Season 4 - Episode 1
ITV 1 (UK)
For the fourth year in a row, early January sees a three part adaptation of one of Lynda La Plante's Anna Travis novels. This time, "Silent Scream" gets the treatment, and aims to follow the previous three in being gripping, unmissable drama.
The brilliant Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds are back as Travis and James Langton, and this first part wastes no time getting into the details. Langton has been passed over for promotion and knows that one of his team is responsible. Unbeknownst to the team, he takes over their latest case, the grizzly (although I've got to say, for this show, not as grizzly as past cases) murder of a young film starlet, partly to find out who ratted him out. While the chemistry between Langton and Travis fizzles, it turns out that the young film star wasn't the innocent little girl she was seen as by the public, and by the end of the episode there are several possible suspects floating around, as well as an ex flatmate dead from what appears on first glance to be a drug overdose.
The first part of "Silent Scream" has done exactly what it should have done. It's set the scene, got the viewer gripped and excited to see what happens in next week's installment. Couple that with typically excellent performances, and we're onto a winner here.
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