Silent Witness was positively mild coming after Luther.
Or negatively - depending on how terrifying you like your ridiculous psycho serial killers and their thrillers to be.
Yes, the BBC’s forensics-based drama (tonight starting its TWENTY SECOND series) has never been nearly as alarming or loopy as John ‘Loofer’ Luther’s escapades.
But then what is?
Tame: Silent Witness was positively mild coming after Luther. It has never been nearly as alarming or loopy as John ‘Loofer’ Luther’s escapades... but then what is?
(Idris Elba may bring his tormented DCI back for another season but God only knows what the writers will come up with to top that piquerism fetishist in the clown mask and groovy illuminated hoodie).
So compared to last week’s fun and games, inevitably Silent Witness was like watching Heartbeat (or Quincy M.E, if you wanted an investigator with more medical credentials).
In theory of course, it was a relief when the first episode of the two-part storyline ‘Two Spirits’ didn’t give us nightmares about aspects of our lives like having surgery, catching the night-bus, or buying things on eBay.
At the same time, it wasn’t exactly a walk in the park either.
Easy: Compared to last week’s fun and games, inevitably Silent Witness was like watching Heartbeat (or Quincy M.E, if you wanted an investigator with more medical credentials)
It opened with a woman making the same mistake as one of last week’s victims: going home after an evening clubbing in London and waiting for a night bus.
Hadn’t she seen Luther?!
‘I’ll be fine!’ she told her friend #WordsYouShouldNeverSayInSilentWitnessOrAnyCrimeSeries
Incredibly she then managed to do something even more dangerous than the piquerist’s target: she went to find a ladies loo.
Only a ‘public convenience’ would do too.
(She really did like to live on the edge).
Ominous: It opened with a woman making the same mistake as one of last week’s victims: going home after an evening clubbing in London and waiting for a night bus
For reasons best known to herself, rather than find a coffee bar or pretend to buy a burger and use the facilities in McDonalds as most of us would, the blonde tottered off in her high-heeled dancing shoes towards a sign TOILETS situated improbably in the scariest-looking housing estate in the West End.
‘Would you go down there late at night if you were a woman?’ asked a detective later, ingeniously working out a fundamental flaw with the plot.
Even one of the programme’s main characters, forensic scientist jack Hodgson agreed with us (NO!) scoffing: ‘I wouldn’t go down there at all.’
Bizarre: Incredibly she then managed to do something even more dangerous than the piquerist’s target - she went to find a ladies loo... situated improbably in the scariest-looking housing estate in the West End and looking like the toilet from Trainspotting
Having descended into somewhere resembling a creepy multi-storey car-park, she was strangely undeterred even when she found the Ladies was ‘out of order’, simply going into the Gents instead.
This was something only a madman would do – literally, it turned out – not least because it appeared to be the very same toilet used in the famous scene in ‘Trainspotting.’
She was clearly bursting though, settling down on the filthiest toilet seat in London to do a wee and carrying on when a man in the next cubicle started puking his guts out.
Amazingly, she survived - even when someone came into the Gents and murdered him, not even bothering to check for any witnesses nearby.
Blast from the past: To be fair viewers under 30 had been confused about what was happening from the beginning – when they saw someone going into this funny glass box on the pavement, tap some buttons on a metal box, and somehow make a phone call – rather than use a mobile
To be fair viewers under 30 had been confused about what was happening from the beginning – when they saw someone going into this funny glass box on the pavement, tap some buttons on a metal box, and somehow make a phone call – rather than just use their mobile.
This was the killer, saying he was ‘going to cut someone’s throat.’
We had then watched one of the Metropolitan Police’s finest in action when an officer jumped out of the patrol car, run into the phone box in question frantically looking around, before reporting back to her colleague: No, the suspect wasn’t in there.
Here we go: Only when Professor Thomas Chamberlain performed the autopsy on a person killed in the Men’s toilet did the theme become clear
Curious: The body showed evidence of a double mastectomy and phalloplasty surgery
Only when Professor Thomas Chamberlain performed the autopsy on the person killed in the Men’s toilet did the theme become clear.
The body showed evidence of a double mastectomy and phalloplasty surgery.
‘He’s transgender,’ concluded D.I. Murphy. (Nothing gets past her.)
From there, the thrust of the storyline emerged.
The call from the phone box had been to the charity/support group Transaction, and the victim a volunteer.
Target: Evie was the next victim, a woman who was stabbed as she threw up after inexplicably buzzing someone into her flat without checking who it was
The next one was too – Evie, a woman who was also stabbed as she threw up, after inexplicably buzzed someone into her flat without checking who it was.
Her mother (Phil Mitchell’s solicitor Richie) told police after Evie appeared on television talking about Transaction she had received hate mail from ‘far right groups, religious extremists, some feminists...’
The two prime suspects were both connected to Transaction: Toby Logan, one of its fund-raisers, and Nick Marlowe, a sergeant in the army and married man with kids that Evie had helped with the crisis he was having about his identity, specifically gender.
In the frame: The two prime suspects were both connected to Transaction: Toby Logan (L) one of its fund-raisers, and Nick Marlowe (R) a sergeant in the army and married man with kids
Drama: To say Silent Witness was issue-led would be an understatement. (It made EastEnders look subtle)
‘Evie Williams told me once: gender is who you go to bed as. Sexuality is who you go to bed with,’ Marlowe tried to explain to his wife.
‘It feels like you’ve had a affair with another woman,’ she tried to explain back. ‘But that woman is you.’
To say Silent Witness was issue-led would be an understatement. (It made EastEnders look subtle).
The two detectives investigating the murders and our heroes from the pathology lab debated all the topical Transgender issues (personal and political) at great length, virtually constantly.
As did all the characters working at or using the help centre, especially Nick Marlow and his friend Kelly Hayes.
Marlow’s conflicting feelings were clear from two of his speeches in particular.
Plenty to talk about: Our heroes from the pathology lab debated all the topical Transgender issues (personal and political) at great length, virtually constantly
‘I just went out in the street dressed as I want to be for the first time,’ he celebrated during one call to Transaction, over footage of him walking down the street in a wig, full make-up, and woman’s clothes. ‘The rest of the time I’m stuck in a kind of limbo. I can’t be who I am – this woman inside of me that is desperate to get out. This is my ego, my id, my spirit, my essence. She’s everything. It’s who I am.’
Later though Nick phoned his wife and pledged: ‘I love you Amy. I have been a bad person and made you suffer. I am going to do my best to drive this out of me with everything I can. You’ll see.’
When he strutted out of a bar to the sound of Spandau Ballet’s Gold (‘gold...’) seconds later, moments after yet another member of the Transaction team had been murdered (throwing up in the toilets downstairs) there didn’t seem to be any doubt he was the killer.
Mind you, with an episode to go there was still plenty of time for a twist.
The way that anything to do with Marlowe’s conflict was accompanied by sweeping violins also seemed incongruous – his dilemma surely not that sad if he kept on killing people.
In fact it would be really be a turn-up for the books after so many Politically Correct musings, if the culprit really was someone from ‘the Trans community.’
More startling than anything in Luther...
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Main photo article Silent Witness was positively mild coming after Luther.
Or negatively – depending on how terrifying you like your ridiculous psycho serial killers and their thrillers to be.
Yes, the BBC’s forensics-based drama (tonight starting its TWENTY SECOND series) has never been nearly as alarming o...
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