GHOSTS of the past

RICHARD FLOOD and ACUSHLA-TARA KUPE on a complex case for their top cops

- ELAINE REILLY

A new disappearance reignites hidden tensions in the fictional rural New Zealand town of Mount Affinity when gritty crime drama The Gone returns for a second outing.

After cracking the harrowing case of two missing young Irish tourists in the first series, Dublin detective Theo Richter (Grey's Anatomy actor Richard Flood) is preparing to return home when he discovers his love interest, Irish journalist Aileen Ryan (Smother's Carolyn Bracken), has vanished under eerily similar circumstances.

Teaming up again with Maori detective Diana Huia (Under the Vines star Acushla-Tara Kupe), Theo learns Aileen was chasing a lead and was lured to a remote cabin housing a collection of macabre items linked with a serial killer known as 'the Goatman'.

As the cops enter a dangerous game of cat and mouse, can they unravel a web of long-buried secrets in time?

Here, Richard and Acushla-Tara share their case notes...

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