Hegarty’s World Begins to Crumble in the Gut Wrenching Sixth Episode of 'Criminal Record'

If things reached an emotional boiling point in the fifth episode, the show’s sixth outing entitled “Beehive” reaches a gutwrenching one. Once again, June spends an inordinate amount of time staring intently at her computer (this repetitive narrative device is the show’s achilles heel). This time June figures out that it’s Tony who is posting vile things about the new female Assistant Chief Constable Claudia Mayhew on social media. “Just watch; there won’t be any white or male coppers left when this whore has had her way” is a sample of the ever-charming Tony’s posts.

June confronts Tony, who denies it. June tells Tony if he tells her what happened when Hegarty got the confession out of Errol, she will keep the discovery of Tony’s online activity to herself. Tony is not having it. “I ain’t the problem. I’m the solution. You’re just a token copper,” he tells her. But after June leaves, Tony completely freaks out and sets about destroying as much evidence as he can.

Unfortunately, in the midst of all this, Errol’s mother, Doris, arrives at Tony’s house to confront him about taking away Latisha’s apartment now that Latisha is no longer feeding information to Tony. The already unstable Tony loses it even more and, in an attempt to escape the confrontation, he hits Doris with his car, killing her.