The rub is, where manpower has been a limiting factor in their work, it’s even more so with the strategy that Sutton proposes: a vast surveillance operation within a key area of South East London. Ultimately, what gives is the strategy the Operation Minstead team has been using to try to catch the criminal. In the meantime, Colin combs through stacks of case files, visits crime scenes, and chats briefly with victims while doing his best to provide some sort of comfort to them.

But the Night Stalker has recently become active again, so something’s gotta give. You can’t blame them, really, as they just went through a separate review of their work. Not thrilled that Colin is going to be assessing their work are members of the Operation Minstead team. Fast-forward 17 years to 2009, when a senior member of the London Metropolitan Police asks DCI Colin Sutton (Martin Clunes) to review the work of the team on “Operation Minstead,” the investigation into the rapes and burglaries committed by a man the British press has dubbed “the Night Stalker.” This isn’t going to be a quick assignment, and Colin is mere months away from retiring, but he’s a devoted cop and happy to help, so he agrees. It opens in October 1992 in South East London, in the aftermath of an attack on an elderly woman. The four-part drama concerns the case of a notorious burglar and serial rapist who committed his heinous crimes against dozens of elderly people during the 17-year period between 19, and how Colin came to join the investigation, help solve the case, and get a dangerous criminal off the street in a matter of weeks. The trio have returned in full force this year with Manhunt: The Night Stalker, the follow-up series that is based on Sutton’s eponymous memoir.

The real-life story about a senior detective and his team working to catch a serial killer in the Greater London area was compelling - brought to life by the talents of writer Ed Whitmore, of series star Martin Clunes and the rest of the cast, and of Colin Sutton, the former Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) and Senior Investigating Office (SIO) upon whose memoir the show was based.

When the first season of Manhunt debuted in 2019, it became the highest-rated new UK drama of that year for good reason. Manhunt: The Night Stalker: (L-R) Beth Goddard as DS Cathy Rook, Matthew Gravelle as DI Nathan Eason, Martin Clunes as DCI Colin Sutton, Sule Rimi as DS Neville Hylton - Photo Credit: Neil Genower / AcornTV This is the stuff of Manhunt: The Night Stalker, the gripping, devastating second season of the hit true-crime drama Manhunt.

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