Despite its low 5.6 IMDB rating we enjoyed The Murder Line much more than The Undeclared War. For one thing it moves along at a brisk pace with a sort-of Coenish tone, beginning when two crooks manage to get through the US-Canada border despite having a conscious body in their boot; when they open it he shoots and kills both of them then escapes. He is Hamza Haq. Then introduce a cop, Stephen Amell and a border patrol cop Tamara Podemski - who dislike each other from the get-go. One of the victims is, like the escaper. an old college buddy of Amell. The plot (with flashbacks) begins to thicken, like a good marmalade.
In tandem a naughty scamp Katia Edith Wood finds her BF has overdosed om drugs and needs someone to complete a drugs deal; enlists the help of innocent comic dealer Jeremy Watson. They end up pushing a man out of a window, which is funny (you had to be there), and are then forced together.
This is writing characters as chess pieces. And how they all move around each other on the board. Because then we also meet Minnie Driver, who's clearly into some very dodgy activity, and her refreshingly British cohort Thomas Craig.
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