This review contains spoilers. Bentley’s sons, John (Lex Shrapnel) and David (Jay Taylor) are busy preparing for the robbery on a local branch of the British Savings Bank. They’re posing as workmen in order to drill through the wall of a neighbouring café and into the bank’s vaults, though obliging owner Silas Manato (Antony Skordi) is getting nervous about the interest from curious neighbour, Hebe (Charlotte Palmer). The Bentley boys’ mum Renee is curious about her sons’ activities, too, but John’s managed to keep David quiet so far, despite his brother’s constant misery, which appears to be connected to Julie Ann’s fate. David’s got other, more mercenary preoccupations on his mind, too; he visits his dad in prison to ask for a bigger cut of the proceeds from the robbery. Clifford reluctantly agrees, but the heated conversation between them has violent consequences, and Bentley ends up at loggerheads with kingpin Clay Whitely (Dorian Lough). The old hand’s loyalties are being challenged, and his fearsome reputation doesn’t seem to carry quite as much weight in the criminal underworld as it once did. The ongoing investigation isn’t the only subject weighing on Jane Tennison’s mind. She reports her conversation with Suzy (Katie Griffiths) back to DI Bradfield, who chides her for failing to follow protocol, but is ultimately grateful. They have a drink and Bradfield confides in her about his grief for a young PC murdered during a routine traffic stop by a man who, unbeknownst to the dead officer, was on his way to commit a robbery. Both end up drinking more than they ought, and a fumbling kiss ends in embarrassment on both sides. At work the following day, Bradfield attempts to avoid Tennison and snaps at her when she makes a mistake. The atmosphere remains uncomfortable, and is exacerbated when Sergeant Harris lets slip that most in the station think Tennison’s joined the police for no better reason than to snare a husband. Kath Morgan’s kindly to her friend to take care, as the clinch with Bradfield was witnessed, doesn’t lift the gloom: neither does a dash from work to arrive, late, at her sister’s wedding rehearsal, where she encounters more of the tight-lipped disapproval that, it seems, is the norm chez Tennison.
