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New Scotland Yard: Perfect in Every Way (1.9, LWT, 1972)

"You come here and you tell me my... dear man is dead. Your friend is dead, a good man - a good man, that's what they always tell me - you come here and you say he's dead, and, and 'Who did it? Oh, we must find out who did it, we're all good policemen!'... You're ruthless. Like he was."

"You don't mean that."

"Oh, he was a good man, wasn't he? Well, that's just what he wasn't. He was never allowed to be, he was a policeman! A perfect officer of the law, morning, afternoon, evening and night. Sometimes he wouldn't speak to me for weeks, we - we lived a terrible, terrible life."

#new scotland yard #perfect in every way #1972 #classic tv #lwt #paul annett #stuart douglass #john woodvine #john carlisle #barry warren #claire warren #crispin gillbard #sally home #patricia lawrence #anthony bailey #sara clee #ivan beavis #dennis chinnery #margaret anderson #brian grellis #colin rix #keith anderson #an uneven but intermittently very strong episode. the murder of a retired colleague (and in particular the angry outburst of his widow)#causes Woodvine to reevaluate his homelife; for the first time we meet Mrs Kingdom‚ the wife he's evidently been separated from for some #time. those scenes and the scenes involving the widow are very good‚ dense intelligent scripting. Carlisle continues to be an odd fish #his character is just so... unlikeable frankly. he's deeply sarcastic and outright hostile to Kingdom here‚ and whilst Woodvine has been #allowed over the series to gradually breathe some humanity into his lead‚ Carlisle's character remains a cold‚ hard bastard #the final act lets this down just a little‚ an overly on the nose and vaguely patronising examination of a disturbed mind which ends with #Kingdom sermonizing on how 'killing is never clever' and sounding weirdly like a high school assembly. but elsewhere this is smartly #written and unafraid of interrogating the often ugly nature of a police officer's private life

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