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Cuffs Episode 1

Main Characters

PC Ryan Draper - Male, macho, takes control, representing race, dad to a daughter and son.
PC Jake Vickers - Not very experienced, 22, gay
Chief Robert Vickers, DS Jo Moffat, DI Felix Kane, Drug Addict - Nathan, Simon Reddington 
DS Jo Moffat - single, lonely, loves her dog

storylines: episodic and individual/overarching

Beach, police station, hospital, 

Setting

Brighton, beach, pier

Overall tone/appeal
Serious at times, but sometimes comes across as quite jokey.

Narrative

  • Opens with a stag party antagonising people on a nudist beach, one of them punches PC Ryan Draper in the face.
  • Jake Vickers becomes a police officer.
  • Ryan and Jake are partnered up ad sent out to a mentally ill drug addicts house (Nathan Rickman) Jake doesn't deal with the situation very well.
  • DC Jo Moffat discusses the release of a racist man with her colleagues.
  • Within a few hours of being released the racist man stabs an Indian man in a shop.
  • A woman reports her daughter missing, her husband abducted her.
  • At the beach/pier, two women police officers are discussing the 'new guy' (Jake Vickers) when they are interrupted by a digger and a pickup truck driving round the corner at speed.
  • The person driving the digger drives it into a shop window, and the people from the pickup truck put an ATM on the digger which is then put onto the pickup truck.
  • The two women officers don't do anything, they are screaming, like stereotypical women. 
  • Ryan and Jake chase the people with the ATM, and Jake has to give directions to other officers to put a stinger in the road, but he doesn't know what he's doing and tells them the wrong road, so they get away.
  • The man who abducted his daughter then drives down the road with the stinger on and his tyres pop. When the police realise who he is he runs away with his daughter.
  • Later on, Ryan, Jake and two other officers go to the racist mans house to arrest him, but the two other officers get into fights with other people. Ryan went in round the back to make sure the racist man didn't escape and is backed into a corner, with the racist man threatening him with a pole.
  • Jake sneaks up behind the racist man and punches him in the face, so they can rest him.
  • DI Felix Kane figures out where the man who abducted his daughter is and goes to them.
  • The man runs off and tries to commit suicide, but Felix stops him.
  • The solicitor (Simon Reddington) puts his card into Jakes trouser pocket, which presents him as a stereotypical gay man who sleeps around. Jake is sexualised during this encounter as his top is lifted and the shot is focused on his stomach.
  • Jo Moffat is now at home with her dog cooking a microwave meal for one.
  • Chief Supt. Robert Vickers is now at home with his dying wife and son Jake.
  • The Indian man who was attacked in the shop is in hospital and begins to wake up.
  • DI Felix Kane goes to a brothel.
  • Ryan is at home taking care of his son and daughter.
  • The next day, Ryan and Jake get the report that a body has been found at the pier, so they go to investigate.
  • The body is the drug addict, who they had seen the previous day, he hung himself.

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