'D.I. Ray' Recap: Episode 2

D.I. Ray airs Sundays at 9:00 pm and is available to stream. Recap the previous and following episodes.
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Little seems to faze D.I. Rachita Ray—except, perhaps, for a lack of respect from her peers. But a blow to the head that knocked her unconscious while investigating a murder? That’s nothing.

Ray rouses when her colleague Tony Khatri appears at the playground where she was meeting Anjuli Kapoor, the girlfriend of the murdered Imran Aziz. Ray immediately begins giving orders, even though she’s a bit wobbly from a mild concussion. Khatri tries to get her to rest, but eventually relents and simply accompanies her to knock on nearby doors to ask if anyone saw anything about her attacker or Anjuli.

When more police officers arrive, including Ray’s disapproving boss, Ray tries to keep leading the investigation but vomits and is ordered to go to the hospital.

Both her parents and her new fiancé, Martyn, visit her there—Khatri called them, to Ray’s displeasure. They all want her to take it easy and stay with one of them for a bit, but Ray insists on speaking to a nurse and getting discharged so that she can get back to work.

So she’s back on the job to watch as Anjuli is pulled out of a river, dead. Anjuli’s car was found nearby with bottles of alcohol and pills in it, and her corpse shows signs of both in her system but no indication of a struggle. She drowned to death. Was it a suicide?

Ray doesn’t believe it, and the fact that there’s no algae in Anjuli’s lungs mean she didn’t drown in the river. Perhaps she was drowned in a bathtub then moved so that it looked like a suicide. If a towel was used to hold her under, there might not be bruising or signs of a struggle.

Anjuli’s brother Navin is once again arrested, to Ray’s anger. A relative of Anjuli with whom she was staying claims to have seen Navin arguing with Anjuli only a couple hours before Anjuli went to meet Ray and then disappeared. Navin says he hasn’t seen Anjuli but eventually admits that she called him and told him she wanted to talk to the police. He visited her and tried to convince her not to, since he doesn’t trust the police. He just wanted her to come home.

The police finally manage to hack Aziz’s burner phone, which Anjuli left for Ray. It only has texts to a single number, all in the past few months. One mentions “T&C,” and Anjuli told Ray that Aziz’s business was being used by a dangerous associate for much more than “tango and cash.” “Tango” is a street name for fentanyl. Furthermore, the number Aziz was texting is linked to the same business account that had recently been paying Aziz’s company. Perhaps his company was being used to import drugs.

The business account linked to all of this is attached to NQD Logistics, which appears to be a front. But it does have one name associated with it: Nick Davies. Ray orders her team to look into him.

At home, she takes a relaxing bath—and suddenly someone is pushing her under the water with a towel over her face. They flee after just a moment, and Ray’s boyfriend Martyn walks in to the house—the door was open. He says he saw someone running away.

Ray believes whoever killed Anjuli is trying to intimidate her, by attacking her in the way that she thinks Anjuli was murdered. She doesn’t want to report the incident, to fellow police officer Martyn’s horror, lest her superiors take her off the case. But Martyn convinces her to, and to stay at his place.

There, she tells him about the therapy she was required to take after the first attack on her. She was surprised to find it helpful. The therapist was also South Asian, and Ray opened up about a lot of things: how she thinks her colleagues dismiss her (hence her insane devotion to this case); how she has never fit in, feeling neither white enough nor South Asian enough; how she hated her dad for not doing anything when he was once angrily called a “Paki” in front her; how she hasn’t told her parents that she is engaged, even though they love Martyn. Ray promises Martyn that she’ll share news of the engagement with her parents.

She also has to meet Martyn’s parents. She has already spent time with his pregnant sister, who knows that they are engaged. She finally goes to Martyn’s parents’ home to have dinner, but quickly leaves when she receives a phone call that Kabir Kapoor wants to talk to her. Martyn is upset by her decision to abandon the meal.

A nightclub landlord called the police on Kabir because he was drunk and smashed a window. The landlord knows that Kabir’s sister was murdered and doesn’t want to press charges. But Kabir kept asking the police to speak to Ray. He insists that Navin wouldn’t hurt Anjuli, and shares that he overheard Anjuli arguing with Aziz over the phone in the middle of the night a few days before Aziz was killed. Aziz had told Anjuli he wasn’t going to see some person anymore, but Anjuli had found out he was meeting the person that night, sparking the argument.

Ray calls her team in to work even though it’s late, causing some distress in Khatri’s house since his son doesn’t want him to leave. Ray admits to Khatri that she has never dated an Asian man, to his amusement, and that she mostly had white friends at school.

Camera footage shows Anjuli’s car near the playground where she met Ray only an hour after Ray was attacked. The car seems empty, but a hooded man approaches it.

When Aziz’s car is identified on camera near a freight yard on the night he argued with Anjuli, Ray takes Khatri with her to investigate the freight yard—perhaps there’s evidence of drug running there. Ray’s boss calls her as they’re driving there, but Ray hangs up when her boss tries to stop her.

Ray and Khatri search for the container owned by Aziz, which records show hasn’t been moved. They quickly get a warrant to search it and a team to break it open—and Ray’s boss also arrives, unhappy.

Inside the container they find numerous corpses, and one young man who’s barely alive.