The final installment of Lynda la Plante&s popular detective drama Tennison&s (Helen Mirren) retirement is on the cards but as her career draws to an end Jane is paying dearly for a career studded with loneliness & internally directed anger Her demons surface & she drinks them away night after night The body of a missing girl is found & a missing persons case becomes a murder hunt with her father telling some inconsistent stories Tennison&s handling of the case is spotty her concentration suffering & she is forced to admit her alcoholism after a near-accident with a young witness in her car