A new DAWN

MARC WARREN and MAIMIE MCCOY on the twists in store for their top cops Piet and Lucienne

- TESS LAMACRAFT

VAN DER VALK
SUNDAY, 8PM, ITV1 DRAMA

Three complex cases, two new colleagues and the reappearance of a former flame will be keeping Marc Warren’s street-smart titular detective on his toes as ITV1’s gritty Amsterdam-set crime drama Van Der Valk returns to our screens this week.

‘It’s great to be back for a third series and brilliant to have some new faces on the team,’ smiles Marc, 56, as TV Times joins him and his co-star Maimie McCoy, 44, AKA Commissaris Piet Van Der Valk’s calm confidante Inspector Lucienne Hassell, for a video chat.

Here, they share their case notes…

We hear Piet and Lucienne will have their work cut out this time with a trio of intriguing investigations. What can you reveal about the stories?

MARC In the first one, Freedom in Amsterdam, we uncover how a group of free runners is linked to drug smuggling. Then episode two, Redemption in Amsterdam, sees us investigate a historic murder, which I really enjoyed because it’s the first time we’ve done a cold case on the show. The murder dates back 20 years to when Piet used to work in Rotterdam, and it comes back to haunt him because of a conviction he made at the time and we discover whether he was right or wrong about it.

MAIMIE The last case,