Rating - 7.5/10 Way More than an average Thriller, missed by decimals of being a great one.
Definitely recommended for lovers of high mystery and thrillers. We can only hope that this 2010 series has more parts to it and that those episodes will reach our shores and TV screens. Written by Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble and directed with panache by Benjamin Ross, the large cast includes some very fine actors - David Morrissey is at the top of the list - that includes Eddie Marsan, Sandra Oh, Lily Loveless, Neil Kelly among others.
And it is this kind of complex story-weaving that makes this a very tense and enjoyable series. In leaving Alison alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake. She can see, hear and feel, she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is unable to move or communicate. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. Alison Willetts (Sara Lloyd-Gregory ) is unlucky to be alive. 'Thorne' is DI Tom Thorne (David Morrissey) who in the Sleepyhead episode enters an investigation into a mysterious serial killer. It is a high tension thriller of a series. When Thorne, helped by the neurologist looking after Alison, starts to realise what he is up against he knows the case is not going to be solved by normal methods - before he can find out who did it he has to understand why he's doing it.Now and then during channel surfing late at night there appears something new and unknown that results in making the viewer wish for more.
But it was the others who were his mistakes: he doesn't want to take life, he just wants to put people into a state where they cannot move, cannot talk, cannot do anything but think. Tom Thorne believes the murderer has made a mistake, which ought to allow them to get on his tracks. The police aren't making much progress in their hunt for the killer until he appears to make a mistake: Alison Willetts is found alive and D.I. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to murder. It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic.
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