'D.I. Ray's Case Starts to Hit Too Close To Home Again in "Rivals"

Rachita Ray (Parminder Nagra) is in the thick of it now — the premiere of D.I. Ray Season 2 set up a new gang war case, but Episode 2 introduced new twists that make this investigation even stickier and too reminiscent of last season's chilling plot for comfort. The first order of business in the second episode was to find Rav Mochani (Taha Rahim) after kidnappers took him in an unmarked black van, and Rachita could not keep up with them. Clive told Rachita he wasn't interested in participating in her death-defying attempts to ruin her career, but Rachita blew him off. That may prove to be a mistake later on.

While the team tried to track down the van, they used Rav's kidnapping to get a warrant for the Mochani household. Liam was able to uncover an email between Frank Chapman, the head of the Chapman gang family who was murdered in the premiere, and Rav that indicated the two were collaborating on the child trafficking business. The photos in the email led Rachita to a woman named Dawn Hughes (Ella Dunlop), who claimed to be Rav's girlfriend. They also found one of the girls pictured in the email in Dawn's closet and took her to the authorities. You can imagine that Rachita had a chill reaction to this case adding in a sex trafficking element (That's sarcasm. She was super pissed.)

While saving a seven-year-old girl from being trafficked is definitely a win, Rachita was still feeling the pressure at work. Her lawyer pressured her to continue with her racial discrimination case against the department, but Rachita is already in so deep in this case that she wants to drop the whole thing and focus on work. Her lawyer reminded her that change will never come by accepting the department's scrap apologies, but Rachita doesn't seem interested in continuing a confrontation.