A young woman disappears from a nightclub, and a mental patient escapes from a hospital. Hours later, the two are found together - covered in her blood.

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Drama

Crime

From acclaimed thriller writer Lynda La Plante, The Commander follows the career of Clare Blake after her promotion to the high rank of Serious Crime Group Commander in the Metropolitan Police. Having risen to the top of her male-dominated profession, she assumes control of the Murder Review Group.

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Commander Clare Blake is head of the serious crimes unit in the male-dominated Met.

Promoted to the high-profile rank of Serious Crime Group Commander, Clare Blake assumes control of her Murder Review Team, a group of retired and serving detectives including former Superintendent George Hart who are charged with the difficult task of reviewing and reinvestigating unsolved murders.

Episode 1, Entrapment Part 1

DC Browning matches prints from the murder knife to an escaped prisoner, Murray Dickson, and they track him to his ex-wife's flat and arrest him. He admits to being in the murder flat but denies killing the girl. He claims he was told to go there by a fellow prisoner Tony Farmer, but with Farmer in jail at the time, Dickson's going down for the murder.

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