The Wallaces run the largest salmon farm in Shetland. Duncan (Perez’s stepfather) warns: “Don’t pull that thread, Jimmy. The Wallaces built half the piers in these isles.”
DI Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall, weary but sharp) stares at the compass. Engraved: “T.M. – 1943” . Tosh runs the name: Thomas Manson, a Shetland “Bus” operator — ferried agents to Nazi-occupied Norway. Officially died at sea in ’44. But the skeleton has a clean fracture to the skull. Not the war. Murder. shetland s05e03 bdmv
A skeleton found in a collapsed WWII bunker forces Perez to confront a 70-year-old crime — and a present-day cover-up that reaches Lerwick’s most respected family. The Wallaces run the largest salmon farm in Shetland