- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
Professor Leo Dalton must be some kind of superhero because he’s always in the right place at exactly the right time. At the start of tonight’s episode he’s at the opening of a new ward at a hospital. Upstairs a blankly despairing dad, brandishing a shot gun, sits by his dying son’s bedside and switches off the boy’s life support machine before demanding Dalton comes to see him.
Thus begins another thickly bleak mystery involving suggestions of a conspiracy between shadowy establishment figures and a burglar, trapped in an attic, who starves to death. As ever, the pathologists become involved in ways that should not concern them.
About this programme
7/10. Part one of two. The discovery of a teenager's remains halts an eco-housing project, putting Nikki and Jack under pressure to help solve the mystery so construction can continue - and leading to an unexpected romance for Nikki. Meanwhile, Leo is caught up in a dangerous hospital siege when distraught father Tom Hancock holds a ward at gunpoint, insisting his terminally ill son's life-support is switched off. Emilia Fox, William Gaminara and David Caves star, with Mark Womack and Ed Stoppard. Continues tomorrow.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Dr Nikki Alexander
- Emilia Fox
- Prof Leo Dalton
- William Gaminara
- Jack Hodgson
- David Caves
- Clarissa Mullery
- Liz Carr
- Colin Connor
- Josef Altin
- DI Bob Cherry
- David Westhead
- Tom Hancock
- Mark Womack
- Dr Sanjit Jumani
- Pasha Bocarie
- Lord James Embleton
- Ed Stoppard
- Peter Hancock
- Jake Arrowsmith
- Kristen
- Velile Tshabalala
- Sir William Embleton
- Richard Johnson
- Stella Hancock
- Adie Allen
- Brian Blackburn
- Wayne Foskett
- Derren Blackburn
- James Burrows
- David Loader
- Cal Macaninch
- George Ryder
- Tim Preece
- Alison Ryder
- Teresa Banham
- Duty nurse
- Syreeta Kumar
- Tactical support leader
- Paul Bridle
- Armed officer
- Scott Lane
- Agency nurse
- Anna Jaskolka
- Company commander
- Kevin McGowan
Crew
- Director
- David Richards
- Producer
- Sharon Bloom
- Writer
- Stephen Gallagher
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