Shoot on Sight

Lahore-born Tariq Ali is a Commander in the London Police Department and lives with his Caucasian wife, Susan, and two children, Zara, and Imran. He is much respected, and hopes to be promoted as Deputy Assistant Commissioner. After the 7/7 bombings in the city, a Muslim male student, Baqir Hassan, is shot dead by a uniformed police officer at Charing Cross Underground Station. Amidst media frenzy that the killing was racially motivated, he is assigned this investigation along with a subordinate, Ruby. While attempting to deal with his truant, nearly six-foot tall daughter, Zara, and welcoming his nephew, Zaheer Khan, from Pakistan, Tariq opens the investigation, meets with the victim's mother and sister as well as their lawyer, Fiona Munroe. Tariq will find his life changing after photographs appear in leading newspapers of his meeting with Imam Junaid, his childhood friend from Lahore. It is this information that will not only create tensions at home but he will also be sidelined for the promotion; removed from the investigation as well as asked to go on leave. He will also find that people who had known him all their lives now shun and look at him with suspicion.