User Reviews

This is the penultimate episode of Scott & Bailey, and all credit to the director of photography for capturing the grim skies and cold weather of Manchester.

Janet, Taisie and her boyfriend too...now this episode covers the anguish of Janet's daughter Taisie being investigated for sexting and her boyfriend Sam. Janet regrets giving Taisie a smart phone.

Bailey is four months pregnant and doesn't let the world know. She explains that she had "average sex with an ordinary guy" probably in London when she was on secondment there. This was alluded to in a brief flashback scene in the previous episode.

Bailey gradually respects Ram, and Ram is one very skilled police officer.

The ending is grim, with Mitch being slashed in the throat by Kenny. Mitch doesn't survive sadly.

Well, Mitch's Day Book appears to be the cause of the leaked information on the case as he tells Rachel and Janet he can't find it.

Spoiler Alert!!!!!!!

Mitch is sliced across the neck by a suspect in the murder investigation. He makes the mistake of going into the suspect's house instead of waiting for Janet to get off the phone. At least he won't be reprimanded by the force. I'm not in law enforcement but is losing one's day book worse than getting it on with Rachel's mom in the parking lot? Is it Pete?

And for a group that likes to go out for drinks after work (almost every day - how do their livers managed to hold up) they have one of the dreariest get-together after Mitch dies.

By the end of the episode we see the new girl in Syndicate 9, Anna, thinks she has tracked down the killer by combing through CCTV. Of course we also find out she's a lesbian. It seems like a gratuitous point since it really doesn't matter to the story line in any of the episodes of Season 5.

The death of Mitch knocks this episode down to 7 out of 10 since he, Lee and Pete are good characters that somewhat offset the estrogen of the two lead characters.