'D.I. Ray' Recap: Episode 4

D.I. Ray airs Sundays at 9:00 pm and is available to stream. Recap the previous episode.
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Not only has D.I. Ray just lost a colleague and lover, she is now being blamed in part for his death. In an interview with the superintendent about the shooting of Tony Khatri outside her home, the superintendent says that Magnus Tranter, whom Ray believes was one of two men on a motorbike that sped past and shot at Khatri, was probably trying to kill her. The superintendent is concerned that Ray didn’t know she was being watched by Tranter.

She is sent to a hotel for her safety, and doesn’t even share its location with her fiancé, Martyn. He asks her why Khatri was at her house, and how he knew she would be there. She comes up with an excuse.

Ray is struggling with Khatri’s death. She goes to a gurdwara for a service celebrating his life and has to leave in the middle, overcome by tears.

She demands to speak with Maureen Groves, the intelligence officer who warned her that Tranter is the subject of an ongoing covert drug investigation involving huge amounts of cocaine and heroin. Groves doesn’t want Ray to jeopardize that investigation, but Ray insists on speaking to the office in charge of handling Imran Aziz, who was informing on the drug operation before he was killed. Groves says she will try to set up a meeting.

The police learn from some digging that one of the kids of Laura Milne, the woman involved in a domestic assault incident with Tranter, is Tranter’s. They find her house empty; she left in a hurry. But they track down another address through her children’s school: a teacher said a man matching Tranter’s description picked up the kids sometimes and brought them there.

The police search that address and find it mostly empty, although there are some random items hidden in a couch, including a scan of a passport of a Sri Lankan woman and a videotape.

Meanwhile, Laura’s credit card is flagged by the police at a train station. They rush to catch her and her children before they board a train. Laura explains that she didn’t want to be wrapped up in Tranter’s business, and that’s why she lied about her relationship with him and was leaving town to stay with her mom. She got pregnant by accident, and doesn’t see Tranter except for when he occasionally drops off cash or things. He’s constantly using different phones—and one of them keeps calling his son while he’s at the police station. But the phone is quickly deactivated, so the police can’t track it.

But they have the videotape from Tranter’s apartment. Ray starts to watch it and quickly sends her colleague Carly away when a man on the tape takes off his shirt to reveal a distinctive scar on his back. After having sex with the woman whose passport was found with the tape, he finally turns and his face is visible: it’s Martyn. The tape is labelled 2007, which would mean the girl was 15 years old at the time.

Ray goes and cries.

Then she gets back to business, calling another department to find any records regarding sex workers from 2007. And then she goes to Martyn’s.

She tells him about the larger drug investigation that is going on, and her frustration that she feels stymied and is having trouble getting in touch with Aziz’s handler. He encourages her to drop the case so that she doesn’t interfere with the larger operation.

The next day, Ray briefs her team on the drug investigation. But she talks about the videotape only to Carly. She has learned that there was an attempted robbery on a brothel a week before the recording was made—and that one of the investigating police officers is the man in the recording (Martyn, not that she tells Carly that). Ray hasn’t put the tape into evidence yet so as not to put up any red flags with corrupt police officers.

Instead, she and Carly go to visit the woman in the tape. They explain that they know she was trafficked, and ask about the brothel and robbery. The woman reluctantly tells them that her bosses saw that Martyn was interested in her and told her that if she had sex with him she could get her passport back and stop working in the brothel. She identifies Tranter as one of her bosses.

Ray sends the woman to a safe house, and then gets a text from Aziz’s handler asking to meet.

She goes to the seedy, isolated hotel and checks the hotel room for bugs before she hears a knock at the door. It’s Martyn. He wordlessly pats her down, checking for a wire.

Satisfied, he asks for her copy of the videotape. Other corrupt cops have already made sure the one she submitted to evidence has been scrubbed of him. He explains that he was set up by Tranter and the brothel owners/traffickers: they told him the girl was 19, and then used the tape and her passport, denoting her real age, as blackmail against him so that he started working for them.

He warned them that Aziz was informing on them so that they could scare him out of it, but they killed him instead—and then things spiraled out of control when Ray was named to the investigation, and Anjuli, and Karl Shaw, and Khatri were all killed too.

Ray refuses to give him her copy of the tape, and so he goes with her outside. He starts to drag her to Tranter, who’s waiting by a car. As he roughly hands her over, police descend on all sides.

Ray had set a trap for Martyn, knowing that if she complained about not being able to speak to Aziz’s handler he would take the opportunity to pose as the handler once he knew that she had seen the tape, in order to try to recover it from her. Martyn refuses to answer any questions under interrogation.

Ray visits Anjuli’s family to pay her respects and apologize for the way they were treated. She then celebrates the closure of the case with her team at Khatri’s regular pub. They all toast him.

Ray’s bosses are less happy with how the investigation has shaken out. The superintendent informs her that she will be investigated because of her relationship with the corrupt Martyn. That, along with the allegations of bullying against her and her continual ignoring of orders from her boss, means that she will be suspended for a period. Another team will take up her investigation into the other players involved with Tranter and the human trafficking she uncovered. The superintendent apologizes to Ray for putting her on a case when she wasn’t ready for it.

But Ray did at least prove herself to some people. While her boss goes along with the superintendent, she does tell Ray that she disagrees with him on one thing. Ray was ready for the case.