BBC1 ................... TONIGHT...............MESSIAH 4......{IMHO this is usually DB}

[RTKangaMummy]

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BBC1

9.30pm

SUNDAY 28 AUGUST

Drama

Messiah 4

9:30pm - 10:30pm

BBC1 London & South East

VIDEO Plus+: 10374
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described

Episode written by Terry Cafolla

The Harrowing

Ken Stott returns as the beetle-browed Detective Chief Inspector Red Metcalfe in this three-part serial-killer drama (concluding Tuesday). It's hardly sunny summer TV fare: a young woman is found locked in a van on a landfill site. In there with her are 40,000 bees that have stung her to death. Scrawled in blood on the inside of the windscreen are the words "SAVE ME". The body count rises as the killer gets more inventive, while Red and his team are perplexed in their bid to find a link between the victims. Though classier than most productions involving the torture and sadistic murder of women, much of this is still pretty revolting. But you might
find yourself compelled, thanks to Stott's charismatic presence.

Alison Graham

DCI Red Metcalfe - Ken Stott

Duncan Warren - Neil Dudgeon

Rachel Price - Helen McCrory

Vickie Clarke - Maxine Peake

Jack Price - Hugo Speer

Richard Eccleshall - Adam Kotz

Grace Eccleshall - Beatie Edney

Evelyn McArdle - Margot Leicester

Henry McArdle - Eamon Boland

Harry Fullerton - Bill Thomas

Tim Evans - Guy Flanagan

Coroner - Gil Brailey

Daniel Price - Mat Ruttle

Isabel Price - Alice Bird

Jacqueline Price - Imogen Byron

Professor Robb - Harriet Walter

Professor Uhomi - Kay Purcell

Billy Edwards - Keir Mills

Emma Giardello - Kika Markham

Franco Giardello - Ian Midlane

Mrs Giardello - June Barrie

Steph Baker - Helen Modern

Father James - Andrew McCulloch

Simon Emerson - Robert Hickson

Paula Scott - Jocelyn Barker

Tamzin Green - Laura Wilson

Nancy Roberts - Kate Lynn Evans

Sara Knightley - Charlie Covell

Forensic officer - Harry Williams

Nurse - Serena Harris

Officer - Amarjit Bassan

Foreman - Harry Miller

Solicitor - Aaron Neil

SOC officer - Derek Ezenagu

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I don't get it, whose book was it?

It was Isobel's book - the girl who committed suicide.

Her mother found it afterwards in her bedroom - so knew she had committed suicide, but was somehow inspired by the narrative of Dante's Inferno to somehow bring her daughter back. I think she thought that that was what her daughter had been asking for.

thanks but why was she so screwed up, I gather she had had an affair with the first victim but why the next few was it to try and bring her daughter back? Save her soul?

I think she thought she was going to save Izzy soul by following what the book had said

but IMHO a weird ending

I agree with RTKangamummy: she thought that it would bring her daughter back - or at least her soul, by following what the book said. Apparently in the book, Virgil(?) does save one soul. That's why she was agitating on the top of the roof at the end that "she should be here".