- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
This is one of those byzantine, unspooling Law & Order plots. If you were to spell out the stages of the story from a bunch of youths bullying a postman in the opening scene to a coda in a care home, it would sound like the product of an unhinged mind (and unhinged minds are very much part of the picture). But the way the drama draws us through it, revelation by revelation, feels as if
it makes sense, more or less.
The only giveaway is when we see Toby Stephens briefly as a psychiatry professor: no character he plays will turn out to be minor, and as always, he adds a touch of class in a strange tale of fascists, big pharma and a murdered Jewish janitor.
About this programme
4/7. The murder of a caretaker has been so carefully planned and executed that the police are left without a single piece of evidence. Adding to the mystery is the fact that the crime is laid out in detail in a manual purchased three weeks earlier in the victim's name. Brooks and Casey eventually track down the killer, who confesses, but the trial is put in jeopardy by a canny defence lawyer. Guest starring Toby Stephens.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Ronnie Brooks
- Bradley Walsh
- Sam Casey
- Paul Nicholls
- Natalie Chandler
- Harriet Walter
- Jacob Thorne
- Dominic Rowan
- Alesha Phillips
- Freema Agyeman
- Henry Sharpe
- Peter Davison
- Martin Middlebrook
- Toby Stephens
- Rachel Mathesson
- Penny Downie
- Simon Wells
- Arthur Wilson
- Julia Anstiss
- Jeany Spark
- Dr Roddy Armitage
- George Anton
- Sara Waldman
- Seline Hizli
- Eleanor
- Annabel Mullion
- Gordon Wells
- Sam Graham
- Mary Wells
- Lucy Fleming
- Tony Wright
- Peter Silverleaf
- Cal Donnally
- Ged McKenna
- Frankie
- Carl Prekopp
- Helen
- Rachel Bavidge
- Haya Ngama
- Amy Yamazaki
- Andy
- Nicholas Banks
- Judge Richards
- Crispin Redman
- John Peters
- Christopher Gilling
- Guy Kerridge
- Jerry Lindop
- Postman
- Lawrence Lambert
- Supervisor
- Gareth Williams
- PET technician
- Mike Sengelow
- Nurse
- Liz Hallyburton
Crew
- Director
- David O'Neill
- Executive Producer
- Dick Wolf
- Executive Producer
- Andrew Woodhead
- Executive Producer
- Stephen Garrett
- Executive Producer
- Jane Featherstone
- Producer
- Richard Stokes
- Writer
- Nick Hicks-Beach
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