DI RAY S2 - sun 20th oct/mon 21/Tue 22 - 9pm TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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S2 is back. Yah

The six-parter will air on ITV1 across six nights, which means episode 2 will follow on Monday 21st October, episode 3 on the 22nd and then will continue on the 27th, 28th and 29th the following week.

S1 thread here to refresh memories

DI RAY. ITV 9pm mon to Thur - tv pace. NO SPOILERS
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ITV crime drama DI Ray (www.digitalspy.com/tv/a42520296/di-ray-season-2-parminder-nagra-update/) has finally confirmed a release date for season two.
Parminder Nagra will return as DI Rachita Ray for the hit show's long-anticipated second season, which will premiere on Sunday, October 20.

DI Ray's first season premiered back in May 2022 (www.digitalspy.com/tv/a39897102/di-ray-gruesome-twist-episode-2/)
, following the titular detective as she investigated the murder of a high-profile criminal against a backdrop of systemic racism.

DONT READ BELOW IF HAVENT SEEN s1

The season concluded (www.digitalspy.com/tv/a39893021/di-ray-ending-explained-imran-killer/) with Rach uncovering who was behind the murder of Imran Aziz, before being suspended by the chief of police pending further investigation.

DI Ray was renewed for a second season (www.digitalspy.com/tv/a42070054/itv-confirms-di-ray-future-parminder-nagra/) in November 2022, with Nagra sharing in a statement at the time: "How lovely to have got the response that we did for series one.
"Thanks to our audience and to ITV and our amazing
talented producers Maya Sondhi, Jed Mercurio, Madonna Baptiste, Jimmy Mulville, we get to do it again. We look forward to taking you on another thrilling adventure!"

Season two will pick up two months after Rach's suspension, with the detective finding herself thrust back into homicide after a fatal drive-by shooting kills Frank Chapman, the head of a notorious local crime syndicate.

The offical synopsis continues: "DI Ray is in a race against time to uncover the truth before the Chapman family act out their revenge and an all-out gang war erupts onto the streets."

Other returning cast members include Gemma Whelan as DCI Kerry Henderson, Jamie Bamber as DI Martyn Hunter and Steve Oram as DS Clive Bottomley.

One cast member who won't be returning is Maanuv Thiara, whose character PS Tony Khatri died at the end of season one.

I’ve only got one more episode to watch and have enjoyed it throughout

Shush lol

He's a good actor! Not seen him before then on two programmes at the same time!

Now I remember, what was better about Series 1: the fiancé (Jamie Bamber) storyline. Maybe they should have brought him back in the first episode! It just needed more BENT COPPERS 🚓

I will watch it to the end (I've started so I'll finish) but it's turning into a bit of a hate watch and I've ended up shouting at the screen.

DI Ray is a mood hoovering muppet. She really is insufferable. All that charging in to things when she's been told not to. It doesn't just put her at risk it puts all her colleagues at risk too. She has no interpersonal skills at all. At one point she's going all mushy over the little girl who's just made her a bracelet then she gets a phone call and just runs off without a backward glance or a good bye or anything. Really cold and rude. Either it's meant to make a point or really poor writing.

When she was marching through the warehouse shouting for the deaf man? Then seemed to remember about 10 paces in that he couldn't hear and started shouting 'can you read my lips?' It was farcical! Does she think he'd got X-ray vision? Then he comes out from her right hand side some distance away answering her last question so maybe he did have X-ray vision.

Why was the mobile unlocked? Surely as a basic a criminal is going to have a PIN on their phone and even if he'd opened it for you it would lock after a certain length of time. She then responds to the baddy's text but no basic attempt to ensure she was responding in the same manner as the baddy (punctuation, grammar, style) and Rav didn't once think the message looked odd. Don't know why he then rang (other than for dramatic effect) because he couldn't hear so may as well have just continued texting.

Then my final pet hate in cop programmes is when I think they've slipped into Harry Potter and got a cloak of invisibility or something? All that sitting in cars supposedly under cover surveilling someone. On one occasion they took photos with a huge camera and no one seems to notice 2 people sat in a car on a street apparently doing nothing. Admittedly DI Ray squeaked 'they know we're here!' In surprise. Well of course they do . You're just sat across the road from them pointing a camera at them!,

And finally why is a DI out and about interviewing people etc? That's not their job. They should be back in the office directing operations. There's only limited circumstances when a DI would go out and interviewing isn't really their skill set. She is doing the DSs job.

But apart from all that... 😀

Oh. Just seen on planner. Didn't reliese was on 3 nights

Will go and watch e3

I think there is a bent copper in this and I strongly suspect the the male black DC. There have been too many unnecessary lingering shots of him in the first 3 episodes which has made me suspicious of him.

Oh really @CountTo10

I didn't think he was dodgy

So now rav is dead

Why did the team Burst in. They could hear she had it under control

Recap e3

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I think bent copper. They'd want him dead so that he couldn't spill the beans (about the girl?)

So it's Clive!

But is it? Usually the denouement is the last episode so seems a bit too soon to unmask the bent cop???

Yeah, true. But if it's a red herring, it's a pretty clumsy one.

Is Clive the bearded bloke ?

I don't think he's a bad cop

The reference is to the furtive phone convo he was having with a woman who sounded very much like the Chapman woman, Blondes.

Oh. Again that went over my head

I am useless 😂

Watch it again!

I didn't know who he was talking to but he stopped the call as soon as DI Ray appeared , made him look suspicious .

It was deffo a woman.

I assumed gf troubles

Ok. Re watched

He said

I know what i said

But things have changed

People have started asking questions

I can't do this for much longer

Woman

What did you Expect

You made your bed - lie on it

Thank-you!

Bit ambiguous then and probably designed to take us down the wrong path!

I have to admit with my poor eyesight I'm m really struggling trying to read all those text messages on phones and having to go to and freeze my eye pad at certain sections!

ipad not eye pad although topical in the circumstances 😂

Subtitles are wonderful

Agree I had to pause to read the texts