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What happened in Grace's last series? ITV drama returns for third run as John Simm leads cast

A new series of Grace kicks off on Sunday, but many ITV viewers had one issue - they couldn't remember what happened in the last one.

It was back in 2001 that Grace, the crime drama adapted from Peter James' hit novels, made its debut with former Life on Mars and The Lakes actor John Simm in the lead role of famous fictional detective Roy Grace. Grace's first ever episode left viewers mightily unnerved as it centered on the disappearance of a man on his stag do who, unbeknown to his loved ones, ended being buried alive by his so called mates in a sick prank that then took a sinister turn when, a straw put in a hole for him to be use as a breathing tube, was pulled out of the ground by an unknown assailant.

Series 2 of Grace aired on ITV last year and was just as grisly as the first, with its final episode concerned with the discovery of a body dredged up from the sea, with both of the person's eyes missing. After two more bodies were found, also with body parts missing, Grace drew the conclusion that they were dealing with a trade of human organs.

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