Based on the best-selling book by Ian Rankin, Rebus bursts onto the BBC this weekend when Edinburgh detective John Rebus finds himself at a psychological crossroads after a violent encounter with gangster Ger Cafferty.The BBC's synopsis for the series reads: "At odds with a job increasingly driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter’s life by his ex-wife’s wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. "In a time of divisive politics and national discord, Rebus’ broke, ex-soldier brother Michael desperately crosses the line to provide for his family, and Rebus begins to wonder if the law still has meaning, or if everyone is reverting to an older set of rules? And if so, why shouldn’t Rebus do so too?" Who is in the cast of Rebus episode 1? John Rebus - Richard Rankin TV fans will instantly recognise Richard Rankin from his role as Roger MacKenzie in time-travelling drama Outlander.
