Sea Shaken

Sea Shaken Synopsis

Jesse Stevens lies in a coma following a brutal attack by her ex-partner, Chris Cherry. He escaped from Prison on a mission to find her and kill her. Also seriously wounded from the attack, he is on a remote island recovering, after being found near death in the sea.

His rage drives him to recover. He will find her and kill her properly next time. Jesse struggles to be free of the coma, finally coming out of it with amnesia.

Eventually, Jesse gets her memory back and starts to live a normal life again, not knowing if Chris is dead or alive. Dr Kate Cooper has moved back to Castleby to manage her fathers GP surgery, leaving her husband behind after she discovers he has been having an affair. With that chapter of her life over she wants a fresh start.

She is asked by the local Police Inspector, Steve Miller, to help look into a series of deaths in the local elderly care home community. Steve and Kate work together, looking for causes of death and explanations, growing closer as time passes. Edwina Pomeroy is a bitter troubled woman in an unhappy marriage.

She is the housekeeper for the vicarage and rules it and the Vicar with a rod of steel. Nothing happens without her knowledge. Her devotion to the vicar is all consuming.

She will do anything for the vicar. When Edwina’s husband is found dead in suspicious circumstances, this turns Steve’s investigations to the vicarage. Military intelligence officer, Sam Jones, previously thought to be missing presumed dead has been found and rescued after two horrific years of torture and mistreatment in captivity.

His wife Sophie never gave up hope that he was alive. He is returned to hospital in the UK, but is so badly wounded, that both legs need to be removed. Struggling to cope, Sam has no desire to carry on living, or to pick up the threads of family life again.

On a reluctant respite trip home to Castleby, he spends time with his wife and son, but then takes his own life, considering it the best outcome for everyone. Local fisherman Jimmy Ryan owes the local mafiosi, the Camorra, a favour. He has to pick up a yacht packed with drugs and sail it back to Castleby.

On the journey back, he comes across a man on a burning fishing boat and rescues him. The man is Chris Cherry; recovered and on the hunt for Jesse again. Chris knocks Jimmy out, steals a cache of drugs and the small dingy and heads off to Castleby, intent of selling the drugs to make some money to live on and finding Jesse to kill her once and for all.

The Camorra are ruthless in their search for the missing drugs and Chris is captured and killed. Steve’s search uncovers a ruthless killer poisoning the local elderly population and he suspects the local curate who has a troubled past. When Edwina Pomeroy is found dead, also poisoned, Steve arrests the curate, discovering by accident Edwina’s past history of poisoning elderly people, one of which was the curates beloved aunt.

Steve relaxes, confident that the killer is caught. Unbeknown to him, the killer is actually the vicar, intent on reducing his needy population.