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Bill Hixon, the former police chief of Miami, moves to Boston, Lincolnshire, England to become Chief Constable after being fired for assaulting a teenage boy who shared naked photos of his 14 year old daughter Kelsey. He is coldly received by most officers in the Boston police, especially as he's set to fire 600 employees. Despite this, he bonds quickly with the eager trainee detective Muriel Yeardsley. Bill gets involved with several open cases, as there are many to choose from: the area has the greatest murder rate in England.
It aired on Creator/{{ITV}} from 12-17 July 2019, with [[BritishBrevity six episodes]].
!Tropes:
* AmnesiacDissonance: In "Piano Man" Si seems like a nice, ordinary man who can't remember who he is. After he's been accused of robbery and murder, he fears he's guilty. [[spoiler:He was framed.]]
* DisappearedDad: [=JonJo=] Ryan, Alma's father in "Dead Men Don't Return Library Books", left her years back when she was just a girl. She looked but didn't find him. [[spoiler:He reappears in the end, reconnecting with Alma, who's in need of a liver transplant which only he's able to provide.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Kelsey tried to kill herself with pills before the events of the series after a boy she sent nude photos shared them around, though she survived.
* FeudingFamilies: In "Bad Blood in the Soil" the Gilchrist and Marek families have hated it each other for years-it's pretty notorious in the area. Still, Ray Gilchrist and Audrey Marek were engaged to be married. However, it didn't work out as Ray's father just saw this as an opportunity to get her land, so she called the marriage off. Audrey was left bitter, single and hating the Gilchrists for this.
* FishOutOfWater: American ex police chief Bill Hixon moves from Miami to Boston, Lincolnshire in England, where he sticks out like a sore thumb. He becomes the Chief Constable, to hostility from many members of the police force.
* FrameUp:
** [[spoiler:In "Piano Man" Si was framed for Blair's crimes, who had put him at the scene of a murder he committed.]]
** [[spoiler:In "Dead Men Don't Return Library Books" Alma manages to frame her father, who vanished years ago, in a string of burglaries, hoping the police can find him as she needs a liver transplant while they share a rare blood type.]]
* HeelFaithTurn:
** [[spoiler:In "Dead Men Don't Return Library Books" a petty thief, [=JonJo=] Ryan, turns out to have become a Jesuit priest and repented his criminal past.]]
** Ray Gilchrist in "Bad Blood in the Soil" has a criminal history, including assault, which he put behind him as a result of embracing Anglicanism. He tried to help other ex-offenders too, though unfortunately some didn't change and abused his charity.
* IdentityAmnesia: In "Piano Man" Si has forgotten entirely who he is. He's soon accused of being the Boston Bandit, a notorious robber and murderer. [[spoiler:It's revealed he's innocent and was framed.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: In "Piano Man" Bill arrives just in time to find Si's hung himself inside his cell and save him.
* TheIrishMob: "Nothing Behind the Curtain" involves Frank [=McGill=], a hitman who was with an Irish gang named the Maguires who went into {{witness protection}} for giving testimony that put the others away, though he'd gotten three life sentences for murder himself.
* ItsAllMyFault: In "You're Stupid Enough to Say That to a Copper?" [[spoiler:poor Charlene blames herself when Russian gangsters whom she laundered money for murdered her father after he found out and tried to stop it]].
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Alex Blair, a police detective, committed multiple robberies, murdered a witness later and framed another one for his crimes.]]
* TheMafiya: Oleg Kraznov is a powerful Russian crime boss in the area who grows into Bill's nemesis as he fights to stop Kraznov's operation.
* MissingMom: Bill's wife, Kelsey's mom, is dead in the present, with Bill him struggling to raise their daughter Kelsey as a single father.
* NoBisexuals: Bill and other people continue to call Alex gay after he kisses Kelsey, so you'd expect that at least he's still questioning if not actually bisexual.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:In "Nothing Behind the Curtain" fugitive Irish hitman Frank [=McGill=] is being sought by the son of his old boss for ratting him out, thus putting his father into prison, along with murdering his mother. However, it turns out ''[=McGill=]'' is his father, having had an affair with his mother. The man whom his son believed was his father had murdered his mother for this. In the end [=McGill=] kills his son, while taking a fatal injury himself during a shootout. He
* OffWithHisHead: In "Welcome to Boston", Bill investigates the death of a young woman, whose head was cut off somehow, then found in a field.
* OopNorth: The series takes place in Boston, Lincolnshire, so many characters have a strong local Northern English accent.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Angie in "Welcome to Boston" lost her daughter Mel and waited for a decade to find out what had become of her. [[spoiler:Upon learning, she's so distraught that she nearly kills herself.]]
* PapaBear: Bill was fired as chief of the Miama police after he beat up a teenager who shared naked photos his daughter took.
* ProfessionalKiller: Frank [=McGill=] in "Nothing Behind the Curtain" is an Irish hitman who had been put into {{witness protection}} to give testimony that took his gang down instead of serving three life sentences. However, he's suspected of committing further murders since after five burned bodies are found murdered with his signature method.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: One of the reasons Russian mobster Oleg Kraznov gets away with his crimes is through having a close relationship with the local police and crime commissioner.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Albert Gilchrist in "Bad Blood in the Soil" is a veteran of the Falklands War, which left him mentally ill. [[spoiler:He was triggered by a pylon's explosion that reminded him of being under fire and also a thief's close resemblance to an Argentinian soldier who he'd killed, beating him to death with a shovel as a result.]]
* SuicideNotMurder: [[spoiler:In "Welcome to Boston" the victim whose death Bill investigates who was beheaded turns out to have killed herself, jumping from a wind turbine which beheaded her.]]
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler:Bill talks Angie down from killing herself in "Welcome to Boston" like her daughter Mel did from guilt, believing she had caused her suicide.]]
* TeenPregnancy: In "You're Stupid Enough to Say That to a Copper?" Charlene became pregnant when she was just 14 and gave up her daughter for adoption. Bill gets chills thinking of this, as he has a 14 year old daughter himself.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Oleg Kasanov is a crime boss but he has a good image as he's also heavily involved with charity, being well known as a philanthropist.
* WitnessProtection: "Nothing Behind the Curtain" involves a hitman suspected of committing new murders who got into protection as a result of helping take down his gang. However, given this the police initially can't find him nor get his location from the agency in charge of this. [[spoiler:It's revealed even they don't know-he'd broken contact with them years earlier to escape another hitman which his gang sent after him, going underground completely.]]
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Bill Hixon, the former police chief of Miami, moves to Boston, Lincolnshire, England to become Chief Constable after being fired for assaulting a teenage boy who shared naked photos of his 14 year old daughter Kelsey. He is coldly received by most officers in the Boston police, especially as he's set to fire 600 employees. Despite this, he bonds quickly with the eager trainee detective Muriel Yeardsley. Bill gets involved with several open cases, as there are many to choose from: the area has the greatest murder rate in England.
It aired on Creator/{{ITV}} from 12-17 July 2019, with [[BritishBrevity six episodes]].
!Tropes:
* AmnesiacDissonance: In "Piano Man" Si seems like a nice, ordinary man who can't remember who he is. After he's been accused of robbery and murder, he fears he's guilty. [[spoiler:He was framed.]]
* DisappearedDad: [=JonJo=] Ryan, Alma's father in "Dead Men Don't Return Library Books", left her years back when she was just a girl. She looked but didn't find him. [[spoiler:He reappears in the end, reconnecting with Alma, who's in need of a liver transplant which only he's able to provide.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Kelsey tried to kill herself with pills before the events of the series after a boy she sent nude photos shared them around, though she survived.
* FeudingFamilies: In "Bad Blood in the Soil" the Gilchrist and Marek families have hated it each other for years-it's pretty notorious in the area. Still, Ray Gilchrist and Audrey Marek were engaged to be married. However, it didn't work out as Ray's father just saw this as an opportunity to get her land, so she called the marriage off. Audrey was left bitter, single and hating the Gilchrists for this.
* FishOutOfWater: American ex police chief Bill Hixon moves from Miami to Boston, Lincolnshire in England, where he sticks out like a sore thumb. He becomes the Chief Constable, to hostility from many members of the police force.
* FrameUp:
** [[spoiler:In "Piano Man" Si was framed for Blair's crimes, who had put him at the scene of a murder he committed.]]
** [[spoiler:In "Dead Men Don't Return Library Books" Alma manages to frame her father, who vanished years ago, in a string of burglaries, hoping the police can find him as she needs a liver transplant while they share a rare blood type.]]
* HeelFaithTurn:
** [[spoiler:In "Dead Men Don't Return Library Books" a petty thief, [=JonJo=] Ryan, turns out to have become a Jesuit priest and repented his criminal past.]]
** Ray Gilchrist in "Bad Blood in the Soil" has a criminal history, including assault, which he put behind him as a result of embracing Anglicanism. He tried to help other ex-offenders too, though unfortunately some didn't change and abused his charity.
* IdentityAmnesia: In "Piano Man" Si has forgotten entirely who he is. He's soon accused of being the Boston Bandit, a notorious robber and murderer. [[spoiler:It's revealed he's innocent and was framed.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: In "Piano Man" Bill arrives just in time to find Si's hung himself inside his cell and save him.
* TheIrishMob: "Nothing Behind the Curtain" involves Frank [=McGill=], a hitman who was with an Irish gang named the Maguires who went into {{witness protection}} for giving testimony that put the others away, though he'd gotten three life sentences for murder himself.
* ItsAllMyFault: In "You're Stupid Enough to Say That to a Copper?" [[spoiler:poor Charlene blames herself when Russian gangsters whom she laundered money for murdered her father after he found out and tried to stop it]].
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Alex Blair, a police detective, committed multiple robberies, murdered a witness later and framed another one for his crimes.]]
* TheMafiya: Oleg Kraznov is a powerful Russian crime boss in the area who grows into Bill's nemesis as he fights to stop Kraznov's operation.
* MissingMom: Bill's wife, Kelsey's mom, is dead in the present, with Bill him struggling to raise their daughter Kelsey as a single father.
* NoBisexuals: Bill and other people continue to call Alex gay after he kisses Kelsey, so you'd expect that at least he's still questioning if not actually bisexual.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:In "Nothing Behind the Curtain" fugitive Irish hitman Frank [=McGill=] is being sought by the son of his old boss for ratting him out, thus putting his father into prison, along with murdering his mother. However, it turns out ''[=McGill=]'' is his father, having had an affair with his mother. The man whom his son believed was his father had murdered his mother for this. In the end [=McGill=] kills his son, while taking a fatal injury himself during a shootout. He
* OffWithHisHead: In "Welcome to Boston", Bill investigates the death of a young woman, whose head was cut off somehow, then found in a field.
* OopNorth: The series takes place in Boston, Lincolnshire, so many characters have a strong local Northern English accent.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Angie in "Welcome to Boston" lost her daughter Mel and waited for a decade to find out what had become of her. [[spoiler:Upon learning, she's so distraught that she nearly kills herself.]]
* PapaBear: Bill was fired as chief of the Miama police after he beat up a teenager who shared naked photos his daughter took.
* ProfessionalKiller: Frank [=McGill=] in "Nothing Behind the Curtain" is an Irish hitman who had been put into {{witness protection}} to give testimony that took his gang down instead of serving three life sentences. However, he's suspected of committing further murders since after five burned bodies are found murdered with his signature method.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: One of the reasons Russian mobster Oleg Kraznov gets away with his crimes is through having a close relationship with the local police and crime commissioner.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Albert Gilchrist in "Bad Blood in the Soil" is a veteran of the Falklands War, which left him mentally ill. [[spoiler:He was triggered by a pylon's explosion that reminded him of being under fire and also a thief's close resemblance to an Argentinian soldier who he'd killed, beating him to death with a shovel as a result.]]
* SuicideNotMurder: [[spoiler:In "Welcome to Boston" the victim whose death Bill investigates who was beheaded turns out to have killed herself, jumping from a wind turbine which beheaded her.]]
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler:Bill talks Angie down from killing herself in "Welcome to Boston" like her daughter Mel did from guilt, believing she had caused her suicide.]]
* TeenPregnancy: In "You're Stupid Enough to Say That to a Copper?" Charlene became pregnant when she was just 14 and gave up her daughter for adoption. Bill gets chills thinking of this, as he has a 14 year old daughter himself.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Oleg Kasanov is a crime boss but he has a good image as he's also heavily involved with charity, being well known as a philanthropist.
* WitnessProtection: "Nothing Behind the Curtain" involves a hitman suspected of committing new murders who got into protection as a result of helping take down his gang. However, given this the police initially can't find him nor get his location from the agency in charge of this. [[spoiler:It's revealed even they don't know-he'd broken contact with them years earlier to escape another hitman which his gang sent after him, going underground completely.]]
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