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Perhaps that’s what happens when writer and director are the same person. All that plausibility is seeping away as fast as the blood from Huntley’s head wound. The fact that a police scientist didn’t realise she hadn’t. Too much, though – the suggestion that a healthy young woman might have died in an innocuous kitchen incident. and suddenly Roz comes back to life! Not dead after all! Awkward! But welcome back, Thandie. Quick-thinking Tim, one minute a whistle-blowing geek, the next a criminal mastermind, sets to work covering his tracks (if anyone can, Tim can) and prepares to chop her up with a power saw for easier disposal. And I was just getting to know, and to appreciate, the character and the performance. There is an altercation, she bumps her head on the sideboard … oh, and sadly dies! Bloody hell (literally, claret spreading everywhere), it doesn’t take much. Huntley goes round to confront Tim, the suspicious forensics man, at his flat. It all gets a bit bonkers and melodramatic at the end of the episode. I don’t necessarily see her as naturally police, but she tones down the exuberance, while maintaining humanness and fallibility, and is plausible as well as very watchable. Newton (it’s Huntley who is guilty of breeding, as well as covering up forensic evidence) is good too.

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So convincing by all of them: Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and especially Adrian Dunbar – is there a better, more coppish TV cop than Supt Ted Hastings? Or a better portrayal of workplace dynamic? Anyone who works with other people will recognise the little jealousies and power struggles going on, and will know that, for a woman, having children hasn’t always been the quickest way up the career ladder. If Hilton does get kicked out of the force for being rotten, I know an administration that would probably welcome him with open arms.ĪC-12 is on to them now, from the outside and the inside, undercover.

“There’s facts, and then there’s the truth, I know you won’t let me down,” he tells Huntley. Hilton has another nice line, which chimes with the world today. They’ve been killing us on Twitter,” says Huntley’s boss, ACC Hilton. Where’s the corruption, the conspiracy? There is a suggestion that evidence has been planted and suppressed that Michael has been framed. He promised a big interrogation, down the line.įirst, AC-12 needs to get involved. I saw this episode at a screening and Mercurio was there. I hope the move from BBC2 doesn’t mean cuts in procedure and more action. It was extraordinarily intense and involving television, and what sets LoD apart from everything else. It’s what came in between – specifically the interview scenes, which probably had you pressing the pause button to study the evidence and weigh things up for yourself.

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Remember last time out, the shootings by, and then of, Sgt Danny Waldron? But it’s not the breathless start, nor the even more (a bit too) breathless end to that series you most remember. He likes to start a series using jump leads and a defibrillator, does LoD creator (he is now directing as well as writing) Jed Mercurio. We’re less than 10 minutes in, and I’m a wreck.