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Silent Witness: Coup de Grace
- Director: David Richards
- Writer: Declan Croghan
- Producer: Sharon Bloom; Phillippa Giles
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Season 17, Episodes 3 & 4...
Silent Witness has been running since 1996 - surviving various character incarnations and preserving that certain morbidity we all have for murder...
This is a different approach from the usual dead-revealing-their-secrets template...a gay serial killer, the miscarriage of a miscarriage of justice and the troubled man in the middle of it all...it's a typical whodunnit - with all fingers pointing to the obvious...but, is he too obvious to be innocent???
Not a bad effort...it could have been more emotionally involved with the backstory of David - thereby ensuring a tearful, tragic conclusion.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Forensic evidence given by Nikki contributes to the release on appeal of disturbed ex-soldier David Bennetto, charged with murdering two gay boys, one of whom he had sex with. DI Rachel Klein is not convinced of David's innocence , especially when a rent boy calling himself Byron Lee is shot dead and David's car is caught on CCTV near the murder scene. The fact that Nikki is dating Bennetto's solicitor Greg Walker makes her partial in the inspector's eyes and she is removed from the case. On the night that yet another gay youngster Charlie Masham is also shot Greg, on a date with Nikki, gets a frantic phone call from Bennetto and they go to his flat where he points a gun at them.
Cast & Characters
Emilia Fox as Dr. Nikki Alexander;
Liz Carr as Clarissa;
David Caves as Jack Hodgson;
Lee Nicholas Harris as Armed Police officer;
Scott Stevenson as Policeman