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River: Episode 2

Drama: Crime

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Episode 2

BBC One - River, Episode 2

River begins to suspect that the man he chased to his death was innocent.

Drama series. Still wracked with grief, River's mental fragility is further strained as he begins to suspect that the man he chased to his death was innocent.

Still wracked with grief over the death of his friend and partner Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson, River and his colleagues must attend her wake. There he is surprised to come across her brother Jimmy - recently released after serving sixteen years for a brutal murder, in which Stevie's own evidence was key. River reaches breaking point as he begins to suspect that the man he chased to his death was innocent. The victim's pregnant and unstable girlfriend is on the warpath and pursues River, only to find in him an unexpected ally in a confusing world.

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John River is a detective whose fractured mind traps him between the living and the dead.

John River is a brilliant detective whose fractured mind traps him between the living and the dead.

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