A one-off, a year after the main series ended, set in Hong Kong, written by Paul Abbott, doesn't quite work for me. It's partly that Fitz doesn't seem to quite exist away from his usual universe (Ricky Tomlinson's appearance is largely redundant); also that the behaviour of the killer is just so far-fetched that it leaves me cold. (Maybe also the one note performance from Barnaby Kay.)
Fitz is enlisted by Governor Michael Pennington and local DI Freda Foh Shen. Rene Liu is the unfortunate fiancee and Benedict Wong a victim.
Abbott gets in some 'we shouldn't have been here in the first place' messaging, which is perhaps a little superfluous on the eve of the withdrawal.
There was a ten years later one-off, Nine Eleven, which I'm not sure we've even seen...
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