to comfort a particularly self-pityingly drunk and angry Gene Hunt, Sam goes home only to be awakened in the middle of the night by Gene himself, explaining, "I appear to have killed someone." While Sam gets to work on proving his disorderly colleague's innocence in the shooting of a local underworld bookie, he's being monitored by the stand-in DCI, Frank Morgan, from Hyde division. Morgan is a man intent on doing the internal investigation by the book. So thoroughly, in fact, that Sam can't help but be impressed by his methods, and his appealingly modern approach. But at the same time, he can't help but accept that the evidence is stacking up against Gene. Sam starts to seriously question whether this boozing, ill-disciplined man could really be capable of committing murder. As Sam sees Gene's normally loyal colleagues, even Annie, turn coldly from their old boss to Morgan, Sam feels an acute sense of panic. If Gene is rotten, then what on earth is he doing in league with him? Why has he been cracking crimes and putting away bad guys if one of his own is among them? Indeed: why is he in 1973? As Sam redoubles his efforts to prove Gene's innocence, if only to preserve the fragile world Sam has existed in, the investigation comes to a shocking denouement, one that rocks the very foundations of his world.