Filmmaker Catherine Heathcote (Juliet Stevenson), a single mother and workaholic, throws herself into a documentary about a respected high-level police official, George Bennett, whose career took off 45 years earlier with his first big case: the disappearance and presumed murder of 13-year-old Alison Carter in the village of Scardale in north England. Although Bennett got a conviction, Alison’s body was never found.
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Lee Ingleby as DI George Bennett
The deeper Catherine digs into the Alison Carter case, the more disturbing it appears. Most troubling are the villagers of Scardale, a close-mouthed clan who, until late in the investigation, withheld key information.
As Catherine begins to grasp the long-held secrets of Scardale, her quest not only turns the Alison Carter case upside down, but it begins to make sense of the tormented journalist’s own troubled past.
Friday, August 20 at 9:30 p.m. on PBS-HD.
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