Summary: When Detective Chief Inspector Sam Tyler has a road traffic collision, it falls down to several of his Greater Manchester Police colleagues to find out how the incident happened when he is still at St. James's hospital in a critical condition. PCSO Cartwright has problems of her own when an elderly former hard nosed Detective Chief Inspector claims he knew DCI Tyler during his policing days of the 70s when Gene and co were barely out of nappies. Could they also be dealing with a ex Greater Manchester Police man who could have possible dementia? Some casefic in here, too, with Gene quietly solving colleague Sam Tyler's road traffic collision because it's the right thing to do and explains the scenes you didn't see in the series.
Gene seemed to fit into the 2006 world better as he grew up in the 70s-80s when police officers were very corrupt, has zero tolerance for corruption on the force and this retired Detective Chief Inspector from the 1970s causes stress within the modern day CID unit, especially when getting picked on by the now elderly ex policeman - his uncle Gerry for having homosexual tendencies. He is revealed to be the suspect in DCI Sam Tyler's road traffic collision but it takes intensive questioning of his former colleagues who used to work with him back in the day.
Gene actively deciding to change himself into that, going through that whole process of turning himself into something like the cop he's always wanted to be since starting at Greater Manchester Police from 1983 without anyone pushing him to it.
Set in 2006-2007 with deleted scenes from episode 1.01 and 2.08