Viaplays reboot follows 40-year-old Inspector John Rebus at a psychological crossroads following an altercation with an infamous Edinburgh gangster. At odds with a job increasingly driven by technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughters life by his ex-wifes wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play either as a family man or a police officer.