Alex wakes up to find herself back in 1983 where Gene Hunt is on the run after shooting her, three months previously. His unit is being run by none other than Ray! Meanwhile the rest of the unit in involved with the abduction of Dorothy, a young girl, on her way to school. To make matters worse a ransom is demanded by the kidnappers, and it's up to the team to find the culprits - fast.—Anonymous
Alex appears to be in the present day talking to a therapist who tells her "The world you knew doesn't exist" but, after seeing the faces of her old colleagues on television screens in an electrical supermart she wakes up back in 1983. Hunt has been suspended for shooting her by keen young DCI Jim Keats and Ray promoted to inspector. Little Dorothy Blonde has been kidnapped for a ransom and hunt returns unofficially to discover that her father's business is in a mess and her stepmother was once married to an arch-criminal.Alex is paramount in cracking the case and saving Dorothy though she gives Hunt the credit. He is reinstated but Jim makes it clear he hates him and aims to bring him down. Alex feels Jim may be part of her life in the twenty-first century and also sees recurring images of a policeman with half his face blown away.—don @ minifie-1