Paul Abbott's the producer now, in advance of writing his own episodes, and later successes like Clocking Off, State of Play, Shameless and No Offence.
Jimmy McGovern's Hillsborough episode, featuring a deranged Robert Carlyle (who's a bit too good at roles like this). It's also the one where when Ecclestone's stabbed, there's a pinch of no sound just before we hear the horrible bayonet cleave into the body - an effective moment, to be sure.
Panhandle calls Fitz 'an emotional rapist'. As a character he's just too confrontational, too argumentative, too sure he's right...
Still photographed by Ivan Strasburg, this time edited by Edward Mansell.
That last bomb for the Sun journalist is I reckon Jimmy's way of saying 'fuck you' to The Sun, which published outrageous and untrue stories about the Liverpool fans after the tragedy, referred to in the narrative.
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