The First Look at 'The Responder' Season 2 Puts Us Back on the Night Shift

The BBC has dropped a quartet of first-look images for the second season of the BAFTA-winning crime drama The Responder. A story about the emotional extremes of life on the front line of British policing, it centers on a troubled officer who finds himself demoralized, demoted, and tangled up in the city's criminal underworld.

The Responder stars Martin Freeman (Sherlock) as Chris Carson, a troubled Liverpool police officer demoted from his position as a Detective Inspector to driving the night shift at a fictionalized constabulary. But a new job doesn't mean the personal issues that landed him in the middle of an ongoing corruption probe have gone away and both his marriage and his mental health are hanging on by a thread.

But while the first season saw him make several dark, unethical decisions, and in its second, it sounds like he’ll try and pick up the pieces as best he can.