Fugue States by Ed Whitmore. A young man injured in a traffic accident is discovered to be a missing five year old from fifteen years ago - Joe Armstrong. He claims not to know where he's been. And where's his twin sister?
Into this comes a different strand - a former doctor Sean McGinley who was renowned for taking abused children out of their families. And a hospital doctor Ray Stevenson and his daughter and wife Maimie McCoy and Denise Black.
Mel accidentally shoots a deaf man who it turns out figures; Mel we learn has herself been adopted with an unfit mother, who she anonymously goes to visit.
In Anger Management, written by John Milne and Andy Hay, who also directed, Boyd is seeing a therapist and trying to learn how to control his anger - good work from Trevor Eve here. A man - who is an incredible flamenco guitarist - Nigel Terry - comes out of prison. And a man at his halfway house has committed 'suicide'. Into the mix comes a criminal T.P McKenna and his ex-con assistant Q (who was in Silent Witness as well), and a former prisoner (who's also practising anger management) Andrew Tiernan.
Part one ends with a brilliant flamenco performance cross cut to the assault on Frankie, a seriously well edited sequence by Adam Trotman and / or Joanna Garrard. Kevin Byrne is credited as the flamenco composer but the just brilliant guitarist isn't credited.
Loved Boyd losing it with Q in a swimming pool - "Why didn't you make the right choice??" (This is an actor who rather mysteriously refers to himself as 'Q'. Nothing to do with my Q.)
I've just seen young Terry in The Lion in Winter and he was also Arthur in Excalibur and played Caravaggio in 1986.
Then in The Hardest Word (Doug Milburn) Boyd and the team are forced to work alongside somewhat dodgy coppers Phil Daniels and Paul Reynolds (who was in Press Gang!) as they investigate seemingly kinky murders. A distinguished cast includes Phyllida Law, Julian Glover, James Dreyfuss and Emma Fielding, a psychiatrist who it turns out has her own murky upbringing.
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