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Wednesday's Child: Part 2
Prismark1026 July 2021
There are several twists in the finale. The dead boy was someone who died of a heroin overdose.

DCI Banks believes that Kyle might have been involved in drug dealing. However whoever is organising it might be using mini cabs or even ice cream vans.

Morton still believes that Kyle's mother is behind it all. Maybe to get money from Kyle's father by way of a ransom. However Morton's thinking might be clouded due to her own tearaway son.

Banks thinks that Kyle's father is not squeaky clean.

The suspect believed to be the kidnapper. He is someone who had a long criminal record but might have turned a corner. Banks thinks that he might even be trying to protect Kyle.

This was a multilayered story. Several suspects, a few with a shady past. Someone who believes that society is falling apart and wants to do something about it.
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10/10
Things Aren't Always As They Seem
Hitchcoc11 January 2019
These two episodes show a kind of puzzle to police law enforcement. The people involved and the "victim" are pretty much known, but because of self-protection, details fail to drop. Morton has problems. Her eldest son is getting in trouble with the law. She tries to bond with the missing boy's mother, but she lacks the skills to make that happen. The persons we think of as suspects are much more complicated than originally thought. The conclusion is quite gripping.
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10/10
Gripping season 3 opener of DCI Banks
safenoe4 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This review relates to parts 1 and 2 of this impressive season 3 opener of DCI Banks, a show which is must-see TV.

One aspect of DCI Banks I love is the rolling greens of the Yorkshire Dales, and the opening scene has DCI Banks (Stephen "Drop the Dead Donkey" Tompkinson) hosting a barbecue for his colleagues at his lovely place in the Dales. DS Annie Cabbot turns up with her newborn, and it's obvious there's tension between her and DI Helen Morton (Caroline "Doc Martin" Catz).

I haven't read the novel, but all credit to the creator/author and scriptwriter for their impressive work and the twist at the end which completely upended the motives of Jimmy Chivers (Geoff Bell in an incredible performance) and Paul Cain (John Lightbody, who was in a couple of Midsomer Murder episodes). I never saw the ending coming and it imparted a greater sense of morality amidst the drug scene.

We see DCI Banks having a paternalistic attitude to DS Cabbot's return from maternity leave, and also DS Cabbot's travails with her eldest son who is facing expulsion from school for being a bookmaker. DS Cabbot also attempts (sort of contrived) to bond with Katy Heath (Christine Bottomley) make the viewer squirm and sort of makes things worse.
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