Based on a book by ex cop Kate London, adapted by Patrick Harbinson, refreshingly seems to fall straight into the middle of a story as a young woman and a cop have fallen to their deaths. Unfortunately it's not long before the dreaded flashback disease takes hold. Our leading investigator Gemma Whelan is gay, for a change, though I miss the damaged protagonists of yore, the variously inebriated Fitz, Jane Tennyson and Morse.
Why do a cop and a young woman fall from the top of a tower block, and why does the WPC who was there go on the run? We shall find out. Meanwhile there's also an unpleasant character called Laszlo Kozacs for good measure (not the first time that has happened, either), causing us to laugh (didn't you shoot Paper Moon? etc etc.)
Better than your average ITV thing, nuanced, she doesn't get her man, the ethics are all a bit cloudy.
Whelan was in Killing Eve, White House Farm, Gentleman Jack, GOT, Tahira Sharif, Nick Holder, Emmett J Scanlan, Jimmy Akingbola, Karl Davies.
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