Wire in the Blood
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Wire In The Blood is an ITV television series which teams a university forensic psychologist profiler, Dr. Tony Hill (Robson Green), with a tough female Detective Inspector, Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris). The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid, and is distribued on DVD by Koch Vision.
Only the first two episodes of the first series, "Mermaids Singing" and "Shadows Rising", are based on her books, with the rest having been written by others, however, the second episode of series four, "Torment", is an adaptation of Val's latest Tony Hill novel, "The Torment of Others". The series have appeared in America on the cable channel BBC America, and in Australia on the public channel ABC.
The title of the series is taken from a line in T.S. Eliot's poem Burnt Norton, one of the Four Quartets. The name of the first episode comes from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, as does the first episode of the fourth series.
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[edit] Plot
The series is set in the fictional town of Bradfield, assumed to lie within West Yorkshire. However, the filming location is the cityscape and surrounding countryside of Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland. Each episode usually involves a serial killer. The offbeat Asperger-like behaviour of Robson Green's Tony Hill is rather disconcertingly reminiscent of the behaviour of the traumatised detective Dave Creegan, the character that Green played in the 1997 ITV series Touching Evil.
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Series 1
[edit] The Mermaids Singing
Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is teamed up with DI Carol Jordan in the hunt for the torture killer of several men. Based on McDermid's book of the same name.
[edit] Shadows Rising
Tony suspects that a serial killer is at work when the bodies of two young girls are discovered. Meanwhile, the stalker of TV celebrity couple Jack and Amanda Vance appears to be escalating dangerously. Based on McDermid's novel The Wire in the Blood.
[edit] Justice Painted Blind
When two of the former jurors in a high-profile murder case are killed in the same fashion, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice.
[edit] Series 2
[edit] Still She Cries
A deceptive and predatory serial killer fixates on Carol.
[edit] The Darkness of Light
The discovery of three buried murder victims killed 500 years apart and a fire in a nearby hotel points to a mysterious and secretive religious cult.
[edit] Right to Silence
Associates of an imprisoned gangland boss are being killed one by one.
[edit] Sharp Compassion
A killer is targeting patients at the Bradfield Cross hospital.
[edit] Series 3
[edit] Redemption
Tony suspects a serial killer when the bodies of three boys are discovered.
[edit] Bad Seed
Newly released killer William "Mack the Knife" MacAdam is Tony's prime suspect when a series of brutal murders send Bradfield reeling.
[edit] Nothing but the Night
Tony is bewildered by an apparently schizophrenic killer whose methods fluctuate wildly.
[edit] Synchronicity
A sniper appears to be killing at random, leaving deck cards at the scenes of crime. Meanwhile, Tony has to deal with his own mortality when he is diagnosed with a brain tumor.
[edit] Series 4
Hermione Norris does not return as Carol Jordan in series 4 but will remain a character in the books. Simone Lahbib of Bad Girls joins the as D.I Alex Fielding.
[edit] Time to Murder and Create
As a rape case ends in failure for Tony, a sadistic serial killer is at work.
[edit] Torment
The grisly murder of a prostitute recalls a series of similar murders years ago - ones whose perpetrator is locked up in a mental asylum. Based on McDermid's novel The Torment of Others
Directed by Declan O Dwyer
[edit] Hole in the Heart
Tony is troubled by the attempted suicide of one of his students as well as the mystery of a series of deaths that are tied to a suicide cult. This episode takes many twist and turns including the possiblity of a tie with the Masons.
[edit] The Wounded Surgeon
Tony has no doubt the first killer he helped catch, recently released from prison, has started killing again.
