In BBC One’s Better, Leila Farzad stars as DI Lou Slack. She’s a police officer so compromised by a deal made two decades ago with a young ambitious newcomer in the Leeds underworld that her whole career has been built on a lie.
We have seen morally compromised police on television before. But never quite like this.
Both Slack and Col McHugh (played by Andrew Buchan) have risen through the ranks. Slack is now a successful detective. McHugh is the biggest organised crime kingpin in Leeds. They lean on each other in tough times. When McHugh calls,
