DI Alex Drake of the Metropolitan Police is taken hostage and shot, and
wakes to find herself apparently thrown back in time to 1981. She
quickly recognises DCI Gene Hunt and his team from detailed reports
made by DCI Sam Tyler about his own trip to 1973. Initially sceptical
about the surreal nature of her new environment, Alex, a modern,
no-nonsense woman, clashed regularly with her sexist colleagues but had
to learn to adjust while she strove to find her way back to 2008. As
time passed, Alex started to accept her situation, and wonder whether
her life in the future had been the dream. Executive Producer Jane
Featherstone described this spin-off from Life on Mars as "a touch of
Moonlighting teamed with a measure of Miami Vice."
Episode 1: DI Alex Drake is taken hostage and shot, and wakes up in a brothel...
in 1981. Rescued in a police raid, she quickly recognises DCI Gene Hunt
and his team from detailed reports made by DCI Sam Tyler about his own
trip to 1973.Gene is determined to address London's growing drugs
problem, and has targeted city playboy Edward Markham as the brains
behind the operation. Alex suspects Arthur Layton, the man who
kidnapped her in 2008. Could Layton be the key to her return to her own
time?
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