When Sarah finally interviews Lizzie, the explosive truth about what really happened on top of the tower emerges.When Sarah finally interviews Lizzie, the explosive truth about what really happened on top of the tower emerges.When Sarah finally interviews Lizzie, the explosive truth about what really happened on top of the tower emerges.
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Towering Internal
This three-part police procedural starts shockingly as we arrive with detectives Gemma Whelan and Jimmy Akingbowa on the scene of a double-fall from a London tower block which leaves two fatalities on the ground, one a seasoned and popular middle-aged police officer and the other a fifteen year-old Asian girl. Still on the roof are two witnesses to the tragedy, the young, Tahirah Sharif's female policewoman partner of the now-dead cop, who will become central to the polt and the other an innocent five-year-old boy, taken up there as a hostage by the young girl who also fell.
How this situation came about and then, how it plays out, comprises the narrative of this taut, if at times unrealistic-seeming drama as Whelan and Akingbowa get their teeth into the case in a storyline involving racism, perjury, misplaced loyalties, police politics and sex too as we see the young girl cop enter into an offair with her chief, Emmet J Scanlan. He then uses his position to manipulate her to protect the reputation (and widow's pension) of the dead policeman as well as covering up their illicit affair.
Although some plot-holes were evident, such as Sharif's character inexplicably having no family or friends to turn to when she goes on the run, or her just happening to simultaneously be a key witness in taking down a murderous drug-lord, all this and she's only six months on the force, there was a lot to like here. Firstly I did appreciate the untied loose-ends still remaining at the conclusion and secondly it was good to at least watch a cop show which didn't extensively go into the personal lives of the main characters.
Well acted by Whelan and Sharif in particular, I see it's already generated a second series involving most of the main characters in which I'll be interested to see how they're utilised and presumably involve a tower block again.
How this situation came about and then, how it plays out, comprises the narrative of this taut, if at times unrealistic-seeming drama as Whelan and Akingbowa get their teeth into the case in a storyline involving racism, perjury, misplaced loyalties, police politics and sex too as we see the young girl cop enter into an offair with her chief, Emmet J Scanlan. He then uses his position to manipulate her to protect the reputation (and widow's pension) of the dead policeman as well as covering up their illicit affair.
Although some plot-holes were evident, such as Sharif's character inexplicably having no family or friends to turn to when she goes on the run, or her just happening to simultaneously be a key witness in taking down a murderous drug-lord, all this and she's only six months on the force, there was a lot to like here. Firstly I did appreciate the untied loose-ends still remaining at the conclusion and secondly it was good to at least watch a cop show which didn't extensively go into the personal lives of the main characters.
Well acted by Whelan and Sharif in particular, I see it's already generated a second series involving most of the main characters in which I'll be interested to see how they're utilised and presumably involve a tower block again.
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- Lejink
- Sep 6, 2023
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