They adapted Jussi Adler-Olson's novel 'The Keeper of Last Causes' and it's a bit of another Slow Horses. Burnt out copper Matthew Goode is assigned to the titular department in the cliche of the worst part of the building, where fellow outcasts Syrian Alexej Manvelov and Leah Byrne join the team. The interaction of these three damaged individuals is fun.
Meanwhile, the subject of their investigation, Chloe Pirrie is being held imprisoned in some sort of industrial tank, and it's very disturbing. And she's been there four years, which I can't really believe. I mean she'd either be dead or mad, surely? I must admit to not liking this aspect of the story and hats off to Pirrie for being so filthy and bedraggled.
It's a good cast all round. Steven Miller, Jamie Sives, Kelly Macdonald, Alison Peebles, Aaron McVeigh, Mark Bonnar, Sanjeev Kohli, Tom Bulpett the aphasic brother.
Clearly left open for another series.
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