Shadowplay by Ed Whitmore. Mentally unbalanced women are being manipulated to murder by the mysterious 'Shepherd'. At first we think it's overly-enunciating Paul Kaye, then suspect his brother, James Larkin, but of course it's Ed, so it's someone else entirely.
With Lucy Gaskell, Laurence Penry-Jones, Eve Best.
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| Eve Best was in The Shadow Line and The Honorable Woman |
Mike Spragg is on camera. He shot 66 episodes of this, pretty much the whole of Seasons 3 - 9.
It was Claire Goose's decision to leave the show - she'd before it had a three year stint on Casualty. It was a bit of a shock to have Holly Aird (who in 2004 lived 'just round the corner' from her in Chiswick) depart also (she was pregnant).
Thus in the Season Five opener, Towers of Silence, we have a new DS 'Andy' Stephenson, played by Georgia Mackenzie, who unfortunately isn't assimilated very well into her first story, and also a new pathologist, 'Felix' (I know, what's going on?) Gibson, Esther Hall. The other surprise is to find Spence in prison, but in Joe Cozens' screenplay all is not what it seems.
The story involves some shadowy insurance company and a dodgy Indian importer / exporter of fake drugs, who all get away with it.
It's interesting watching these things in a continuous run - most people have to wait until the next year (at least) to watch the next series.
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