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Set against the ominous backdrop of a Victorian prison, Affinity is both a Gothic ghost story and poignant account of forbidden love with an unexpected sting in the tail.
Gemma Perkins (Connie Fisher) seeks solace in her secret passion – Elvis Presley. She’s obsessed with the rock and roll legend. He never lets her down, unlike every other aspect of her life.
Living at home with her overbearing step-mother (played by Geraldine James) and down trodden father (Jim Carter), Gemma has a boring, and low paid job emptying car park meters. She’s just waiting for something amazing to happen, for her life to really begin.
But then her life takes a dramatic turn when she finds an easy way to fund her obsession with Elvis Presley, and that spending gives her a sense of thrill she’s never experienced before. Gemma starts to dip into cash from the parking meters and goes on a spending spree with Elvis memorabilia top of her shopping list.
But the spending spirals out of control, and Gemma is in serious danger of being caught in a trap.
Sergeant John Rook (Mark Addy) is an overweight out of shape police office, when his commanding officer receives a complaint from a Bishop about an incident between Rook and a member of the public, he is given a choice - Resign for health reasons or face a disciplinary panel. Rook chooses the latter, but in the meantime Chief Inspector Custer is determined to make things difficult for him and assigns him to a trial mounted officer project otherwise known as Bike Squad. The Chief Inspector and other officers are not keen on the idea and wish to see it fail, so they assign officers to it that are regarded as bumbling, stupid or too independent to work within the police force. John's life take a turn for the worse when one of his team reveals information about his family that he wasn't aware of due to his estrangement from them. With his life spiralling downward, other officers at the station regarding the team as a huge joke, John and the bike squad must decide whether to start working together as a team and prove themselves as police officers, or give in and live up to the low expectations of others allowing Bike squad to fail
