Kick off a new season with old pros - Jim Keeble and Dudi Appleton wrote Effective Range, but it's one of their more far-fetched ones. (Spoilers.) A body is found staged in the same way as that of a serial killer from 20 years ago, who we see in contemporary police interview footage, quite chillingly portrayed by Leo Starr. The pathologist at the time, John Hannah, whose wife was taken by the killer, is convinced it's not the same man. It turns out to be his son, who has staged the killing (the man was dead already) to ?remind everyone of his father? Turns out Hannah has been keeping the killer in a cage for 20 years!!
However I can concede that yes, DNA could survive for 20 years outside on a boat. How Hannah managed to just magically turn up in the autopsy room though was something of a miracle.
Tim Prager has written Grievance Culture around the side-effects of the 'MeToo' movement, with some flair. Brilliant pathology lecturer Kevin McNally will not bow down to it, positively wants to 'trigger' his students and not let them be in a 'safe space' - quite right, he's there to challenge them. (Lots of good writing going on here: hadn't heard before that the Superman story is a retelling of the Judeo-Christian origin myth!) But one complainer makes him a social outcast with students protesting for his removal (a bit of a jump cut too far for me). The panel of judges who've turned down his application for head of the Criminal Court or something start being murdered. Whilst he's the obvious suspect, particularly of amusing copper John Thompson, it's pretty obvious who the real culprits are.
To have the professor kill himself though is a real wrong note to me, which helps to keep it off the 'Best Of' list.
Meanwhile, Cara's college mate is trying to seduce Jack and makes false allegations against him; and Gabriel wants Jack to teach him how to be a fighter.
The amazing building's the Royal Holloway University of London.
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| Despite the name it's actually just outside the M25, between Staines and Virginia Water |
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| Aki Omoshaybi |
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