***SPOILERS AHEAD***Oh dear, BasicLogic, you do seem to have misunderstood a lot. I just saw this tonight and it seemed pretty straightforward.I agree the inexperienced acting SIO, Reinhardt, was too quick to condemn Farrow - and she later acknowledged this herself - but otherwise most of your "plot holes" are nothing of the sort.When Farrow identified the body found in a shallow grave on the moor he discovered that the victim's name had come up in an old enquiry, so he retrieved the relevant floppy disks from archived records to look through. He had been invited to spend the evening at his ex- wife's house (which he had once shared with her) to spend time with his children and whilst there he got his old desktop PC with a floppy disk drive down from the loft to go through the disks. Lomax's name came up on the disks. He then had an argument with his ex-wife over her dating, punched the wall and left the house in a rage, leaving the disks behind him. He returned to the house to retrieve the disks later. Given the circumstances, he would hardly have called ahead as she would have told him to stay away. After receiving no response to his knock he let himself in with his key to find his ex-wife dying.There was no plan to kill Farrow's family. Dale Lomax broke in only to retrieve the floppy disks. The child, Max's, death was an accident - he fell down the stairs when he ran from the intruder. Abi saw his body and Dale and began screaming and Dale's attack on her was an unplanned response. As to where Finn was - that I can't remember. Possibly on the top bunk with headphones on. Everyone thought Farrow had killed Abi, and Finn had heard them arguing and seen Farrow lose his temper earlier in the day so it's unsurprising that he too thought his father may be responsible.The floppy disks contained details of corrupt dealings between Farrow's partner/friend, Devlin, boss, McKenzie, Lomax and the dead man.Devlin, the friend/partner, wasn't Abi's new boyfriend, but had had a fling with her years previously. Farrow didn't go to Devlin's house: he went to Topher Lomax's to try to track down the floppy disks. (When he and Devlin questioned Lomax, whose name cropped up in the old casefile, Topher threatened his family so was an obvious first suspect in Farrow's investigation.) Devlin then turned up there too. Not sure why he didn't realise the front door had been forced - maybe he just assumed it was always left unlocked.Sadly, it does seem that at least one viewer was indeed a moron. That'd be you, dude. For Pete's sake don't try watching anything with a complex plot, mate.

/refers to Season 1/I like British crime series - they are less "explosive" than those coming from the US, and do usually include some witty twists or turns, plus the use of distinct character actors not selected upon "cute" looks. Prey includes all above as well, but the story is not too plausible, and references to the motives were revealed too soon (I would have preferred to have longer doubts whether DC Farrow was guilty or not, and in what), and the very ending could have included some upside-down solution...Nevertheless, the events are catchy to follow, and John Simm as DC Marcus Farrow and Rosie Cavaliero as DS Susan Reinhart, first of all, give splendid performances. "Only" 7 points from me, since I regard e.g. Line of Duty, Luther meatier and more seamless.

stupid screenplay with lot of unforgiven holes big enough to drive through a semi container truck! very highly unlikely scenarios and plots with illogical twists, so conveniently arranged for the development of the storyline. stupid female detective captain, stupid police organization, so easily to condemn a brother detective of their own. guy went to his ex-wife's home at night without calling first was against normal behavior any normal divorced husband would do, albeit a police detective. survived kid so readily to believe his father killed his mother, and his kid brother was killed in the same house while he was just spared? so where he hid himself in the small house? if the killer already targeted the ex-wife's family, he should have known there were 3 persons in the house, would he just killed two and left? the reason to kill this stupid cop's family was even shady without any explanation. did this guy hold some important, critical, dangerous information that might endanger the crime boss? if so, what was it? if the kids and other people in this stupid series already used iPhones, how could it possible that their desktops were still equipped with the obsolete floppy disk device and even the police still using the floppy disks? and if those disks held the important and deadly evidence and secret that would convict the accused, how could he brought them to his ex-wife's home. where was this stupid detective's actually lived? did he had his own living quarter? when he was transported to the prison, the other criminal just attacked him so easily with a ball pen with free hands without cuffs? after he ran away from the accident scene, he went to his ex-wife's new boy friend who's also a colleague and partner, he kicked open the front door, it should have seriously damaged the door and the door frame, so why his partner didn't find out there might be an intruder in his home and he was a detective! he won't detect his front door was heavily damaged? and still could use his key to open the damaged front door? on and on, this stupid mini-series played on and treated the viewers like morons. that' absolutely unacceptable, dude.

It started out with a good plot line and a couple of twists but it went downhill fast.Marcus Farrow was supposed to be a decent police officer, smart and savvy.Then this smart officer went bumbling around Manchester leaving clues everywhere and more importantly leaving his finger prints at crime scenes?It was crazy that he grabbed the knife embedded in his wife's stomach then he left his prints at Tofer Lomax's house.It all became very sloppy overall and then in a 2 minute climax it ended.Very disappointing when it could have been so much better