Five Days - Season 2 - 2-DVD Box Set ( Five Days II ) ( 5 Days Two (Five Days 2) )

Five Days - Season 2 - 2-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Five Days II
Alternate Title: 5 Days Two (Five Days 2)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
300 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Toby Haynes

Written By:
Gwyneth Hughes

Actors:
Ash Tandon ..... Mr. Hassan
Philip Arditti ..... Dr Haydar
Kerry Condon ..... Siobhan Doole
Shaun Dooley ..... Sgt. Parker
Steve Evets ..... Pat Dowling
Chris Fountain ..... PC Paul Tait
Shivani Ghai ..... Nusrat Preston
Bernard Hill ..... Gerard Hopkirk
Cornell John ..... Didi Mputu
Suranne Jones ..... DC Laurie Franklin
Matthew McNulty ..... Danny Preston
David Morrissey ..... DI Mal Craig
Zaid Munir ..... Sohel Hussain
Aaron Neil ..... Ibra Akram
Wendy Patterson ..... Clinic Nurse
Pooky Quesnel ..... Maureen Hardy
Anne Reid ..... Jen Mason
Derek Riddell ..... Nick Durden
Samantha Robinson ..... Natalie Cryer
Nina Sosanya ..... Colly Trent
Ashley Walters ..... Jamal Matthews

Synopsis:

A tiny newborn baby is abandoned in the toilets of a Yorkshire hospital. At the same time, the Trans-Pennine commuter train is halted by a suicidal jumper - are they connected? From this moment on, the lives of those on board the train and in the hospital will be changed irrevocably, not least for DC Laurie Franklin (Suranne Jones - Scott & Bailey, Coronation Street, Strictly Confidential), off-duty that day but travelling on the train with her mum, Jen (Anne Reid - Shameless, Bleak House¬), who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Laurie likes tying up loose ends. And, if she can prove a connection between the body and the baby, she will be happy. But things never turn out quite the way we expect. Who is the baby's mother? And who is the jumper? And was it a suicide - or was it really a murder? As Laurie is drawn deeper into the mystery, she realises this might not be a simple case at all, but something much darker. Her life becomes even more complicated when she falls for one of her work colleagues David Morrissey (South Ridings, UB dead and Doctor Who) who is a hard nosed Detective with a strong will.
This classic BBC drama was original shown over five consecutive nights and captivated millions of viewers. With a pedigree support cast including Bernard Hill (5 Days, Lord of the Rings) and Hugo Speer (The Full Monty, 5 Days) this is BBC drama at it's very best.

Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Day 1
Original Air Date-1 March 2010
Laurie, a divorced policewoman,is on a train with her mother Jen,going to hospital for Jen,who has borderline Alzheimer's,to be assessed when the train grinds to a halt. A young Muslim woman has jumped from a bridge under its wheels. With Pat,the driver,traumatised,Laurie and conductor Danny take charge until the Railway Police arrive. Danny gives Jen and Laurie a lift to the hospital,where Jen fits and is admitted overnight. Here Laurie learns from social worker Colly and foster father Nick that a baby has been abandoned in a toilet and found by cleaner Didi,who swears to protect it and after whose brother Michael the baby is named. As Danny and his Muslim wife Nuss discuss adoption Laurie believes that the baby and the suicide are connected. Mal Craig, the Railway Police inspector, tells her that the corpse is that of a youth and not a woman.
Season 2, Episode 2: Day 2
Original Air Date-2 March 2010
Laurie discovers that Michael's blood group is peculiarly Asian and,although it does not match the dead youth's, his finger-prints are found on the baby's buggy,which Colly and Didi discover,abandoned in the hospital grounds.It also contains a Muslim prayer for protection. Mal's son, who lives with his estranged wife, was playing by the railway lines, and took a photo showing that the dead youth was actually pushed,at which point Laurie's superior,Carpenter, takes over the case. D.C. Choudhury answers an appeal and names the corpse as an illegal Afghani immigrant and drug-pusher, probably killed in a gangland revenge. Whilst Laurie is surprised to find Jen has brought home Gerry, a man they met on the train, Nuss - hopeful to adopt Michael - discovers her brother Khalil agitated and blood-stained.
Season 2, Episode 3: Day 8
Original Air Date-3 March 2010
Michael takes ill in the hospital and the diagnosis is suspected methadone withdrawal. A week after the murder and there are no leads. A reconstruction is staged where Laurie is annoyed by Gerry's interference and stroppy Muslim passenger Jamal Matthews accuses her of inciting Islamophobia. An old lady alerts Laurie to the disappearance of her neighbours on the day of the incident - a man and two women. Farid's shoe is found in their car but was apparently also worn by someone else. Nuss disowns Khalil to the adoption officer and soon afterwards their father,Ibra, finds images of Khalil with a Taliban-type group on his computer following Khalil's visit to Pakistan,allegedly to study. At the same time Khalil is meeting Jamal Matthews.
Season 2, Episode 4: Day 37
Original Air Date-4 March 2010
Nick takes Michael home and confesses to Colly, his dead wife's sister, that he wants to keep him but Didi tells Colly a child needs a mother and Nuss and Danny are in the frame for the adoption. Khalil freaks out at a royal visit and is briefly taken in by Laurie,which angers Ibra,who confronts his son with the computer photos,to be told they were from the past and that Khalil is changed. Pat meets old flame Maureen who tells him she lived next to the old lady with her friend's daughter Katie - now in Manchester and Michael's mother - and an Afghani boy. But he is not Farid as believed as the real Farid turns up to say he was his brother. Jen and Gerry get close as he goes with her to hospital,where her condition is re-diagnosed as physical degeneration and not Alzheimer's. Laurie and Mal also get close but,as Pat takes Maureen to the police to explain her innocence, Mal is hit by a car whilst pursuing Sohel, one of the train passengers.
Season 2, Episode 5: Day 102
Original Air Date-5 March 2010
Spolier; Reveals End. Two months later, Laurie, still limping from the accident that killed Mal,learns that Jen and Gerry are to marry. Maureen, having told the police she was on the bridge when the boy jumped but did not push him, lives with Pat. Farid, Michael's real father,is preparing to collect him from a resentful Nick and will raise him helped by Maureen.However Maureen steals Michael and takes him to Katie,his mother,who is not interested. She returns to Pat,telling him she shopped Farid for drug-dealing,causing his brother to kill himself as he was left on his own. Pat then kills her for having deserted him twice over,though Michael is safe. Khalil is imprisoned on suspicion of terrorism for having been at the camp in Pakistan and Nuss and Danny fear this will harm their adoptions chances forever.

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