- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
Barrington Pheloung writes nice music, but the way Lewis scatters it about is shameless. His delicate string passages are used as emotional infill to make up for any flatness in the story. It’s like those scenic shots of Oxford and environs — delightful, but they can only take us so far. That’s a roundabout way of saying this is not Lewis’s finest two hours. There’s a desultory feel to the plot that not even lively turns from Gary Kemp and Lucy Cohu can lift.
A babysitter is smothered and tied to a bedstead with a knot that Hathaway instantly recognises as a buntline hitch. Is the murderer into bondage or boating? Look out for a bizarre moment when Hathaway asks a scientist about souls...
About this programme
3/4. The murder of a babysitter throws up a number of questions for Lewis and Hathaway - was she the intended victim or was the killer targeting her employers? Was the crime calculated or opportunistic? And why was she elaborately tied up after being murdered? As the detectives dig for clues, they are led into a world of suburban swinging and fetish photography, far removed from the Oxford they know. Gary Kemp (The Krays), Lucy Cohu (The Awakening), Ciaran McMenamin (Primeval) and Georgia Taylor (Casualty) guest star.
Cast and crew
Cast
- DI Lewis
- Kevin Whately
- DS Hathaway
- Laurence Fox
- Dr Laura Hobson
- Clare Holman
- Ch Supt Innocent
- Rebecca Front
- Marion Hammond
- Lucy Cohu
- Tom Garland
- Gary Kemp
- Dr Bob Massey
- Con O'Neill
- Nick Addams
- Ciaran McMenamin
- Honey Addams
- Georgia Taylor
- Dr Joshua Ezrin
- Gregor Truter
- Gideon Massey
- Pierro Niel-Mee
- Stanza Massey
- Anna Wilson-Jones
- Yasmin Randall
- Leila Mimmack
- Silas Whittaker
- Bronson Webb
- Midge Davies
- Kirsty Osmon
- Jessica Lake
- Abigail Hardingham
- Davina Garland
- Katrine De Candole
- Kyle Hutchinson
- Merveille Lukeba
- Lucy Bond
- Georgina Strawson
- Zoe
- Chloe Rose
Crew
- Director
- Nicholas Renton
- Executive Producer
- Michele Buck
- Executive Producer
- Damien Timmer
- Producer
- Chris Burt
- Writer
- Russell Lewis
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