Five Days

9:20pm – Saturday, May 19 on ABC1

Now day 102, Farid (Kamal Hussain) is taking a bigger role in baby Michael’s life, preparing to take over from Nick (Derek Riddell) as ‘father’. Farid introduces baby Michael to Maureen (Pooky Quensel) despite Nick’s misgivings. His nightmare comes true when Maureen kidnaps the baby.

Still in mourning for Mal (David Morrissey), Laurie (Suranne Jones) is shocked to discover that her mother, Jen (Anne Reid) and Gerard (Bernard Hill) plan to get married.

The police have found out about Khalil’s (Sacha Dhawan) trip to Pakistan and he is imprisoned under antiterror laws, causing distress in the community. Nusrat (Shivani Ghai) finds it hard to forgive him, not least because it may jeopardise her chances of adopting a baby. She refuses to join Danny (Matthew McNulty) and Ibra (Aaron Neil) as they go to visit him in prison.

Instead, Nusrat takes part in the Remembrance Day Service where she is joined by Jamal (Ashley Walters). Distressingly, their presence causes an unpleasant reaction from a group of locals.

Meanwhile, Maureen has taken baby Michael to his birth mother who sends her packing. In utter despair she returns to Pat (Steve Evets) and tells him the whole truth of what happened on the bridge on ‘Day One’.

Will he be able to handle her revelations? And what will become of baby Michael?

9:20pm – Saturday, May 12 on ABC1

Now thirty-seven days into the case, breakthroughs begin to throw light on the identity of ‘Lola’ and baby Michael. A girl named Katie has been arrested in Newcastle and her prints match those found on Michael’s buggy.

Odder still, ‘Lola’, Farid Sadar (Kamal Hussain) comes back from the dead and is looking for his son! Mal (David Morrissey) and Laurie (Surrane Jones) head to Scarborough to interview him. He tells them that the body on the line was his younger brother, Enayat, who followed him over to the UK.

Pat (Steve Evets) is reunited with the prostitute ‘Soraya’, real name Maureen (Pooky Quensel). She has quit the game and we learn that Maureen knew Katie and the two Afghan men. Was Maureen on the railway bridge that fateful day.

Nusrat (Shivani Ghai) and Danny (Matthew McNulty) are worried about Khalil (Sacha Dhawan), who is suffering from depression. He suffers a panic attack at the Queen’s visit to the local hospital and is arrested by the police.

Loved up in Scarborough, Mal and Laurie nearly get a night away together but their romance is thwarted when Mal’s wife relents and gives him access to Luke the following day.

As they get off the train back in town, Laurie bumps into Sohel (Zaid Munir), the strange, edgy student from the train. He throws his rucksack at her and runs off suspiciously. Laurie and Mal give chase with heart-thumping, tragic consequences.

9:20pm – Saturday, April 21 on ABC1

A commuter train in the north of England is brought to a sudden halt when a young woman jumps from a bridge in an apparent suicide. At a local hospital, a new born baby is discovered abandoned in a toilet by an African cleaner.

Are these events connected in some way.

The train is carrying off-duty policewoman Laurie Franklin (Suranne Jones – Coronation Street) and her mother Jen (Anne Reid – Coronation Street), recently diagnosed with dementia, to hospital for a memory clinic.

Laurie teams up with train conductor Danny (Matthew McNulty – Misfits, Little Ashes) to help control the chaos and comfort train-driver Pat (Steve Evets – Looking for Eric). Still in shock, Pat reveals that the jumper was an Asian girl, dressed in a burka.

Danny wonders with his father-in-law, Ibra (Aaron Neil), who the victim may be. Danny and his wife, Nusrat (Shivani Ghai – Cleanskin, House of Saddam) have further worries though. After multiple miscarriages they have a crucial adoption interview tomorrow.

Laurie and Jen arrive at the hospital where Jen suffers a seizure. Laurie meets Nick (Derek Riddel – Ugly Betty, No Angels), the foster carer who will look after the abandoned baby. Laurie becomes convinced that the baby and the train victim are related.

DI Mal Craig (David Morrisey – The Walking Dead) takes over the investigation with surprising news for Laurie. The victim was not an Asian girl. The train hit a man. And did he jump, or was he pushed?

9:20pm – Saturday, April 28 on ABC1

Police christen the dead man, ‘Lola’ joking that he must have been an Asian suicidal transvestite. Laurie (Suranne Jones) wonders if the burka is a disguise and, if so, who was he running from.

DI Mal Craig (David Morrissey) remains cynical that there is any connection between the body and the abandoned baby found at the hospital. It might be her birthday, but Craig revels in telling Laurie that she’s wrong at every opportunity.

Danny (Matthew McNulty) and Nusrat (Shivani Ghai) are overjoyed to be approved as adopters.

Meanwhile, Nick (Derek Riddel) has taken baby Michael home to Scarborough.

The police have little evidence to go on until a young boy hands over his mobile phone footage that reveals a second person on the railway bridge. Maybe Laurie is right. She’s more surprised still when she learns that the boy is Mal’s son, Luke (Luke Hudson).

There’s a breakthrough when Bilal Choudhry (Navin Chowdry – Teachers) from drugs squad identifies Lola as one of his informants. ‘Lola’ is Farid Sardar, a young Afghan asylum seeker.

There’s a growing respect between Craig and Laurie brewing by day’s end. Laurie returns home to find that her mother is seeing fellow passenger Gerard (Bernard Hill). All a bit sudden….

At evening prayers, Nusrat is shocked to bump into a young man she knows. He is distressed and angrily refuses to talk to her before running off into the night.