Based on Iain Banks’ best-selling novel, BBC Two’s Stonemouth is a new romantic mystery which delves into love, loyalty and vengeance.
Written by David Kane (Shetland) and starring Peter Mullan, Christian Cooke and Charlotte Spencer, the two-part drama is the first TV adaptation of Banks’ work since his death in 2013.
Stonemouth centres on the character of Stewart Gilmour, who returns to his childhood home and tries to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s death.
Episode 1
Thursday 11 June 2015, 9pm
Run out of Stonemouth two years earlier by girlfriend Ellie Murston’s criminal family, Stewart is forced to face up to his past whilst uncovering the sinister truth behind best friend Callum’s apparent suicide. Stewart resolves to find out what really happened, which means he must face the girl he left behind – Ellie.
However, it’s quickly made clear to Stewart that all is not forgiven. Don Murston, Ellie’s dad and head of Stonemouth’s most notorious criminal family, gets his henchman Powell Imrie to set out the terms of Stewart’s return – he must leave immediately after the funeral, or else.
Don will do everything he can to prevent Stewart from finding his way back into Ellie’s affections.
However, as Stewart digs deeper he uncovers unsettling truths about the Murston family and the secrets and lies which surround Stonemouth.
Episode 2
Thursday 18 June 2015, 9pm
Stewart persuades Ellie to help him uncover the mysterious circumstances of Callum’s death.
As Stewart delves deeper into the apparent suicide of his best friend he uncovers secrets and lies in Stonemouth’s close-knit community. He soon realises that his questions are ruffling feathers: even his godfather, local businessman Mike McAvett, is behaving strangely, quizzing Stewart and warning him off.
At Callum’s funeral, Stewart feels the threatening eyes of Don Murston and Powell Imrie on him at every turn, and realises that time is running out.
Old friend Ferg is torn between protecting Stewart and his own secret desire to keep him in town – little realising Stewart’s not the only one in danger. And then there’s Ellie. Convinced he’s lost his true love for good, Stewart faces up to the enormity of the mistake he made two years ago.
Despite their troubled past, Stewart and Ellie race against to clock to right the wrongs of Stonemouth’s troubles and expose the sinister forces behind Callum’s death.
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