Calder traces the tide table page to a disused bothy near Lunna Ness. Inside: a hidden cache of encrypted marine radios and a photograph of Callum with three other men – two alive, one rumoured drowned in ’09.
Meanwhile, Tosh uncovers the missing student’s online posts about deep-sea dump sites – old munitions, cold war wreckage – and a local councillor who greenlit a private survey company’s “environmental study.” shetland s07e02 x265
DI Ruth Calder (back on loan from Police Scotland) and DS Alison “Tosh” McIntosh are already stretched thin. A missing Norwegian student, a stolen boat from Lerwick, and now a quiet murder in a community that whispers but never speaks. Calder traces the tide table page to a
In a disused salmon farm, Calder corners the killer: a widowed mother whose son was the “drowned” man from ’09. The son had tried to expose the council’s toxic dumping. Callum and the others swore a false report. She’s been unpicking the lie, one thread at a time – the student was an innocent witness. Now the tide has turned. A missing Norwegian student, a stolen boat from
Second death. The councillor’s assistant, found in a submerged car at low tide. Wrapped in the same Norwegian wool as the student’s missing scarf. The case fractures: people smugglers? salvage pirates? or something older – a silence pact from a fishing disaster covered up for fifteen years?