Blue Murder (TV Series) Hit and Run (2004) User Reviews

Three cases for the price of one

[gridoon2024 · 6/10 · 21 August 2011]

DCI Janine Lewis returns to active duty after her maternity leave, and she's soon up to her neck in murders: an unidentified young woman is found brutally slain in a river; a little girl - a schoolmate of Janine's son - is run over by a car outside her school, and the driver doesn't stop; and one of the two suspects for the hit-and-run incident is found shot in the head. What's the connection between the three cases?

"Hit And Run", the second episode of "Blue Murder", is not quite up to the standards of the first. There are some good plot twists (one, in particular, seems to be inspired by a famous 1990's movie, which I won't mention here), but the episode is a little too grim to be enjoyable. Appropriate for the subject matter, I know, but I probably wouldn't watch this one again. **1/2 out of 4.

Hit and Run

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 7 July 2022]

Series one suffered for being overlog. Two feature length episode to investigate once case.

The second series returns with one stand alone episode.

DCI Janine Lewis has had a baby and returns to duty. She sees a little girl get run over as she drops her son off at school. She also investigates the body of a young woman found in the river.

There is a connection with both cases. The young woman worked at a strip club. The burnt out car that ran over the girl belonged to the manager of the strip club.

The man who owns the strip club is a person of interest but he is supposedly abroad.

This story zips along as Lewis and her team try to solves both cases but then one other suspect is shot dead. Lewis also needs to deal with a potential leak in her department.

There is a twist but it just demonstrates the cops as being rather dim and not doing proper research on potential suspects.

Like other ITV shows made by Granada and shot in Manchester. It is all a bit generic. The USP of this show is Lewis balancing family life and work life.

I don't think Caroline Quentin fully convinces me as a hard as nails detective.

Better than Dedalus

[Dr_Coulardeau · 10/10 · 13 June 2008]

Two crimes, two deaths, two lines come together in the course of the inquiry. The tricky intricacies of the two lines and how they get together is the core of the film. So you'll have to watch it to know. The first line is a hit and run with an officially reported stolen car But the hit and run was caused by the stress of the mission the driver was on. The second line is that of illegal immigration from Eastern Europe: girls who come to England to be nothing but whores and eventually barmaids, to cover up the deal. And then you add to that a fictitious pimp who looks and sounds like Bizet's famous invisible Arlésienne. What appears clearly in this episode is that the author cooled down the DCS and insisted on the social and political problem treated here. Quite a good job.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines