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| Professor Leo Dalton | William GAMINARA |
| Dr Nikki Alexander | Emilia FOX |
| Dr Harry Cunningham | Tom WARD |
| Holly Farr | Naomi BENTLEY |
| Leonid Polyak | Philip QUAST |
| Fran Price | Charlotte WESTON |
| Det Supt Paul Barker | Neil DUDGEON |
| Prof Janet Mander | Jaye GRIFFITHS |
| Derek Pargeter | Phil DAVIS |
| Clive Pearson | Ryan KIGGELL |
| Prison Officer | Luing ANDREWS |
| Ben Dawson | Sean FRANCIS |
| Mikhail Akimovitch | Roger RINGROSE |
| Gaidar | Andrew BYRON |
| Shop Assistant | Julia SANDIFORD |
| Oleg Kovig | Richard ATTLEE |
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First broadcast in 1996, Silent Witness is a long-running British television thriller series, now in its 12th season. The series was created by Nigel McCrery, a former murder squad detective in Nottingham, and was based on Prof. Helen Witwell, a forensic pathologist based in Sheffield who had previously worked with him. (Source: Wikipedia & others)
Episode 2: Following Holly's murder the team are assigned individual
bodyguards and Harry's minder, Frank (John Kirk), is extremely useful in a car chase.
The two work as a team and, through Pargeter, meet Oleg Kovik (Richard Attlee), a Russian
oligarch anxious to become a British national and who tells Harry that Fran
was a dear friend. (She also had a face-lift in Russia, and the removal
of her face has followed the lines of the operation.) Harry takes a dislike
to Kovik, who tries to bribe him by putting money in his bank account. Between
them Frank and Harry discover a disc hidden by Fran that was meant to be
in her forthcoming book. It reveals that Kovik and Polyak were bitter enemies
and Kovik used her to frame Polyak, making it necessary for her to die too.
Holly was killed as a warning. Janet uses her influence at the Home Office
to have Kovik's British citizenship denied and he is charged with the murders (Source: IMDB. Screencap courtesy of R.) REVIEW by Alison Graham (Source: Radio Times) Groovy pathologists Harry, Nikki and Leo have a new team member, a hip student who's just so enthusiastic that she rapidly becomes annoying. Young Holly likes to do things her way, which is pretty presumptuous for a kid who effectively is in the lab doing work experience. Even though she's as green as grass Harry takes her to a crime scene, where a woman's body has been dumped by a motorway. The victim's throat was cut and she was horribly mutilated. The story starts off intriguingly. But what with Holly being so unbelievable and the plot running away with itself to become some convoluted nonsense about murderous Russian oligarchs (see tomorrow's concluding episode), it fails to live up to its promise. Still, all is not lost. Doleful Leo at long last gets a romantic twinkle in his eye when he meets a comely forensic anthropologist. |
Last modified: 31-Oct-2009
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