- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
Do we watch crime dramas from a need to see the darkest horrors played out on screen? If so, the Banks saga doesn’t disappoint.
In tonight’s opening scene we see a terribly scarred, paralysed young woman in a wheelchair pushed up a bleak hill to have her throat cut. At which point you may decide that a swift pint is more the thing. But stick around, because grim as it is, the story unfolds well, as Banks (Stephen Tompkinson) pursues his usual pit-bull-in-a-tea-shop approach of angrily accusing one suspect after another of murder.
What thickens the plot is that he’s on the case of a student raped and strangled in a back alley, while Annie (Andrea Lowe) investigates the moorland killing. We know their two cases will turn out to be linked, but we don’t know how.
About this programme
3/6. Part one of two. Cabbot investigates when a woman is found murdered on the moors. As the identity of the victim is established, it becomes apparent any number of suspects may have had a reason to want her dead. Meanwhile, Banks is called in when the body of a teenage girl is discovered in a storage room down an alleyway. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star.
Cast and crew
Cast
- DCI Banks
- Stephen Tompkinson
- DS Annie Cabbot
- Andrea Lowe
- DS Winsome Jackman
- Lorraine Burroughs
- DC Ken Blackstone
- Jack Deam
- CS Rydell
- Colin Tierney
- DC Kevin Templeton
- Tom Shaw
- Timothy Randall
- Ian Bartholomew
- Grace
- Di Botcher
- Dina Howarth
- Gail Burland
- Claire Naylor
- Joanna Burnett
- Dr Elizabeth Waring
- Raquel Cassidy
- Gareth Todd
- David Corden
- Geoff Daniels
- Tim Dantay
- Malcolm Austin
- Michael Maloney
- Chelsea Pilton
- Sarah Beck Mather
- Donna Daniels
- Susan Mitchell
- Lucy Payne
- Charlotte Riley
- Jamie Morden
- Morgan Watkins
- Stuart Kinsey
- Ian Weichardt
- Dr Burns
- Robert Wilcox
- Hotel receptionist
- Claire Eden
- Solicitor
- Sian Webber
Crew
- Director
- Bill Anderson
- Executive Producer
- Andy Harries
- Executive Producer
- Francis Hopkinson
- Producer
- Stephen Smallwood
- Writer
- Laurence Davey
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