The Tower

Synopsis

A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

First Air Date: 2021-11-08

Last Air Date: 2024-09-05

Number of Seasons: 3

Number of Episodes: 11

Created By: Patrick Harbinson

Networks: ITV1, BritBox

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Top Cast

Gemma Whelan as DS Sarah Collins
Tahirah Sharif as PC Lizzie Adama
Jimmy Akingbola as DC Steve Bradshaw
Emmett J. Scanlan as DI Kieran Shaw
Michael Karim as PC Arif Johar
Laurie Delaney as Mary Shaw
Bobby Lockwood as DC Lee Coutts
Ella Smith as DS Elaine Lucas
Karl Davies as DCI Tim Bailie
Robin Morrissey as Sgt Fred Thompson

Seasons

Post Mortem (2021) - (3 Episodes)

Death Message (2023) - (4 Episodes)

Gallowstree Lane (2024) - (4 Episodes)

Post Mortem (2021)

A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie PC Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. DS Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2021-11-08)

DS Sarah Collins and her colleague, DC Steve Bradshaw, officers in the Directorate of Special Investigations (DSI), are called to an incident at Portland Tower in south east London. They find at the bottom of the tower the dead bodies of long-serving police officer, PC Hadley Matthews, and a 15-year-old Libyan refugee, Farah Mehenni.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2021-11-09)

With Lizzie still on the run, Sarah finally persuades her boss, DCI Tim Bailie, to go public about Lizzie's disappearance. Later, she makes a series of discoveries about the events that led up to the Portland Tower fall which further complicate the case.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2021-11-10)

Lizzie decides to turn herself in, but first she meets Kieran Shaw in secret, who tries to persuade her not to implicate herself. When Sarah finally interviews Lizzie, the explosive truth about what really happened on top of the tower emerges