Law & Order: UK (TV Series) Deal (2011) User Reviews

That bloke's got more lives than my cat.

[Mrpalli77 · 9/10 · 27 October 2017]

An early teenage girl (Chloe Walker) was playing a war game in her x- box. She stopped playing to get in his parents' bedroom where his father fell asleep with his weed joint still burning. Shortly after they both noticed the bed is soaked of mother's blood. Coming up at the crime scene, detectives point out the father as prime suspect: anyway he's sick (suffering from MS) and his disease unable him to hold a gun; besides, the shooting came from a long range. Forensic lead detectives to a shanty building placed across the street and frequented by hookers, dealers and junkies: the bullet accidentally winded up in the apartment. So Brooks and Devlin have to look inside the crack house, where young brats are used for carrying drugs and some are compelled to do that due to addicted relatives.

Devlin is so angry in this episode towards dealers and unsympathetic mothers. He grew up in a poor family as wheel, but he stated in the past there were always been a grandma or an aunt who led you to the right pattern; at the end something terrible happened to him.

Potent and realistic.

[nickjgunning · 9/10 · 25 August 2020]

Teenage drug dealers and guns. Father with MS wakes to find his wife has been shot dead in bed beside him. It turns out to be a stray shot from a crack den opposite. A heartbreaking tale of exploitation and drug dealing with cold blooded teens and cold blooded adults. Without the big resources of Hollywood, a small screen series has an impact movies rarely achieve. The cast on every level are believable, and, unusually, former soap actors manage to inhabit the parts credibly. The mother who will abandon her child, to death, even, for her next fix, and the parent who thinks his medicinal supply of illegal drugs can't possibly be so bad. It makes its point forcibly: drug dealing is not a victimless crime and the way dealers enforce their rule is devastating communities. Its also about child exploitation and that whole subculture. So much is packed in that it extends to two episodes, and the devastating end of part one gives Bradley Walsh the opportunity to display some fine, understated acting. The writers create true economy while manipulating the tension. They also have you wanting to punch some of the characters, without descending to soap opera cliche, just naked depiction of their inhumanity, while driving home the message that drugs dehumanise, and break down the bonds between parents and child. The mother who doesn't care that her young son will be arrested and imprisoned for murder, and the father who isn't able to care for his teenage daughter, whose work pays for the drugs that he thinks help him. Well worth watching; maybe one to show the kids- sitting through it with them.

Jamie Bamber

[safenoe · 10/10 · 21 November 2022]

A very sad episode with the departure of Matt Devlin (Jamie Bamber) from Law & Order: UK. He and Bradley Walsh, the host of The Chase, were a great team, and really, it's a shame the team didn't survive the run of this fine series.

I loved the scene where Ronnie Brooks (Bradley Walsh) tucks into a delicious bucket of a dozen of fried chicken wings I think with complimentary chips in front of a hole in the wall takeaway in Tottenham I think. In the scene Ronnie rails against parents who name their children with apostrophes, which had a subtle undertone of you know what I mean.

This episode is quite poignant because it debuted only days after the London Riots.