Times change but attitudes can be slow to evolve, this episode explores some of those surrounding Rape, the issue that understandably and quite rightly, women consider as the supreme crime, but one that men somehow can't take seriously.
Men prefer to 'joke it off with their mates' while telling female colleagues, "never mind feminism and hairy arsed lesbians, come and have a drink with your mates".
And of a male colleague that, "Your twisted, your a pervert, and you'll make a bloody good policeman" while the Macho man can claim that, "I'm a man I don't need to rape, I get plenty of offers".
Rape as an issue gives old school coppers like DS Beck, an excuse to take out his frustrations against what, they regard as the usual suspects as, "they are all known perverts so you can have a go and no one will care".
The same justification that a husband whose wife has been raped, may use to excuse him from venting his spleen, against a suspect that the police had to release through his innocence.
While through it all the actual rapist cruises the city streets, eagerly searching for his next victim, except that in his manic psyche is it really rape that he is after, or is he really just a better lover, more of a real mans man than her other half?