Nottingham Finds a Road to Peace as 'Sherwood's Bransons Are Brought to Heel

As Sherwood Season 2 winds down, the separate threads are starting to come together, but in typical Sherwood fashion, the tapestry is devastating as the truth emerges. Any hope that St. Clair had of keeping this case under wraps is blown out of the water when Sheriff Lisa Waters joins the victim list in the most recent Nottingham crime spree. Harry isn't up to facing the press because he thinks hanging out with the Bottomleys the night before they were killed is what led the Bransons to them.

He can't face potentially screwing up the case even more, which leaves St. Clair leading the press conference and kissing his dreams of community outreach goodbye. No one is going to trust him to reach out to at-risk youth if he's still so closely attached to the police, and now he's the face of cracking down on the latest crime wave. He goes rogue, saying he doesn't trust the police, but begs anyone with information to come forward. The community and the cops must work together to return to a place of peace. The community doesn't give St. Clair his next lead, though. It's on Lisa's desk: the file revealing Frank Warner* was the Thatcher spy during the strikes in the 80s.

He goes directly to Daphne (who Season 1 revealed was a spy cop during that era) to ask if she knew Frank when working undercover. She shrugs he was around but has no interest in talking to St. Clair since he coerced her into wearing a wire to entrap Ann Branson. If you expect Daphne to then tell Mickey about Frank Warner, you're in for a shock. Instead, she goes to her daughter, Rachel, which is how we discover Frank is Rachel's biological father. Daphne doesn't say it, but it is heavily implied that Frank raped her, and that's why she gave Rachel up. She couldn't stand the everyday reminder of what Frank did to her.