What happened in Marcella season 1 and 2?
MARCELLA has been thrilling fans since the first series back in 2016.
Anna Friel returns as the troubled detective for season three - so here is a quick recap of the first two series of the hit ITV show.
WARNING: Contains major spoilers from seasons 1 and 2 of Marcella.
What happened in Marcella season 1?
In season 1, Marcella Backland had taken a break from her job as a police detective to dedicate more time to her family.
But she is pulled back into it when a case that had gone unsolved fifteen years ago comes back into the focus.
A serial killer is going around town killing people by suffocating them to death.
The return of the killer allows Marcella another opportunity to get closure with the case, while also distracting herself from the personal problems in her life.
Despite several fresh murders, the case takes a more urgent turn when Grace Gibson is killed.
She is the daughter of Sylvie Gibson, a wealthy and influential business owner, who also happens to be the employer of Marcella’s husband, Jason.
It then turned out that Sylvie's stepson Henry was the killer and he confessed to all the murders.
He said he killed Grace because she was the favoruyite child and committed the other murders to cover up his first crime
What happened in Marcella season 2?
This time there was a child killer on the loose.
While renovating his house, a man discovers a dead body inside the wall that separates his apartment from the next-door person’s.
He calls the cops, and Marcella is a part of the team that investigates it.
The moment she sees the decaying corpse of the child, she recognises him - it is her son Edward’s friend, Leo, who had disappeared a couple of years ago.
As the investigation proceeds, more dead bodies surface, and several past disappearances also come to light.
After spending much of the series hunting for a man, Marcella then worked out the serial killer was in fact a woman called Jane Colletti.
She had been murdering children in order to “keep the evil in” and stop them from growing up to become abusers.
However, in a turn of events, Marcella's mental state took a turn for the worse, and she faked her own death.
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What happens in Marcella season 3?
Episode 6 series 3 of Marcella will air on ITV TONIGHT (February 23, 2021) at 9pm.
This season sees Marcella start a new life in Belfast as an undercover detective.
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She has taken on the identity of Keira and has infiltrated the infamous Maguire family.
Her quest for the truth puts her in danger, and how much of the old Marcella has she really left behind?