Wednesday, 4 March 2026

More Silent Witness (2011-12)

Season 14 finale: The Prodigal. Michael Crompton. Director James Strong.

Basically, a shooting in the Dutch Embassy, police shot and killed, a boy gone missing. Naturally Harry finds the boy and is great with him - as he has always been since that one with the school kids and the death cloud (Season 8's Death by Water). It all fits devilishly together, even down to why a different pathologist (who Harry tutored) is called in.

With Matthew McNulty (After the Flood), Kate Ashfield, Lorcan Cranitch, Sarah Solemani, some Dutch people, Oliver Chris (Trying, Emma.)

Season 15. Death Has No Dominion. Ed Whitmore. Director Andy Hay.

Nikki's Dad has died and she can't process it. Because Leo and Harry have rowed, she is assigned to a murder which everyone assumes involves the mysterious 'Wraith', an attention-seeking madwoman, and into the path of obsessed detective Vincent Regan, who in a mirror story can't process his wife's death.

Without giving anything away, it's even more devilishly clever than the last one!

I loved the subtlety of the sequences where you think the fireman and his family are being stalked and only afterwards realise what has been going on (and only if you think about it) - a nice elusive story detail.

Harry is teamed up with pregnant detective Shelley Conn.



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