Former detective-turned-teacher Jackie Ellis (Kelly Reilly, Yellowstone) discovers the body of her eight-year-old student, Cefin, who appears to have been drowned. Ellis’s former partner, Detective Eric Bull (Rafe Spall, Trying), is leading the investigation, but they fell out three years previously, when Ellis’s niece Nessa disappeared and Bull accused Ellis’s sister.
Time is of the essence to find out what happened to Cefin, with a storm that’s been brewing throughout the entire series threatening to wipe any potential evidence from the crime scene and cause general widespread chaos. While you can use pop-up water tanks, production designer Stevie Herbert and her team built their own unique tank for the huge, weighty build.
The tank was 50 x 50 metres and made of steel walls that were 1.2 metres tall. They used timber, glue and expanding foam to seal it, with tarmac wrapping a seal around the tank.
"Rain rigs went above the whole set. In a flood, you get a current, so special effects created the current in the tank with pumps, so there were a lot of things moving around. We also had rooms that sunk down on hydraulic jacks, where the floor was made of metal mesh, so the water came through to flood it slowly."
"You can let some stuff float upside down, like plastic chairs, bowls and pots. We removed anything that was a problem or was going to explode. We stripped out units so there were no moving parts inside. We can cheat a lot with spray paint effects to look as if things are covered in mud."
The sets had to sit in water for a week, meaning there could be no toxicity in it. "Afterwards, the water is dispersed slowly back within the normal water system," Herbert explains. "The steels were clean, we used natural materials to build walls, which were all timber and ply-based, and the paint treatments had to be water-based."
"It's not easy to imitate nature," says Herbert. "The storm and the flooding being believable was the biggest challenge. You've got to feel the fear, but you've also got to feel the potential loss of all these people."
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