Loved the moment where Mel is attacked in prison by rapist / killer Samuel West and she (quite easily) turns the tables on him and has him in a painful wrist lock. This is in a story called Life Sentence by John Milne. Susannah Harker is the only survivor of the murderer's spree and there's a weird bond between them. We sort of knew the identity of a guilty party as soon as we saw him, though missed that in the first few seconds the survivor is living in a house by a railway track, which figures prominently. With Mark Aiken, Patterson Joseph.
Deathwatch is about organised crime in the sixties - it becomes apparent that an entire jury has been bumped off as revenge for their verdict that hanged a man in 1963. (Not sure the Django Rheinhart type guitar track in the flashback particularly sounded '1963' to me.) The man's dead brother isn't dead after all - had this story already - it's Ronald Pickup! And the ex police detective (who as Q immediately observed 'seems to have done well for himself') is none other than David Hemmings, and Warren Mitchell also appears. Stephen Davis wrote it.
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| David Hemmings 2002 / Blow Up 1966 |
There's some interesting revolving camera stuff going on in this, shot by Graham Frake, directed by Maurice Phillips, notably a team conference scene in which the camera artfully sweeps around the table, and later in a confrontation on a deserted wharf opposite the Millennium Dome.
And David Thacker's Special Relationship begins with a bravura piece of camerawork as we start outside a posh London residence and follow a burglar break in, down the stairs, into a bedroom where he starts stealing stuff, notices a dead women and flees, in one shot. David Thacker is the director, Graham Frake on camera again. It's partly about senior ministry cover-ups, the CIA and affairs and jealous wives.
Corin Redgrave is the dodgy Minister, Ruth Gemmell a detective from Boyd's past. With Patricia Hodge, Anton Lesser, Amanda Root (dead woman's lover, 1995 Persuasion, Foyle's War, lots of TV), Kika Markham (Minister's secretary).
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| Ruth Gemmell, who we've seen earlier this year in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Silent Witness |
Boyd steals DNA! And shouts at Grace! And arrests the Minister twice!
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