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Overtuigend, complex, aangrijpend en verontrustend, The Red Riding Trilogy is een adembenemende neo-noir epos gebaseerd op weerzinwekkende en waargebeurde feiten. Het scenario is geschreven door Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, TIDELAND) aan de hand van David Peace’s grimmige crime-thrillers. The Red Riding Trilogy vertelt de controversiële verhalen rondom de jacht op een van de meest wrede seriemoordenaars ooit: de Yorkshire Ripper.

Na een mislukt avontuur in Londen keert de cynische journalist Eddie Dunford terug naar zijn geboorteplaats in Yorkshire waar hij op pad wordt gestuurd om verslag te geven over de vermissing van een 6-jarig meisje. Maar nadat haar bizar verminkte lichaam is ontdekt, komt hij terecht in een geweldadige en verrotte nachtmerrie gedomineerd door corruptie. De identiteit van de moordenaar blijft een mysterie. Generaties lang is men in de ban van de gruwelijke zoektocht die volgt en uiteindelijk eindigt in een schokkende ontknoping.

In the Year of Our Lord 1980

The second episode of the trilogy aired on 12 March 2009. The theme for this episode is the investigation of the Yorkshire Ripper murders. It starred Paddy Considine as Peter Hunter, a police officer brought in to assess the investigation of the Ripper murders. It featured David Morrissey as Maurice Jobson, Jim Carter as Harold Angus and Maxine Peake as Helen Marshall.
The story focuses on police corruption. After public outcry concerning the Ripper crimes, and under heavy pressure, the WYC brings in Hunter to the Ripper investigation, much to the chagrin of Bill Molloy (Warren Clarke). Hunter had previously worked on the Karachi Club massacre, a case he had to abandon due to his wife"s miscarriage. The two cases are linked by Officer Bob Craven (Sean Harris). Hunter suggests that the Ripper investigation is being side-tracked by the Wearside Jack tapes and feels that the real Ripper has been interviewed and missed.
Peter Hunter suspects, when reviewing the Ripper cases that the killing of one victim, Clare Strachan, is a copy-cat murder. Hunter, Helen Marshall and John Nolan (Tony Pitts) receive information on the murder of Clare Strachan from BJ. It is revealed by the latter that masked policemen burst into the Karachi club minutes or hours after Dunford"s revenge, killing all civilian survivors and finding Bob Craven and Tommy Douglas wounded by Eddie. Clare and BJ, two of the waiters at the club, witnessed the whole scene while hiding behind the bar, and were spotted by Angus and Craven as they fled the premises. BJ is, therefore, the only surviving witness of the Karachi double massacre, which forces him to flee town.

Peter Hunter returns to Millgarth Station, Leeds where he is taken by John Nolan to the cells. He sees Bob Craven who has been killed for the murder of Clare Strachan. Nolan reveals that he took part in the Karachi Club shootings and shoots Hunter dead. Detective Inspectors Dickie Alderman and Jim Prentice make it look like Hunter and Craven shot each other. Joan Hunter is seen comforted by Reverand Laws after Hunter"s funeral. This episode was shot on 35 mm film and broadcast with an anamorphic aspect ratio of 2.35:1. It is directed by James Marsh.