Season 2 - 8 Episodes
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All roads lead to Sid
Jared Chesterfield is dead.
But in Antibes, the questions surrounding his death are only beginning.
As Maureen struggles with grief, she makes a disturbing discovery: €200,000 has disappeared from the fortune hidden beneath the villa. Terrified, she calls her oldest friend and confidante, Dawn Hayes, who immediately flies to France. Standing beside the shallow private cove where Jared supposedly drowned, Dawn reaches a conclusion that will drive the entire season:
Jared Chesterfield did not simply swim out and die.
And Dawn already has a suspect.
Sid Singh.
She is not alone.
Margret initially refuses to administer Midazolam in Maureen.
However, Margret realises she is trapped — by the stolen cash, by Jared’s death, by her fear of
losing Daisy and by the knowledge that walking away could destroy them all. Sid convinces her
that Maureen must remain alive; killing her would create a catastrophe. They only need to sedate
her long enough to authenticate the transactions.
They begin with £2 million.
It works.
Maureen wakes the following morning confused and exhausted, with no memory of what has
happened. Sid repeats the operation. Another £2 million disappears. He then begins interfering with
Maureen’s treatment, deliberately weakening her while persuading himself that everything remains
under control. Margret watches the man she trusted cross another line — and finally begins to resist
him.But Dawn is closing in from another direction.
Her investigation takes her into Jared’s British past and to the powerful Lord Rex Yardley, a man
whose extravagant lifestyle conceals serious financial problems and whose political connections
helped Jared secure access to lucrative defence circles. Their relationship was mutually dependent:
Jared needed Rex’s influence; Rex needed Jared’s money.
Then Dawn uncovers something darker.
Years earlier, a woman named Jessica Felt, who had allegedly been having an affair with Yardley
and carrying his child, died in a car crash. Jessica had been frightened before her death. Someone,
she believed, wanted the pregnancy — and the scandal surrounding it — erased.
Suddenly Jared’s fortune, his political connections and his death no longer look like pieces of a
simple family drama.
And someone else appears to be watching.
A masked intruder begins stalking the Antibes property. Daisy sees him first. Then Margret sees
him. Sid immediately assumes the man is after the hidden cash — but neither he nor Margret knows
who he is, what he knows, or whether Jared’s money belongs to something far larger than any of
them understand.
MIDAZOLAM & The Lord
The smell of a suspect
French investigator Louis Mercier has quietly kept Jared's death alive as an active investigation. Methodical and patient, Louis begins digging into Sid's background, tracing his employment history, his nursing career and his movements in Antibes. What he finds is contradictory: Sid is not an obvious killer. His past contains evidence of extraordinary courage, including saving the life of a young woman brought into A&E close to death. Yet Louis's instincts tell him that something about Jared's final hours does not fit.
He begins following Sid.
Louis follows Sid to the perfume city of Grasse and invites him for a drink. What follows is less an interrogation than a duel. Louis asks about Jared and Maureen's marriage, Jared's state of mind and whether Sid genuinely believes an experienced swimmer simply went into the sea alone and drowned.
Sid gives him the idea of suicide.
He subtly redirects Louis towards Jared's dwindling will to live — caused by the bitter war between Jared, his children and Maureen.
It is exactly where Sid wants the investigation to go.
Because before Jared died, Sid secretly used Jared's phone to send messages to Matthew, Ingrid and Claire suggesting their father regretted cutting them out of his fortune and intended to restructure the inheritance in their favour. If Jared died before making those changes, his children would have an obvious suspect:
Maureen.
Sid had created the motive before he committed the murder.
Now the trap is working.
Jared's children go to the police. Matthew becomes increasingly convinced that Maureen engineered his father's death to secure the Chesterfield fortune, while Jared's sister publicly attacks Maureen in the press. Louis cannot ignore their allegations. When he encounters Dawn following Sid through Antibes, he reveals the existence of Jared's final messages and the family's belief that Maureen had Jared killed before he could change his will.
For Dawn, it is further proof that something has been manufactured.
She urges Louis to look at Sid and Margret.
But Dawn is hiding something too.
She knows about the millions in cash beneath the villa.
Louis does not.
And Maureen refuses to tell him.
That missing piece leaves the official investigation dangerously incomplete.
While Louis works from the outside, Dawn begins her own investigation from inside the villa. She interrogates Sid without appearing to interrogate him, examines Margret's financial problems and follows the pair through Antibes. Sid counters brilliantly. He tells Maureen and Dawn that Jared had secretly been asking him to transport bundles of cash to his estranged children — even producing money he claims he never delivered.
To Maureen, it sounds like another hidden side of her dead husband.
To Dawn, it sounds like an alibi.
Her theory hardens: Margret desperately needed money, Sid became involved, they began stealing from Jared, Jared discovered them — and Sid killed him.
What Dawn does not understand is how close she is.
Louis applies pressure from another direction.
He summons Margret to the cove and confronts her over her mysterious journeys to Britain and the discovery that Daisy returned to France with her. Margret finally admits the truth about Tate Goodridge and explains that she took Daisy because she believed the child was in danger.
Louis now understands that Margret is hiding far more than she first admitted.
He also discovers something strategically important:
Margret is frightened.
And frightened people eventually talk.
Meanwhile, Sid discovers that Jared's offshore structure is connected to his investment portfolio at Haarling Asset Management. If he can gain access, the hundreds of thousands hidden beneath the villa suddenly become insignificant.
There are millions within reach.
But there is a problem.
The account requires Maureen's face and fingerprint.
Sid's solution is horrifyingly simple.
Midazolam.
Maureen's dark Dawn
THE SECRETS THAT KEEP THEMSELVES........
Dawn tracks down, Mihai Cosma, the Romanian driver who rammed his truck intoJessica Felt’s car, killing her.
She confronts him with what she has discovered: he is terminally ill, he was never paid what he was
promised — and Dawn knows where the money intended for him is hidden.
The man stops walking.
For the first time, somebody may be ready to expose what really happened to Jessica Felt.
When a further £2 million transfer is blocked, Maureen finally sees the bank alert.
Everything changes.
Terrified, she calls Dawn. Dawn tells her the truth she has resisted since Jared died: Sid is inside her
home, has access to her life and, if he murdered Jared, Maureen may be next.
Together they set a trap.
Maureen secretly restores the transaction, allowing Sid to believe his theft has succeeded. They
move Dawn’s hidden camera into Jared’s bedroom, positioning it directly over the computer.
Maureen hides her laptop which Sid was using to push Sid to use Jared’s desktop. If Sid comes back
for more, he will have to use Jared’s desktop, the camera will be on him and they will finally have
him.
Sid takes the bait.
With Maureen drugged once again, her face and fingerprints are used to authorise a massive transfer
into Sid’s newly created financial company.
The camera records everything.Then Dawn’s phone alerts her.
She opens the secret camera feed and watches Sid use an incapacitated Maureen to steal her fortune.
At last, she has proof.
But Dawn never gets the chance to use it.
A masked figure appears behind her.
A rope tightens around her neck.
Within seconds, Dawn Hayes is dead.
Morning breaks over Antibes.
Margret enters Maureen’s bedroom carrying her pills and a glass of water. She tries to wake her.
Nothing.
She checks for a pulse.
Then she walks into the kitchen, finds Sid and looks him directly in the eyes.
“Maureen is dead.”
