Marcella is shocked to the core of her being when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, Marcella returns to the Met’s Murder Squad. Ten years ago Marcella gave up her fast-tracked police career to marry and devote her life to her family. With the abrupt end to her marriage and isolated from her 13 year old daughter and 10 year old son, Marcella throws herself into work to stop herself from falling apart.
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In episode three, after the scene where Bendek pays rent, it shows the man who threatened him with deportation earlier walking through his house looking for his dog, Bounty. You see him hanging dead from the back of a door.
Not abuse, but Marcella very often drinks beer alone, so it kinda feel a depressed drinking.
Also there's talk in S1 of a former alcoholic relapsing.
And talk of an alcoholic father in S2.
At the very end of S02E02, Edward, Marcella's son, kills one of his pet mice.
I found it pretty disturbing, although you kind of see it coming so it's easy to mute/cover the screen.
In S02E05 an already dead fox is shown on screen, Edward poking it with a stick, pretty gruesome, you can see the death wound.
S2: Discussion of sexual abuse of children. S2E4: A boy is tied down by a pedophile, who takes off his own shirt and tells the boy his mom will have to watch him be hurt. Police intervene before the boy is physically harmed. S2E6: A woman says she was raped at age 14. S3E1: Two men attempt to rape a teenage girl, but someone quickly intervenes.
S2: A deep cut in a boy's stomach oozes blood as wooden disks are shoved inside. A boy cuts his own arm in order to slip out of handcuffs. Several characters get cut as people hold knives to their necks. A woman is seen holding a knife with the intent to hurt herself but ends up not following through. A character cuts through the corner of her mouth with scissors.
Absolutely. I'm not sure why two people have pressed no. Season 2 is about a serial killer who lobotomises children then buries them in prominent places around London - they then suffocate or starve or just die. Season 3 episode 1 has a host of immigrants found dead in the back of a truck.
There's talk of someone biting another person, and damaging their teeth in the last episode season 1.
In S2E8, someone uses a scissor to cut their own cheek
Someone is found in a lorry, stabbed in the eye. It's shown on screen, though not excessively close.
Several causes of death are eye related, and though it's not shown on screen, we see a victim just before it happens, wearing an eyelid opener
Six years old one in season 1.
Twelve something and fifteen in season 2.
In season 2 the investigation is all about a murde of a young boy. Pretty graphic!
Season 3 episode 4 Marcella pukes approx from 17 min to 19min (I fast forwarded when it started so idk the actual duration of the scene)
And Season 3 episode 6 when she’s running with Frank at like 10 or so minutes in.
Season 2 someone is a caregiver and we see them at work often, also later on we see 3 people on different occasions an for different reasons, lying in hospital bed
Phil's girlfriend miscarries after being harassed by journalists trying to get in her hotel room. She's in pain and falls on the floor crying. Later we see her sobbing, in a hospital bed.
In season 3, one man is the target of many ableist comments. Characters make snide comments about his phobia of germs. In episode 7, the man's brother attacks him for not going along with a scheme. He is tied to a fence, urinated on, and left where he cannot act on his compulsive need to wash himself. He is also coded as autistic and called Rain Man.
Parents abuse their children sexually in season 2 though it is not shown but talked about.
In season 2 also there is a peadophile who's girlfriend is pregnant with his son and he leers and fauns over the picture of the baby in the womb. The baby doesn't get abused.
S1 Cara is hit by a car, which then reverse and runs over her again.
S2 second episode, we see an already crashed car, an a cyclist lying on the road. Their fate is not revealed.
S2E04 a car is hit by a train.