Messiah II: Vengeance is Mine
Episode One
Personal grief has to be put aside when brilliant detective Red Metcalfe is faced with a series of grisly and sadistic killings. Each body provides a taunting clue to the murder method to come and the police team and their families could be next on the hit list.
DCI Red Metcalfe is distraught when his estranged brother is knifed to death, with the detective's profoundly deaf wife Susan as the only witness. But he has to swallow his own misery when a body is unearthed in woods, at the same spot as a killing two years before.

The new corpse had been buried alive, with a ball of cheese-wire in his hand. Then, within days, the sister of the dead man is also killed. Her trussed up corpse tumbles from a suspended bag at the laundry where she worked - also clutching cheese-wire.

Red and his team - bright, no-nonsense DS Kate Beauchamp and dour DI Duncan Warren - realise that the killer is out to right wrongs. Could police officers have been guilty of 'noble cause corruption' - tampering with evidence to get convictions?

Red's suspicions are confirmed when his friend and colleague DCI Charlie MacIntyre pays a terrible price for withholding crucial evidence about a previous murder. For every guilty police officer an innocent person will die. No-one is safe.

Episode 2
DCI Charlie MacIntyre has paid a terrible price for putting the wrong man behind bars - and he won't be the last. Now the stakes are raised for Red to track down the sadistic murderer whose aim is to be judge, jury and executioner of the guilty. But the killer is always one step ahead.

A terrifying picture is beginning to emerge as more killings yield bizarre and grotesque clues. The murderer seems to know more than the police about past miscarriages of justice and suspicion falls on smart-Alec defence lawyer Daniel Jameson.

DI Wilby's boyfriend, tired of intrusive police protection, slips off to the opera - but the killer is still one step ahead and exacts a chilling and surprising retribution. Meanwhile DCI Red Metcalfe is desperate for his wife Susan to spot his brother's killer in a police line-up. He needs to see justice done near to home as the horrors of his job take their toll on all around him.

Even Red's boss, DCS Emerson is caught up in the web of past injustices, when his daughter goes missing. Panic spreads through the murder investigation team as they realise that they and their loved ones could be next.