Gripping ITV drama

Tweekums

This three part ITV drama opens with a police can crashing and in the aftermath Marcus Farrow, one of the prisoners, escapes. We then flash back to before the events and learn that Farrow is a police officer who is investigating a body found on the moors… the body of somebody who was meant to have left the country many years before. It isn't long before he is being warned off the case and then he returns home to find his wife bleeding to death. He is arrested but protests his innocence. We then get to the point where the story started; he is on the run with his erstwhile colleagues looking for him. Outsider DI Susan Reinhardt leads the inquiry and she is initially fairly sure of Farrow's guilt but his behaviour suggests that he is carrying out his own investigation rather than trying to flee as one would expect a guilty man to do. Farrow does still have a couple of friends on the force that he trusts… and it is these people who pose the greatest danger to him!

ITV have made quite a few solid crime dramas recently and this series is among the better ones. John Simm puts in a fine performance as Farrow and Rosie Cavaliero is equally good as Reinhardt. The rest of the cast are pretty good too; especially Struan Rodger who plays elderly villain Topher Lomax… who is threatening even though he is in a wheelchair and needs an oxygen cylinder. The story is gripping from start to finish and it wasn't until the final scene that we learn whether Farrow would be cleared or not. The tone is pretty dark for the most part as it constantly looks as though Farrow will be caught or those that he trusts are precisely the people he should be wary of. Overall this series is well worth watching if you enjoy crime dramas.

score 8/10

Tweekums 13 May 2014

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3014993/