THE BAY S5 - ITV 9pm - sun 2nd March and mon and Tue - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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ITV’s hit crime drama The Bay is back for its fifth series, bringing more mystery, drama and emotional twists to Morecambe.

The new series starts on Sunday, 2 March at 9PM on ITV1, with episodes continuing on the Monday and Tuesday.

Marsha Thomason – who took over from Morven Christie as series lead for season 3 in 2022 – will return as family liaison officer DS Jenn Townsend (www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-bay-season-4-marsha-thomason-jenn-newsupdate/)
, who will once again be tasked with investigating a shocking crime.

Meanwhile, other regular cast members back for the new season include Daniel Ryan as DI Anthony 'Tony' Manning, Erin Shanagher as DS Karen Hobson and Andrew Dowbiggin as DS James Clarke.

There are also new arrivals in the shape of Happy Valley star Olwen May and The Full Monty's Tara Lynne O’Neill, while some more returnees include Barry Sloane as Chris Fischer, Georgia Scholes as his daughter Erin, and David Carpenter and Emme Hayes as Jenn’s children Conor and Maddie.

A synopsis for the new run teases: "When 23-year-old university student Hannah is found dead on the edge of the docks, Morecambe’s MIU team has another case to solve

Jenn, who is returning to work following the death of her father, pushes aside her own grief to support Hannah’s bitterly divided family.

"With the stakes of the investigation high, Jenn and the team dig deeper into the case, uncovering hidden friendships and secret liaisons as anger rises in the student community."

Yeah, I wondered too.

It’s where the radfords live 😂

Interesting call about Hannah’s mum being violent and not step dad

DH, the oracle , say Sinead was in the last series.

They can’t kill Tony

jenn will never cope if he dies and her dad

I plan to flit between the two. Will start with the bay and at advert break. Go and watch 5mins off the au pair

Least Tony isn’t dead. Well hope he stays alive

Have you given up on Virdee, Blondes? I'm liking that, and am watching it first on Mondays, then The Bay. As for the Au-Pair, I'll see what the MN verdict is! 😀

No. I have ‘coughed’ watched that earlier once I put mini blondes to bed as all on at 9

obv it’s started now

He is ok

yah

Oh dear. Jen's family is falling apart.

It is rather.

Heart condition

I thought her step daughter was a but ungrateful

even if jenn was at the station she wouldn’t have been allowed near her car due to being family

They don’t seem very supportive to Jenn

she is grieving 🥲

Recap e5

Manning is hospitalised and is gradually stabilised, but is informed that stress has caused a disruption in his heartbeat pattern.

Additionally, his doctor informs him to ease off his work and find a less stressful routine.

Meanwhile, DCI Josephine Hardy is called to substitute in Manning's absence, whose leadership style becomes challenging for the team.

Karen steps in to handle Erin's arrest for theft, which results in her being committed to community service.

Clarkie looks into Cal's unusual delivery route pattern and his exposure to TBP from barrels he transported.

Lou determines a pattern of burglaries which happened sometime after Craig laid carpets at said locations, which leads to his arrest and subsequent confession.

Tommy attempts to turn himself in for not taking action despite suspicions of Craig's scheme, but Jenn explains that he hasn't committed any offences despite this.

The pressure of her personal life and rapid changes at work sends Jenn over the edge when she finally reunites with her family, realising that she isn't fully over her father's death.

Well, after that episode we are no closer to finding out who killed Hannah and Cal 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nope. And last one tomorrow

Does look like maybe as if Tony is being written out of it. But yeah, no idea about the murders.

Peripheral characters who have appeared more than once but no suspicion on them so far:

• personal tutor at uni. Said he didn't know Hannah that well other than that she apparently had boyfriend trouble.

• Tom Lister's character, the guy at the environment place where Hannah did work experience.

• Hannah's drug taking flat mates (boy and girl). Not Elliot, the other two. Both said the same as tutor about boyfriend trouble. But no evidence that Hannah was having boyfriend trouble, just heresay.

I'm guessing Hannah's bag is key as it has been mentioned every single episode and is still missing.

Not sure it's any of the family now as there has been far too much focus on them.

Bag was in his van wasn’t it. Seen on cctv

so maybe they will search that tonight ?

I think the students were involved. Definitely the female one who gave the Hannah Was My Best Friend speech at the vigil.

Craig was a baddie in the new Bergerac - that went on a bit too…

Yes wasn't it the female student friend that was all hysterical and desperate to find the bag and handed a bag to the police that she said was Hannah's but it wasn't. Another student pointed out it was nothing like Hannah's and she was all like "oh yeah" which was odd in itself. Maybe student friend was desperate to give any bag to the police because she has the actual bag 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thought last night's episode was really just a filler .
Nothing much happened in regard to the case , a few other things going on.
All just to pad it out .