The Meaning of Death. Rhidian Brook. Director Brin Higgins.
Harry investigates the death of a woman in a paddling pool.
Separately a kidnap victim is found dead, then various other random murders occur. We're in Rope / Leopold-Loeb territory here, with Rory Kinnear and Leo Bill (Becoming Jane, Gosford Park).
And we meet Nikki's convict father, Leigh Lawson, who swears he's going straight.
Mind and Body by Jeff Povey. Director Richard Signy.
Ingenious look at parallel drugs trade where it is legal to import drugs from one country, repackage them and sell them to another. Only in this case, the fraudulent trader is replacing the drugs with weaker or older versions.
Starts with Nikki madly tailing a 'vicar' who's just stabbed three people into a church.
And from various corpses that end up in our mortuary we begin to see the direct impact of this on various patients with mental problems. First a rehab centre is suspected, then a single mum drug dealer until we get to the real crook.
Some nice photography from Kevin Rowley.
Povey introduces some welcome humour, e.g. on post mortem on dog, which helps to prove that wife of kidnap victim was lying (Lolita Chakrabarti investigating). And Harry: "I'll tell you about my Aunt Miriam who thought she was a lemon and lost her zest for life."
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