The Worst Episodes of Grace
Every episode of Grace ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Grace!
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Grace" is "Dead Man's Grip", rated 7.2/10 from 349 user votes. It was directed by Isher Sahota and written by Ed Whitmore. "Dead Man's Grip" aired on 3/26/2023 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Dead Simple".
7.2/10 349 votes#1 - Dead Man's Grip
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/2023
Grace and his team are called to the site of a tragic road traffic collision involving three vehicles: an articulated lorry, a car and a blue pickup truck. An unexpected discovery at the scene, found on the victim, soon suggests there could be far more to this particular accident than meets the eye, sparking an unsettling chain of events which leads Grace and Branson on a tense, desperate game of cat and mouse through the city of Brighton to save an innocent life before time runs out.
Director: Isher Sahota
Writer: Ed Whitmore
7.3/10 931 votes#2 - Dead Simple
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/2021
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is approached by colleague Detective Sergeant Branson to help investigate the disappearance of a Brighton property developer.
Director: John Alexander
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.3/10 558 votes#3 - Looking Good Dead
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/24/2022
Grace senses a connection between a single death and the discovery of human remains in a field. But his superior is not convinced.
Director: John Alexander
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.3/10 463 votes#4 - Not Dead Enough
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/2022
Months on from his last investigation, and with Grace's team still reeling from the fallout, Roy must prove that a wealthy Brighton businessman has brutally murdered his wife.
Director: Henrik Georgsson
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.4/10 427 votes#5 - Dead Man’s Footsteps
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/8/2022
A sinister inquiry into skeletal remains found in a forgotten Brighton storm drain takes Grace down a labyrinthine trail through the past.
Director: Brian Kelly
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.5/10 411 votes#6 - Dead Like You
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/19/2023
A chilling event at the Royal Edward hotel on the night of Assistant Chief Constable, Alison Vosper’s leaving do forces Grace and Branson into a difficult position when they must investigate all hotel guests, including high ranking East Sussex police attendees. Something about the incident is causing a deep unease in Grace- he knows he’s seen this before. Has a sinister offender from Grace’s past dubbed the Brighton Prowler resurfaced or is this a copycat? As the attacks continue, Grace is convinced it’s the same man- and delving into the past may be the key to saving the next victim.
Director: Camilla Strøm Henriksen
Writer: Ben Court, Caroline Ip
7.5/10 245 votes#7 - Dead Man’s Time
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/2/2024
A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton home, draws Grace and Branson into a puzzling enquiry when thousands of pounds worth of beautiful antiques are stolen from the house. As Grace digs deeper into this mysterious crime, he unearths a web of ancient grudges - a web which leads him down a dark, murderous trail through the world of Brighton antiques, in a race against the clock, to untangle who is at the heart of this robbery, and bring Gavin Daly the answers he has been desperately chasing for many years.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 309 votes#8 - Not Dead Yet
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/2/2023
A rising music star, Gaia Lafayette, receives the opportunity of a lifetime, and the same night that she excitedly announces to her devoted fans that she and her band are headed to LA, a shocking turn of events leads Grace and Branson to believe someone may be trying to harm her. With a perpetrator on the loose, Roy must deduce who of Gaia’s fanbase may be concealing sinister intentions. Meanwhile, a grisly discovery on a remote Sussex pig farm puts Roy under serious pressure, forcing him to split his team in order to investigate two impossible lines of enquiry.
Director: William Sinclair
Writer: Ben Court, Caroline Ip
7.6/10 205 votes#9 - Want You Dead
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/9/2024
Grace and Branson investigate a case where nothing is truly as it first appears. When an unidentified victim is found dead in curious circumstances, the post mortem reveals more questions than it does answers. As Grace works to identify the body, hoping this might provide some crucial clue as to the killer’s motive, he soon has another death on his hands when a second victim shows up in central Brighton, discovered in similarly bizarre circumstances.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 189 votes#10 - You Are Dead
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 7/16/2024
Grace and Branson are thrown into what is possibly their most disturbing and high-profile case yet, when an unsettling discovery of skeletal remains is unearthed by workmen digging up a path in central Brighton. Meanwhile, across the city that same morning, a victim is snatched in broad daylight. With no witnesses and no sign of who took her, Grace starts to suspect whether the victim’s fiancé is lying to the police.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 4 votes#11 - Dead Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/22/2022
When a body is dredged up from the seabed of the English Channel, it sets in motion a truly disturbing investigation which forces Grace to ask himself just how far anyone might go to save the ones they love.
Director: Kate Saxon
Writer: Russell Lewis
7.9/10 167 votes#12 - Love You Dead
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 7/23/2024
When a known Brighton burglar is found dead in his car, in gruesome circumstances, his wife claims that he had turned over a new leaf, but all the evidence points to the fact the victim may still have been up to his old tricks and was breaking and entering on the night he was killed. As Grace and the team work to hone in on the circumstances leading to the victim’s death, Roy receives a call from a US police contact about a crime abroad which bears the hallmarks of a mafia hit. The police are keen to trace a woman they believe to be from Brighton, who could be in danger. As Roy scours the city to help find her, it becomes apparent he isn’t the only one looking for this mysterious woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A