The Last Detective Thursday 03 May
9:00pm - 10:30pm
ITV1 London
1/5 - Once Upon a Time on the Westway
The Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey, fresh from a guest-starring role in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, stays closer to home playing a cockney villain in the latest story centred on Leslie Thomas's endearingly old-fashioned detective. Peter Davison returns as the ironically nicknamed "Dangerous" Davies, a gauche but well-meaning and dogged detective constable who always gets his man based on good, solid, slogging police work. Here he's on the trail of whoever murdered gangland kingpin Jimmy the Gent (Anthony Valentine), found shot dead in his swimming pool on the day of his release from prison. Jimmy the Gent was the last of a dying (literally) breed of London gangsters with their supposed code of honour and respect. But Davies digs beneath the surface to find misplaced loyalties, seething resentment and the dangerous romanticising of brutal, murderous men. It's not an adventure that will have you biting your nails, but The Last Detective is appealing in its own, downbeat kind of way.
RT reviewer - Alison Graham
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