No Signs of Life

I was all for a station fire plot, but this was so badly done. We went from explosion and fire to the morning after between the end of the previous episode and the start of this one; it was as if an episode was skipped. That lack of live aftermath robbed the viewers of so much: even Kate was dying in hospital for half the episode and there was no scene with her. Des being seen also ruined all suspense in the investigation plot, quite out of character for the series after always viewing it from a police perspective not a criminal's - even if a working cop was the criminal. I agreed with Kate being axed, likewise so were the awful characters of Paul, Ben & Di, but Sam was criminally underused and Andrew Monroe never should've been axed; one scene of him in his office in the previous ep and a death announcement at the start of this was atrocious after 12 years of service by the late great Colin Tarrant.