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3. Paternal

A man is found shot dead in a hotel room and the cash he was carrying has gone missing. Sam and Ronnie learn that the man owed his ex-­wife thousands of pounds in unpaid child support, was lying to his girlfriend about his line of work, and has a son dying of leukaemia, but hadn't been tested for a bone marrow match. Attention turns to the ex-­father-­in-­law, did he hunt down the father of his dying grandson to try to recoup the unpaid money or is there more to this family set up than first appears? At the CPS Jake and Kate try to work through their differences and reach a more even keel.

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Michael Trent is found shot dead in his hotel room and the money he had with him is missing. Not only was he dealing with the dangerous Kopecky brothers ( Branko Tomovic and Christopher Sciueref ) but had told his girlfriend Becky Bryson ( Gemma Atkinson ) that he was an under-cover policeman, when he was actually car salesman Gary Tully. The police learn that, despite his hidden wealth, he owed thousands of pounds in child maintenance to Lindsey Donovan ( Jo Hartley ), the mother of his son Joe ( Max Furst ), who has leukemia and was evasive about being tested for a bone marrow match. Suspicion falls on Tully's ex-father-in-law and Lindsay's father Philip Donovan ( Ian Bleasdale ), who had been hiding some of the stolen money and he is charged with murder but his lawyer Eleanor Flint ( Amanda Mealing ) pleads self-defence when Philip claims that Tully pulled a gun on him. However a police interview with an associate of Philip suggests that both he and Lindsay had plotted to kill the victim. Kate is sympathetic over the family situation but Jake simply wants a conviction.

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