DCI Banks (TV Series) Cold Is the Grave: Part 2 (2011) User Reviews

The daughter of a senior policeman running amok

[safenoe · 10/10 · 22 October 2016]

This review relates to parts 1 and 2 of Cold is the Grave. Cold is the Grace is also the final episode(s) of series 1 of DCI Banks, which is a fine British drama series from the UK, set in Yorkshire.

DCI Alan Banks is played by Stephen Tompkinson, and he has definitely shed his image as the comedic reporter from Drop the Dead Donkey back in the 90s. I really like this drama series, and it's sort of an antidote to Lewis if you know what I mean. There are some wickedly funny moments in this rather grim and sad episode, where Chief Superintendent Rydell and his wife beg DCI Banks to search for their wayward daughter who has run away somewhere in London, caught up in the wrong, bag crowd. Banks has to be very discrete about this and not do it on police time.

Incidentally, Rydell and wife live in a fancy place (in the Yorkshire dales perhaps?) so kudos to the location scouts.

The ending seemed to crumble for DCI Banks, but he recovered and got the respect back of DS Annie Cabbot.

major script software upgrade

[A_Different_Drummer · 10/10 · 24 July 2022]

Not merely a good episode it is a complete change in quality and pace from the entire season, one of the best detective scripts ever to come out of Brit TV. Hypnotic.

It All Went Wrongs!

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 8 January 2019]

When I first started this series, I thought it was a bit stilted and that the characters were stiff and stereotypical. In a short time, the writing has gotten better and the cases more interesting. We start out with a man being beaten and his van stolen. Not long after that, the thief is found dead. What transpires is the unfolding of a vicious murder by a crime boss and the fall of a former police chief. Along the way, Banks makes some really stupid decisions. For example, when he brings the drunken daughter to his hotel room, all good intentions aside.

Cold Is the Grave: Part 2

[Prismark10 · 3/10 · 6 March 2021]

The clunky melodramatic writing in this episode was a bit hard to take. It was a bit of a mess.

Emily is found dead and it seems it was not a drug overdose or violence but poisoning.

Anyone could be in the frame including Rydell.

Banks even suspects Rydell of not only killing his daughter but being in league with Clough. Passing important information to him.

Clough and his henchman being up north was to find out what just took place with the van robbery. It was his money that was stolen.

There were some not very bright robbers and parents in this story. Unfortunately even the Banks and Cabbot had some duff lines.