Identity - Series 1 episode guide
Identity is a new six part ITV1 drama series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, following an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime.
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Episode 1: Second Life
Monday 5th July 2010
Justin Curtis (John Hopkins) has shot a PC who wanted to arrest him for the hit and run of Audrey Byrne (Dorothy Duff). Curtis claims he has been set up by ‘Smith’, a sadistic identity thief intent on destroying his life. The Identity Unit prove that Curtis couldn’t have committed the crime. The team go back over all the cases of wholesale identity fraud over the last few years and two more similar cases emerge. Bloom (Aidan Gillen) is convinced that ‘Smith’ is punishing his victims for playing away from home. Bloom knows that Curtis has a secret life – as soon as Bloom persuades him to spill, he uncovers the real identity of ‘Smith’. Martha (Keeley Hawes) and Bloom have him in their sights – will they catch him or will he outwit them once more?
Episode 2: Chelsea Girl
Monday 12th July 2010
The Identity Unit are investigating the murder of British Olivia Knighton (Laura Aikman) in Australia. Hours after her death, records showed another woman using her passport to enter the UK. A game of cat and mouse ensues but the impostor Jane Calshaw (Joanne Froggatt) remains one step ahead. Once Bloom (Aidan Gillen) realises they are dealing with someone fulfilling a psychological need rooted in childhood, he knows they have to find Jane’s dad in order to work out what she’s got planned. Eventually Bloom has to pull out all the stops to get Jane to confess what she’s done to her father’s new fiancé. He gets the result but the rest of the team are left unsettled by his methods – especially Anthony (Shaun Parkes)...
Episode 3: Pariah
Monday 19th July 2010
Amy Quilan (Sarah Smart) is on the witness protection scheme after she was convicted of helping her husband Brian (Ian Dunn) kidnap Lucy Sinclair ten years ago – a kidnap that resulted in Brian being convicted for the little girl’s murder. When her true identity is revealed on a blog, the Identity Unit are called in to help protect her. When Bloom’s secret life as Brendan calls for him to leave the safe house to deal with his lover Adile’s brother all hell breaks lose when Amy’s son Sam (Harrison Edwards) is abducted on Bloom’s watch. The Identity Unit have to work out a way of meeting the kidnapper’s ransom demand – and that means finding out one way or another where Brian buried Lucy. But Bloom (Aidan Gillen) can’t help feeling that Amy is holding something back. When he witnesses her reunion with Sam, Bloom’s convinced that she’s really not as innocent as she claims. His hunch pays off when the team follow her and find out that she planned the whole abduction in order to get the money.
Episode 4: Reparation
Monday 26th July 2010
Bansi Dutta (Ramon Tikaram) is about to buy a UK company and the British government are very keen to see the deal done. When Bansi’s dentist claims an impostor has taken Bansi’s place the Identity Unit are asked to surreptitiously get a DNA swab to prove that Bansi is the real Bansi in order that the government doesn’t give £50 million to an imposter. Bloom (Aidan Gillan) has to work undercover to get a swab – but Bansi is ill, reclusive and highly protected. When Bloom finds the ‘real’ Bansi imprisoned, Bansi’s nurse stymies him – Jamilla (Shivani Ghai) knows what’s in the boot of Bloom’s car – the dead body of Atif (Youssef Kerkour). If he blows their cover, she’ll blow his. Bloom’s got to work out what’s more important – saving his own skin or doing his job properly?
Episode 5: Somewhere They Can’t Find Me
Monday 2nd August 2010
When Miriam Brolin’s (Jenny Seagrove) DNA matches that of wanted criminal Nadia – a revolutionary turned terrorist who’s been on the run for 25 years – the Identity Unit’s job is to get her to confess to being an accomplice to a murder of an innocent bystander that her fellow comrade Marco Robson (Clive Russell) was convicted of. Miriam and Marco abscond together and help comes in the form of DCS Robert Thacker (Tom Mannion) – the original investigator on the case. Soon he’s forced to reveal that before Miram was ‘Nadia’ she was ‘Sandra’, an undercover officer infiltrating the terrorist group for Thacker. Eventually it transpires that Marco didn’t kill the bystander, it was Sandra – and Thacker made sure that Marco took the wrap for it. Miriam’s intention was to clear Marco’s name but she will stop at nothing to make sure Thacker doesn’t blow her cover to Marco.
Episode 6: Tomorrow Comes Early
Monday 9th August 2010
It’s the worst day of Bloom’s life. The Identity Unit have had an anonymous tip off to the location of Atif’s body. Anthony (Shaun Parkes) followed Bloom (Aidan Gillen) and saw the whole thing and he’s intent on making Bloom quit. Bloom soon catches on that Anthony’s knows something – but when Adile (Agni Scott) is brought in to the unit for an interview, Bloom sees that he has no choice but to resign. His ‘other’ life comes back to haunt him in the worst way when Martha (Keeley Hawes) is abducted by Halit (Ken Bones), Adile’s father. Martha manages to somehow get through to Bloom that he’s got to stop living a lie and he is forced to decide between his love of Adile and being John Bloom, full time...
