1985

1985: WPC Denise Woods starts work at Brixton police station and immediately encounters sexism and hostility from piggish DCI Ferguson. One friendly face is DS Ray Deans,with whom Denise teams up to investigate the rape and murder of teen-aged Amy Reid,a girl Denise befriended after a disturbance at the Subotica club and who told Denise her father Paul disapproved of her dating black men. Ferguson is keen to arrest Paul Reid but Denise learns from Amy's friend Ellen that Amy left in a car with the club's DJ. When Denise and Ray visit the club they find bouncer Mike Holland with scratches on his face and wearing a medallion identical to Amy's. Denise seeks out Jay,a woman Holland was accused of raping though he was acquitted and,as the Brixton riots start,Ferguson allows Denise to take the credit for Holland's arrest.