DI Ray viewers all say same thing minutes into second series as ITV show returns

DI Ray has returned to ITV with a marque caller bid arsenic Parminder Nagra's quality investigates a fatal drive-by shooting of an guiltless caregiver extracurricular a Birmingham hospital

DI Ray viewers were each near saying the aforesaid happening arsenic they tuned into the archetypal occurrence of the 2nd series.

Fans volition retrieve ITV bid made its TV debut backmost successful May 2022 starring Parminder Nagra, pursuing Rachita Ray arsenic she investigated the execution of high-profile transgression Imran Aziz, each against a backdrop of systemic racism successful the constabulary force.

Weeks aft her suspension, DI Ray was backmost successful the blistery spot connected Sunday (October 20) arsenic bid 2 kicked disconnected with a fatal drive-by shooting of an guiltless caregiver extracurricular a Birmingham hospital.

The don of the Chapman pack was gunned down alongside a young caregiver extracurricular of Birmingham hospital. The caregiver was successful the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time, truthful fans are made to believe, but the execution of Frank Chapman signaled a brewing pack war.

However, earlier the play kicked off, fans rushed to their keyboards to stock their excitement astatine the instrumentality of the fashionable tv series. Taking to X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, 1 instrumentality penned: "So gladsome #DIRay is back." Another added: "Good to person #DIRay back." A 3rd idiosyncratic wrote: :Thank you, @ITV for yet letting the UK ticker bid 2 of #DIRay.

Viewers aboriginal learned that DCI Kerry Henderson (Gemma Whelan) fought to bring Rachita backmost onto the unit and Supt Beardsmore (Ian Puleston-Davies) was inactive thinly veiling his racism and contempt for Rachita being backmost astatine the office.

She's cleared of each criminality surrounding her fiancé Martin's (Jamie Bamber) enactment trafficking exploits, and Beardsmore fto her disconnected with "words of advice" for "bullying" and not playing good with management. However, determination was nary clip to bask java successful the breakroom, due to the fact that the gangs were already moving connected their retribution for the execution earlier Rachita tin record an archetypal report.

The lone eyewitness to Frank's execution got beaten wrong an inch of his beingness earlier Rachita's squad could way him down. When interviews with the Chapman household proved unfruitful, the inspector decided to interrogation section store owners.

She came crossed a shawarma cook who revealed tensions brewing betwixt the Chapmans and the Mochani family, who precocious moved into Birmingham from Leicester. On the aforesaid night, helium shawarma cook got threatened by masked assailants and threatened to support his rima unopen astir the Mochanis.

Rachita sent Kwesi (Peter Bankolé) to ticker the Mochani jewelry store portion she and Clive (Steve Oram) staked retired Frank's wake. It soon became wide that the Chapmans were alert they are being watched, but they didn't cognize astir Kwesi keeping an oculus connected the Mochani shop. Two much masked men aboriginal kidnap Rav Mochani (Taha Rahim) and propulsion him into the backmost of an unmarked van.

Rachita and Clive ditch the aftermath to pursuit the van and she refused to fto up adjacent though Clive begged her to dilatory the car down. They didn't person backup for chasing the van, and she astir got them killed connected the motorway. An oncoming van managed to evade Rachita and Clive, leaving Rachita swearing connected the broadside of the roadworthy arsenic she watched them get distant with Rav trapped successful the back.

Rachita knows that Frank was killed by idiosyncratic helium thought helium could spot and that the Mochanis were apt involved. The question remains: tin she fig retired who pulled the trigger earlier an all-out pack warfare erupts successful Birmingham, and tin she bash it without wholly losing herself successful the lawsuit erstwhile again

The 2nd bid of DI Ray has six hour-long episodes - 2 much than the archetypal season. The archetypal occurrence of DI Ray play 2 aired connected Sunday, October 20 astatine 9pm connected ITV1. The 2nd occurrence follows connected Monday, October 21 astatine the aforesaid time, with occurrence 3 going retired connected Wednesday, October 22 astatine 9pm. All episodes volition beryllium disposable to watercourse connected ITVX aft the archetypal occurrence is aired.

All episodes of DI Ray are disposable to ticker connected ITVX