'I, Jack Wright' Introduces 12 Suspects in a Double Episode Premiere

And you think your family has problems?

I, Jack Wright, the new series from Chris Lang (Unforgotten), kicks off with the apparent suicide of the title character (Trevor Eve), a millionaire on his third wife. As one can imagine, with that many wives, Jack leaves behind many, many confused and not-so-happy family members. They become even more unhappy once it is revealed Jack, unbeknownst to anyone, had changed lawyers and rewritten his will a mere month before his death.

DCI Hector Morgan (Harry Lloyd) and DC Jones (Liz Kingsman) are the detectives assigned to the case. Hector is immediately suspicious of calling Jack’s death a suicide. Who shoots themselves in the chest? “This is going to turn into one of your investigations, isn’t it?” his boss says to him with exasperation. But Hector is right. Jack was murdered, and the suspects are many. The housekeeper tells DC Jones that everyone in the household knew that Jack went alone to tend to his pigeons every night at 10 p.m., which is where Jack’s body was found. 

The series is structured with all the key players being interviewed in the present day, accompanied by flashbacks to when Jack died two years ago. Let’s review the full dozen possible suspects introduced in the show's double episode premiere.

Rose (Gemma Jones): Jack’s first wife. She’s in her doctor’s waiting room with her partner Bobby (James Fleet) when Sally calls her with the news of Jack’s death. Rose has seemingly untreatable cancer, but the £500,000 Jack leaves her could help pay for an experimental treatment.

Gray Wright (John Simm): Jack and Rose’s firstborn son. An aspiring music producer with a nasty cocaine problem, Gray is trouble and in trouble. He owes £50,000 to a man who keeps breaking his nose. He has a fractured relationship with Rose, who he calls a “bitch” during one argument (he’s a charmer that Gray) and an almost non-existent one with his father who he hasn’t seen in years and who he still resents for never coming to a single one of his gigs. 

He thinks things are going to change when his father dies. That millions are coming his way. But Jack only leaves him £10,000, not enough money to even make a dent in his troubles. He steals £10,000 from his girlfriend, Bella (Sabrina Bartlett), and is trying to get other family members to join him in a lawsuit to reclaim what is rightfully theirs.

Emily (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis): Jack’s granddaughter/Gray’s daughter. Jack leaves her £15 million and the controlling shares of the company, naming her CEO. Emily claims to be just shocked about this (think Taylor Swift’s surprised face when she wins a Grammy), but it certainly seems like she was privy to what would happen when her grandfather died. 

She has a boyfriend/business partner who wants her to come home and run the business they’ve started, but also a secret boyfriend, Reuben, who is deeply involved in whatever is going on. “We weren’t prepared for him dying now. None of this was meant to happen for a very long time,” he tells her. 

Reuben (Percelle Ascott): He is the most suspicous of the bunch so far. He’s seen getting something wrapped in a cloth (a gun?) and burning it by the end of the second episode. But there are six episodes in this series so it’s far too early for Reuben to be the actual culprit. 

Sally Wright (Nikki Amuka-Bird): Jack’s third and current wife. She’s in Paris when her husband dies. They speak on the phone. She’s complaining about their son Josh and his lack of motivation. “I do love you,” Jack says to his wife before hanging up the phone. Sally is devastated when the next morning, she gets the news of his death, and even more devastated when she finds out her husband left her nothing. She only has access to their three homes for the next five years. After that, the homes are to be sold with the proceeds donated to charity. 

Although she had signed a prenup before they got married, Sally is in shock about the will. It is nothing like the one she had seen. Surely her husband must not have been mentally well. Surely he had dementia. Sally gets herself a lawyer and agrees that her husband’s body must be exhumed so that they can prove he was mentally compromised. Although she denies it to her lawyer, Sally seems to be having an affair. Perhaps Jack knew about that, and it’s the reason she is cut out of the will? 

Oh, and one other thing: now, two years later, Sally is in prison. However, for what exactly, we do not yet know. “It’s not as simple as that, is it?” she says to the camera.

Josh (Samuel Small) and Daisy (Eden Hollingsworth) Wright: Sally and Jack’s two teenage children. Jack left £10 million to Daisy to be held in trust until she’s 30 and left nothing to his son Josh. 

John Wright (Daniel Rigby): Jack and Rose’s second-born son. He works for his father’s company, and upon his father’s death, the board names him the new CEO. There’s only one problem with this plan. His father left him only £10,000 and named someone else as the CEO of the company. His shares in the company were reduced from 10% to 0% in the new will.. “He’ll thank me for it in the end,” Jack had told his lawyer when he wrote the will. John isn’t so sure he wants to contest the will. He will be taking money from his own mother. 

Georgia Wright (Zoë Tapper): John’s wife who is extremely not pleased that they have inherited next to nothing. “I want you to contest it hard,” she tells her husband. “You remember hard, don’t you?”

Derek Coates (Tim Faraday): He runs Jack’s estate and is immediately suspicious about the circumstances surrounding Jack’s death.. “I’d be very surprised if this were accidental,” he tells the detectives. Jack leaves him £1 million.

Annie Rouse (Niamh Cusack): Jack’s executive assistant, who probably knows much more than she is letting on. Jack leaves her £1 million. 

Asha Bell: Jack’s daughter from his second marriage. (Jack's second wife died in 2014, hence her absence from this list). Jack leaves Asha £2 million. The only problem is that no one knows where she is, and the audience has yet to see her.

I, Jack Wright continues on UKTV in the U.K. with new episodes streaming on Wednesdays, and BritBox in the U.S. with new episodes streaming on Thursdays, through the end of May 2025.