THE TOWER: S01E01

The Tower
Series 1 / Episode 1
Monday 08 November 2021
ITV/STV
21:00


Written by Patrick Harbinson
Directed by Jim Loach
Series Producer: Paul Testar
Executive Producer: Karen Thrussell
​Executive Producer: Damien Timmer
Executive Producer: Patrick Harbinson

DS Sarah Collins and her colleague, DC Steve Bradshaw, officers in the Directorate of Special Investigations (DSI), are called to an incident at Portland Tower in south east London.  They find at the bottom of the tower the dead bodies of long-serving police officer, PC Hadley Matthews, and a 15-year-old Libyan refugee, Farah Mehenni.  Up on the roof Sarah finds a traumatised five-year-old boy and a rookie police officer, PC Lizzie Adama – the only witnesses to what happened.

Sarah and Steve discover that the dead girl Farah kidnapped the boy from his home and took him to the top of the tower, but they have no idea why.  Before they can interview Lizzie she is allowed to go home by her boss, DI Kieran Shaw.  When Steve goes to Lizzie's flat, she has disappeared.  Further complicating matters, they learn from Kieran that Lizzie is a key witness in a murder case involving an organised crime figure who is still at large.  According to Kieran this may explain why Lizzie went on the run, it certainly means her life is in danger.

Sarah and Steve attempt to track Lizzie down while also trying to unravel the mystery of what happened on the roof.  The further they investigate, the more they suspect that they are being deliberately misled - that Kieran Shaw has, in Steve's words, sent them down a rabbit hole.  At the episode’s climax, Sarah and Lizzie will come face to face again, and we reveal that Kieran does indeed have something to hide.

Continues tomorrow, Tuesday 09 November 2021, at 21:00 on ITV/STV.

CAST

Gemma Whelan as DS Sarah Collins
Tahirah Sharif as PC Lizzie Adama
Jimmy Akingbola as DC Steve Bradshaw
Emmett J. Scanlan as DI Kieran Shaw
Nick Holder as PC Hadley Matthews
Karl Davies as DCI Tim Bailie
Harriet Webb as DC Alice Parker
Jim English as DC Jez Vine
Michael Karim as PC Arif Johar
Robin Morrissey as PS Fred Thompson
Sally Scott as Carrie Stoddard
Nabil Elouahabi as Younes Mehenni
Laurie Delaney as Mary Shaw
Zmira Wickick as Aliya Mehenni
Rex Parry as Ben Stoddard
Lola Elokari as Farah Mehenni
Menyee Lai as Pathologist
Joe MacAulay as Custody Sergeant