“She’s in all probability slightly bit reluctant, actually, to return to work,” Parminder Nagra admits of her character, Detective Inspector Rachita Ray, when D.I. Ray picks up with a second season on PBS on June 16.
The present’s first season ended with Rachita discovering that her fiancé, DCI Martyn Hunter (Jamie Bamber) was soiled; he was arrested and is now in jail. Through the course of the investigation, Rachita grew near and romantically concerned with PS Tony Khatri (Maanuv Thiara), and he was killed. So how is she doing at the start of Season 2, which picks up two months later, following her suspension from the pressure?
“She wasn’t left in fine condition by the top of first season after the quantity of betrayal that she went by way of, particularly along with her accomplice and the truth that we decide up so shortly after the taking pictures of Tony, [Martyn] going to jail, after which Rachita being suspended—which in my thoughts, I’m like, ‘For what motive actually? I imply, for doing my job?’ However I feel she’s in all probability slightly bit reluctant actually to return to work as a result of she’s nonetheless going again to the identical office and nonetheless coping with the identical folks,” Nagra tells TV Insider.
However DI Ray has one other murder to analyze. “It’s clearly one other delicate case and being who she is, if she’s going to go and do it, she’s going to go and do it to one of the best of her means. And that’s what I really love about Rachita, is she simply type of goes for it,” Nagra continues. “She’s simply thrust again into it, and it’s a race towards time attempting to, as with all these crime dramas, get to what’s occurring, who’s concerned, unpicking and unpacking all the pieces one step at a time.”
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The workforce is increasing in Season 2, however the detective inspector can’t assist however be cautious of, nicely, everybody, the star admits. “I feel Rachita’s suspicious of all people,” she says. “At this level, there’s nobody she will belief. The one particular person she thought she may belief was her accomplice and he turned out to be not so nice. So I feel she’s going into Season 2 from that place really, not loads of belief however eager to do her work.”
Ray and the workforce are assigned to analyze the brutal taking pictures of a younger nurse and the pinnacle of a infamous crime syndicate exterior a Birmingham hospital. “There’s already a turf struggle happening between two rival households, and since [the head of one] has been killed, there’s loads of suspicion round that and that results in tensions brewing between each households. And so Rachita actually has to get to the reality of what’s happening earlier than it fully erupts,” Nagra previews. ” The way in which that Season 2 has been shot, it’s very noir, it’s rather a lot grittier. There’s much more edge to it, which I simply love. I like the entire look of this season.”
As for her private life this season, after what occurred, it’s comprehensible that whereas she does wish to date, she’s not on the lookout for something critical.
“She’ll see the way it goes, nevertheless it’s, once more, to do with belief,” says Nagra. “However she’s a lonely character in that method. Throughout her suspension, she’s in all probability simply at dwelling consuming cornflakes and understanding. She goes again to work and that’s primarily her life and there’s no different actual outlet. So if she’s going thus far, she’ll do it, however I don’t suppose she notably desires thus far. But it surely’s primarily only a sense to really feel one thing, isn’t it? It’s simply to really feel some degree of consolation, however she’s very mistrustful of it.”
D.I. Ray, Season 2 Premiere, Sunday, June 16, 10/9c, PBS
