Six 4 landed on ITV1 this Sunday, and we’ve received to confess episode 1 had us hooked from the beginning.
The four-part sequence initially aired solely on ITVX in March 2023, however now will get the Sunday night time primetime slot it deserves.
The opening scene is sort of a punch within the guts. Not content material with being on BBC One at 9pm in Boiling Point, Vinette Robinson additionally seems in Six 4 as mum Michelle O’Neill. The previous police officer and her husband DC Chris O’Neill, who continues to be on the power, should establish the physique of a useless lady.
It’s a sledgehammer begin to the sequence. However fortunately for Michelle and Chris, the useless lady shouldn’t be their lacking daughter Olivia. We be taught that their daughter has vanished with out a hint.
Glasgow detective Chris O’Neill is devastated, as his spouse Michelle goes to London to seek for her. Chris is then approached by a journalist a couple of chilly case involving one other lacking lady. May they be linked?
Listed here are all of the questions now we have after watching gripping thriller Six Four.
***Warning: spoilers from episode 1 of Six 4 forward***
Kevin McKidd as DC Chris O’Neill in Six 4 (Credit score: ITV)
Six 4 episode 1 questions: The place is their daughter Olivia?
Olivia has been lacking for 3 weeks. That is all we all know. Chris and Michelle’s daughter left her cellphone charging at dwelling and vanished. Michelle even searches the faces of the homeless ladies dwelling on the streets for her.
In an uncomfortable dialog together with his brother, who he clearly isn’t near, Chris (Trainspotting star Kevin McKidd) mentioned: “Nothing occurred. I don’t know why she left. She simply left.”
Speaking to Jim Mackie, Chris defined: “She went to Central Station and took a practice to Edinburgh. We noticed it on the CCTV. After which she disappeared. She didn’t have her financial institution card on her, or her cellphone. We went to all of the shelters, the hospitals, made flyers… However we haven’t heard from her in three weeks. Not even a cellphone name.”
Is Olivia’s disappearance linked to a chilly case?
Freelance journalist Sam talked to Chris a couple of chilly case involving a lacking lady referred to as Julie Mackie. She disappeared 16 years earlier than and “was everywhere in the papers on the time”. Though Chris didn’t work on the case, his brother Philip (Andrew Whipp) did.
Chris advised her: “It was a very long time in the past. It wasn’t good, as a result of they by no means discovered the lady. They didn’t resolve it, and she or he’s nonetheless lacking.”
Julie’s dad Jim Mackie, performed by James Cosmo, believed his daughter had been kidnapped. Sam revealed she has data that Jim obtained a cellphone name to the home from the kidnapper, however the police lined it up. And Chris’ brother was a part of it. He actually appeared twitchy about it when Chris requested him.
Are the police “corrupt”, and is any of this linked to Olivia’s disappearance? And can journalist Sam blackmail Chris to get data? In any case, she might simply blab about their relationship to one another.
Chris began to look into the disappearance of Julie Mackie, and discovers that her dad Jim Mackie was an individual of curiosity. However was he arrange? Jim believed his cellphone was tapped after she disappeared. May the police be concerned?
It might seem so, as Sam quickly discovered a black SUV terrorising her on the highway in an obvious bid to silence her.
Vinette Robinson as Michelle in Six 4 (Credit score: ITV)
Six 4 episode 1 questions: What’s happening between Chris and Michelle?
Chris and Michelle have a standard aim – to seek out their lacking daughter Olivia. However they don’t precisely appear to be supporting one another by way of the ordeal. Actually, she appeared to flinch when he touched her. And he or she disappeared to London with out speaking it by way of along with her husband (see beneath).
Throughout Six 4 episode 1, Chris obtained a name from a girl referred to as Samantha Wishart (performed by the good actress Selin Hizli, who created Am I Being Unreasonable? alongside Daisy Could Cooper).
They met, and it’s clear one thing has occurred between them, with Samantha calling herself his “mistake”. That would nicely clarify Michelle’s frostiness in the direction of her husband. In fact, Sam is the journalist who’s investigating the chilly case.
What’s Michelle’s previous in London?
Through the opening episode of Six 4, Michelle (Vinette Robinson) introduced her intention to journey to London in a bid to seek out her lacking daughter. However husband Chris wasn’t eager.
He requested her: “I assumed you had been by no means going to London once more?” He additionally warned her it was “harmful”. What’s Michelle’s previous with London? And will it have something to do with why she’s now not a copper?
She actually appeared ready to get away from Edinburgh. Michelle had a cap and a hoodie prepared to vary into so she might give her husband the slip on the practice station…
As soon as in London, she purchased a burner cellphone and referred to as a person referred to as Tony (Patrick Robinson). Calling herself Sarah Jones, she advised him she wanted to fulfill up. She clearly hadn’t spoken to this individual for a while, so why then? She went to fulfill Tony armed with a weapon, so she clearly felt unsafe…
Assembly up with Tony, Michelle advised him she wanted to get in contact with Piers… To which Tony replied: “Are you mad after what you probably did to him? You set him in jail for 10 years. He’ll kill you.”
So who’s Piers? Did Michelle work undercover below the id of Sarah? And will Piers have any involvement in Olivia’s disappearance? Michelle later referred to as her husband and advised him: “I have to do one thing.”
James Cosmo as Jim Mackie in Six 4 (Credit score: ITV)
What’s Six 4?
After discovering Chris was a policeman, a livid Jim Mackie misplaced his mood. He attacked Chris, saying: “The safety companies took my daughter. They murdered her. As a result of I knew about Six 4.”
As Chris requested “what’s Six 4” he was thrown out of the home. Anyone else getting Line of Duty ‘bent copper’ vibes?
On the finish of episode 1, one other younger lady is attacked and bundled into the boot of a automotive with the sticker Higher Collectively on the bumper. How is that this all linked?
Six Four episode 2 airs on Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 9pm on ITV1. All four episodes are currently available to watch on ITVX.
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Helen Worry has been writing about all issues TV and leisure for greater than 20 years, beginning as a TV reviewer at Time Out within the (whisper it…) 90s. She has additionally labored as a TV Editor for Day by day Categorical, Nearer, OK! and Reveal. When Helen’s not writing about TV, she’s obsessively watching it – and at present binge-watching Australian Survivor on Amazon Prime, and naturally Huge Brother on ITVX. In addition to a actuality present fan, Helen can also be a sucker for against the law drama, and is awaiting Shetland’s return with baited breath…