Ashes to Ashes - Series Two - 4-DVD Box Set ( Ashes to Ashes - Series 2 )

Ashes to Ashes - Series Two - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Ashes to Ashes - Series 2
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
472 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Box Set
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Catherine Morshead

Written By:
Mathew Graham
Ashley Pharoah

Actors:
Philip Glenister ..... Gene Hunt
Keeley Hawes ..... Alex Drake
Dean Andrews ..... Ray Carling
Marshall Lancaster ..... Chris Skelton
Montserrat Lombard ..... WPC Sharon Granger
Roger Allam ..... Det. Supt. Mackintosh
Adrian Dunbar ..... Martin Summers
Shaun Evans ..... P.C. Kevin Hales
Pooky Quesnel ..... Ruth Irvine
Anna Nightingale ..... Sally
Joseph Long ..... Luigi
Geff Francis ..... Viv James
Grace Vance ..... Molly Drake
Diane Langton ..... Julia
Michael Gould ..... Pathologist
Deirdre Mullins ..... Nurse
Laura Martin-Simpson ..... Nurse
Syrus Lowe ..... P.C.
Janet Whiteside ..... Woman
Gwyneth Powell ..... Mrs. McClusky (archive footage)
Michael McCain ..... DCI Garrett

Synopsis:

This second series of the time-bending ASHES TO ASHES-itself a spin-off of the popular LIFE OF ON MARS-continues where the first series left off. After sustaining a serious head injury, naughties era Detective Inspector Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes - THE BANK JOB) wakes to discover she's living in 1982 and working under the watchful eye of the incredibly un-P.C. DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister, reprising his star-making role from LIFE ON MARS). For a progressive, career-driven woman, Drake finds herself at odds with the 1980s' method of investigation and a Scotland Yard unaccustomed to having a female voice heard. With the mystery surrounding the death of her parents now solved, Alex desperately seeks to find out how she has become trapped in the past, but must first unravel a conspiracy within her department that involves police corruption, a wealthy entrepreneur and a shadowy Superintendent involved with the Free Masons.

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Episode #2.1
Original Air Date-20 April 2009
After a pep talk from new broom superintendent Mackintosh who is anxious to stamp out police corruption, Hunt and his team are called to a Soho strip club where P.C. Irvine is found dead and, to quote Hunt, 'looking like Hilda Ogden' in a photograph with stripper and wannabe actress Sally. Soon after Sally is shot dead. Irvine's widow Ruth is initially evasive, chiefly because she has been having an affair with Mackintosh, but she does give the team a diary, exonerating him from extortion but putting his young colleague Kevin Hales in the frame as the officer on the make, out to silence his worthier partner. The case resolved, Chris tries to atone to Shazz for his sexist comments by performing a full strip in public.

Season 2, Episode 2: Episode #2.2
Original Air Date-27 April 2009
Gypsy car thief Jed dies after Hunt has pursued him in a high speed chase and Hunt and Mackintosh put out a cover-up story to exonerate Hunt. Drugs are found on the corpse and the whole camp is arrested including an old lady who tells Alex's fortune and recognizes her parallel existence. The deceased was known to abuse his pregnant girlfriend Alva and Alex believes that seemingly altruistic local Dr. Battleford, the camp's G.P., fed Jed lethal pills, as he was in love with Alva and is the baby's father. She is eventually proved to be right and Alex and Hunt deliver Alva's child. An even more bizarre alliance is formed when Hunt buys Alex's view that Hales was a pawn in a conspiracy to kill officer Irvine and joins the Masons to gain Mackintosh's confidence.

Season 2, Episode 3: Episode #2.3
Original Air Date-4 May 2009
Alex hears that young Hales has died in prison, endorsing her conspiracy theory, and when Mackintosh wants the case closed even Hunt starts to agree with her. After a man who runs an animal research lab and his little girl are injured by a bomber Alex visits dogged anti-vivisectionist Robin Elliot, serving a jail term for a similar attack seven years before. He seems unnervingly aware of Alex's position but offers no help when the police are told to expect more attacks. After he has starved himself to death Alex learns from his effects who is continuing his campaign. The resultant shoot-out brings her closer to recalling her life in the 2000s but a celebration of her being saved coupled with the fact that Shazz and Chris are getting engaged is soured by the news that Mackintosh wants Hunt transferred to Plymouth.

Season 2, Episode 4: Episode #2.4
Original Air Date-11 May 2009
After Alex and Hunt bug Mackintosh's office for evidence of his corruption they are visited by Jackie Queen, Hunt's journalist old flame who has come from Manchester to investigate the disappearance of teenage runaways,including her niece Rachel. A stake-out at the coach station leads to businessman Ralph Jarvis, a friend of Mackintosh,who denies everything. However Rachel appears and offers herself as bait, enabling the team to interrupt one of Jarvis's sex parties, also arresting him for another young girl's murder which Mackintosh covered up. A shoot-out between the two villains prevents Hunt's transfer to Devon but one's dying word 'Rose' is a mystery which Alex believes is intended for her.

Season 2, Episode 5: Episode #2.5
Original Air Date-18 May 2009
Having heard television puppet Orville claim that she 'has made it to hospital' Alex attends at a burglary of her future in-laws and 14-year-old spouse-to-be who obviously fail to recognize her. The thief's fingerprints are those of a crook who faked his death years earlier but has had a sex change, re-emerging as home beautician Gaynor who uses her work to locate victims like the Drakes. Alex is visited by ex-cop Summers,who is also from the 2000s, and who offers her a path home by subscribing to the dodgy Operation Rose, but she is wary,knowing that it implies the corruption Hunt is anxious to kill following adverse press reports of police behaviour in the wake of the death of Mackintosh and his equally dishonest buddy.

Season 2, Episode 6: Episode #2.6
Original Air Date-25 May 2009
Colin Mitchell's corpse is found in a canal and his father Stanley points the finger at vicious loan shark Riley who once employed Colin. Alex - witnessing her successful operation in the 2000s via an out of body experience - finds Riley too obvious, even though Colin and his wife Donna were planning to flee the country to escape him, and first Stanley, then Hunt, are assaulted by Riley's goons. Hunt terrorizes Riley in a junk-yard but Alex's belief in his innocence is eventually exonerated. Shazz and Chris, after arguing, agree on their wedding plans.

Season 2, Episode 7: Episode #2.7
Original Air Date-1 June 2009
After reassuring visions that she will survive Alex is called to a drugs stake-out at a building site where the corpse of a Polish worker is partially buried in cement. A young constable - the young Martin Summers in fact - points Hunt in the direction of Lafferty, the foreman, who uses cheap illegal labour but Lafferty claims that Summers accepts bribes and Alex tends to believe him until SPOILER! SPOLER! SPOILER! she is summonsed to the site where, bizarrely, both versions of Summers arrive, the older killing the younger one and leaving Alex to bury his body if she is to return to her own time. When another Pole is nearly killed,and vital evidence stolen, Hunt realizes that there is a traitor in his team who has tipped off Lafferty and others before him. He sets a trap to catch the mole but refuses to accept their resignation, believing they have more value pretending to be disloyal.

Season 2, Episode 8: Episode #2.8
Original Air Date-8 June 2009
A voice from the future tells Alex she must fight post-op infection, which she interprets as Summers. Hunt's grass 'Rock Salmon' Doyle is murdered after divulging an upcoming heist, which Alex realizes is Operation Rose, in which corrupt cops will rob a bullion van. She even pinpoints where the crime will take place, correctly leading to successful arrests and several deaths, including Summers. And so she wakes up in hospital in her own time, free at last... except for an annoying face which crops up on her television screen.

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