The Five is a British crime drama which ran for 10 episodes. Supposed to be followed by "The Four" but that hasn't happened yet.
1995: four friends (3 boys and 1 girl) Mark, Danny, Slade and Pru go for a walk in the woods. They leave Mark's five year old brother Jesse who wants to go with them, behind. Jesse vanishes. Serial killer Jakob Marosi who is prison for murdering four other children confessed to having killed Jesse but Jesse's body was never found.
Twenty years later Danny is a police detective investigating the murder of a woman, a prostitute. DNA found at the scene matches the missing Jesse.
Mark is now a lawyer, and looks for missing people in his spare time and is having an affair with married Laura Marshall
Slade runs a shelter
Pru is a doctor and has returned to the UK after having spent 14 years in the USA. She's actually been home for 2 years but didn't tell the guys who are still friends. She's marreid to an American with my real first name Stuart.
Jesse is of course missing presumed deceased but now his DNA has turned up at a murder scene. Is he the murderer? A witness? Another victim? Why hasn't he contacted his parents or his brother in 20 years?
Mark and Jesse's parents have split over the mother refusing to accept Kesse's death and the father wanting to put the past behind them.
Lots of questions: If Jesse was alive to leave blood at the murder scene why did a serial killer confess to murdering him 20 years ago? Did Mark do something to his brother that would result in Jesse running away and avoiding his family for 20 years? Did one or more of the other two boys do something to Jesse? Or was it the girl Pru? Or all 4 of them? Or could Jesse's father have something to hide? Or, if Jesse actually died 20 years ago how did his blood get in the hotel room a woman was murdered in 20 years later?
Slade is played Lee Ingleby by who was Detective Sergeant John Bacchus in Inspector George Gently.
Mark's lover Laura Marshall is played by Honeysuckle Weeks who was Samantha Stewart in Foyle's War.
O-T Fagbenle who plays Danny must look like somebody else because he seems familiar though looking up his credits I haven't seen anything else he was in accept for 2 Doctor Who episodes. Danny's father who suffers from Alzhameirs is the police commissioner in Death In Paradise. Mark and Jesse's father is played by Michael Maloney who was Tom Read in River and Dr. Crowley in Paranoid. He also does video game voices including Avallac'h in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
There are also sub plots which may or may not tie in to the disappearance of Jesse in 1995 and the murder 20 years later. Like a woman shows up at Slade's shelter who's been missing for 5 years. Episode 1 has a shocker of an ending:
Slade murders a man using a pistol with a silencer. In episode 2 he puts the silencer in his pocket but tosses the gun into a lake. So Slade the who runs a shelter for street people is also a hitman?