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BBC Shetland series 11 returned with DI Tosh McIntosh and DI Ruth Calder investigating murder mysteries

Shetland fans think one major character is about to be killed off in horrific circumstances.

The BBC crime drama made a welcome comeback on Thursday (November 12) as DI Ruth Calder and DI ‘Tosh’ McIntosh tackle more murder mysteries across the Scottish archipelago. Actress Alison O’Donnell has announced the current series will mark her final outing as Tosh, confirming her departure.

In the opening episode of Shetland series 11, skeletal remains of an unidentified male were discovered inside a vehicle hauled from the sea, leaving Calder and Tosh tasked with tracking down the troubled owner who fled the Isles nine years earlier.

The investigation quickly focused on two men who vanished back in 2017, including local doctor Raymond Linden, the car’s owner, and Ukrainian contract worker Ivan Dudka, who had an emergency home appointment with Raymond shortly before his disappearance.

Ivan had been residing at a hostel in Lerwick, yet the address logged in the surgery diary was in Isbister, roughly an hour away. Attempting to crack the mystery, Tosh travelled to the location and started investigating an underground tank, though she wasn’t alone.

Tosh called out, “Are you okay? Do you need help?” but received no response. As the ladder she was scaling gave way, she plunged deeper into the tank and tumbled. Luckily, Tosh escaped injury and managed to regain her footing before a mysterious figure darted towards the ladder while her back was turned.

She attempted to escape from them and shouted, “Hey”, but they swiftly slammed the hatch shut behind them and bolted from the scene, leaving a visibly panicked Tosh trapped inside, reports the Express.

The detective retrieved her mobile phone torch to examine the area, and she was in for a nasty surprise. Tosh discovered the remains of another body, just as Calder was leaving a message on her phone.

It had come to light that the skeleton found in Raymond’s car did, in fact, belong to him, and that Ivan was most probably the man Tosh found in the tank, but the motive remained a mystery. Will Tosh escape from the tank alive?

Shetland viewers fear the officer has reached the end of the road. Taking to X, one viewer pleaded: “#Shetland I hope Tosh gets out okay. I know she’s leaving, sadly.” A second fumed: ” #Shetland hasn’t been the same since Jimmy and Duncan left. Now Tosh is the last straw.”

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A third chimed in: “That was a pretty good episode except for that at the end……why oh why #Shetland”, with another commenting: “So good to have this brilliant drama back on TV. I could feel it in my bones that something was coming right down the road at Tosh, oh & I was right; please no, not Tosh #Shetland.”

“Who is writing the scripts for #Shetland this Season?! There’s no way Tosh /Any Woman would enter & explore that building on their own…Finished with it,” exclaimed one viewer. (sic).

“So, new season of #Shetland started tonight, first: Did no one tell Tosh you don’t go down a dark, scary hole on your own without backup and/or without telling anyone where you are?”, added another.

Shetland series 11 airs Thursdays at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer