This series has been recommissioned every year without fail since 1996, making it surely one of the most popular ever.. McCrery was a former murder squad detective. We watched a two parter called Long Days Short Nights, written by Ashley Pharoah and Nigel McCrery. It's quite meaty and torrid, involving a group of hedonists led by wealthy decadent Colin Salmon and Emily Mortimer, and features unsettling post mortem stuff, occult murders, sex tapes and a public blow job for coke scene that is quite un-BBC.
The forensic team comprises Amanda Burton and William Armstrong. Police are John McGlynn and Claire Higgins, and Ruth Gemmell who we recognise from somewhere (an episode of Lewis, an episode of The Inspector Lynley Murders, and Bridgerton.) Matthew Steer is the misbehaving youth.
The next broadcast episode, Silence Visible is not on iPlayer. It's the story of a gay man who is murdered in a police cell and the suspicion it might have been one of the cops. Perhaps it was deemed to be no longer acceptable.
So the next we saw was Sins of the Fathers, another merry tale of a young Vietnamese woman Teo-Wa Vuong who confesses to her older and horrible fiance that she was raped on the journey over. He goes crazy and attacks her. We're not sure what happened next, but a body is discovered. Burton strikes up a bond with her.
In tandem Burton is confronting her sister Ruth McCabe over the murder by bomb of their father, by the IRA.
In a sad finale, DS Cox Ruth Gemmell dies. And they have to do a post mortem, which I found very odd. It was fucking clear what she died from. But it's police practice, as the death is deemed 'sudden and unexpected' and a PM must be done.
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