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Returning: Traces

Critically acclaimed crime series gets a Free to Air return.

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UK crime drama Traces returns for its second season on ABC in April.

Based on an idea by novelist Val McDermid, this is a 6 part series which screened on Subscription TV a year ago.

Passions run high in an explosive return of this critically acclaimed crime series.

Lab assistant Emma Hedges (Molly Windsor) is now training to be a forensic chemist, and on the cusp of seeing her mother’s murder case finally resolved. Daniel (Martin Compston) is to give evidence against his father in the High Court. Will Emma and Daniel’s relationship withstand the pressure? Will justice be served?

Meanwhile, Emma’s friends and mentors at The Scottish Institute of Forensic Science and Anatomy are investigating a deadly bombing campaign. A series of homemade devices are going off in and around Dundee, with critical clues hidden inside the bombs themselves.

The city is on edge. Body parts wash up in a nearby loch. With only bomb fragments surviving each blast, the forensic work is exacting, and public expectation is high.

Professors Sarah Gordon (Laura Fraser) and Kathy Torrance (Jennifer Spence) need all the tenacity and self-belief they can muster to get to the truth. Professional and personal allegiances become entangled. When a bomb fails to detonate it must surely offer a forensic gift. Will the team track down the bomber before their identity goes up in smoke?

Friday 14 April at 8:30pm on ABC (binge on ABC iview).

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  1. S1 had production problems, especially with the sound in early episodes. S2 was just a mess. It failed to resolve left over elements about the lead character from S1. Then involved her in a terrible romance and subplot, that collapsed when the character left half way through. Then they had a crazy bombing and romance between the two investigators to finish it off. The best actor Jennifer Spense was also played no part in the main stories.

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