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A Confession
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A Confession

Mon, Sep 2, 2019
  • Crime
  • Drama
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

The story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher deliberately breached police procedure and protocol to catch a killer, a decision that ultimately cost him his career and reputation.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Martin Freeman
    Martin Freeman
    as Steve Fulcher
  • Siobhan Finneran
    Siobhan Finneran
    as Elaine Pickford
  • Imelda Staunton
    Imelda Staunton
    as Karen Edwards
  • Peter Wight
    Peter Wight
    as Charlie Edwards
  • Derek Riddell
    Derek Riddell
    as Pete
  • Owain Arthur
    Owain Arthur
    as DI Sean Memory
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Episodes

1 season · 6 episodes

Ended · 6 aired
Season 1
6 episodes · 6 aired
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  • E1
    Episode 1
    Aired · Mon, Sep 2, 2019 · 60m

    When 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan goes missing after a Friday night out in Swindon, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knows that he and his team must move fast to have any chance of finding her alive. While Sian's family desperately wait for news, the police search for any clues as to where she could be.

  • E2
    Episode 2
    Aired · Mon, Sep 9, 2019 · 60m

    Steve Fulcher and his team at Wiltshire Police are faced with the chance that a senior officer at Wiltshire who has committed suicide, could be the man responsible for the disappearance of local girl Sian O'Callaghan.

  • E3
    Episode 3
    Aired · Mon, Sep 16, 2019 · 60m

    At a remote countryside location Steve Fulcher questions prime suspect Christopher Halliwell about the whereabouts of missing young woman, Sian O'Callaghan. He refuses Halliwell's requests to take him immediately to a police station and tells him that he has a chance to do the right thing and tell him where Sian is, otherwise Halliwell and his family will be "vilified" in the press.

  • E4
    Episode 4
    Aired · Mon, Sep 23, 2019 · 60m

    Lives for the residents of Swindon, Wiltshire, have been flipped on their head after the discoveries of two young murdered women by Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher in the local area. And with the second body now formally identified as that of Rebecca Godden-Edwards, Steve also has to break the news to John Godden that his daughter is dead.

  • E5
    Episode 5
    Aired · Mon, Sep 30, 2019 · 60m

    Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher is lionized in the media for leading an investigation that recovered not one, but two bodies murdered by serial killer Christopher Halliwell. But behind the scenes he is facing a disciplinary hearing at the hands of the IPCC, charged with gross misconduct.

  • E6
    Episode 6
    Aired · Mon, Oct 7, 2019 · 60m

    Benghazi, Libya provides a welcome change of scenery for former Wiltshire Police Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, having resigned from his job in Wiltshire to take on a role as a ‘security consultant' in November 2014. It is now over 3 years since he led the investigation that found murdered girls Sian O'Callaghan and Rebecca Godden-Edwards, and Fulcher is happy to be away from Gablecross Police Station.