I usually enjoy dramas set in and around my home city of Glasgow but have to admit I found this crime drama really tough going. Kevin McKidd and Vinette Robinson are a married couple with a difficult teenage daughter who's gone missing. Both are cops and both have a past as we see hers take her to London to ask of the girl's real father, a consumptive gangster, if he can help her locate their daughter. He, we also soon learn, has had a fling with a female reporter who now wants to tap him as an inside source on the breaking story of the kidnapping of a prominent SNP minister's daughter.
But all isn't what it seems as the kidnapping has links to the death of another young girl years before, the daughter of another then-senior SNP party figure with connections of his own to the minister. And just who or what is the mysteriously codenamed "Six-Four" figure who also seems to feature in the intrigue?
What follows is in truth a rather turgid traipse across Scotland as the slow-moving action reveals political betrayals, a police cover-up, a fraternal bust-up and a revenge kidnapping as McKidd and his wife follow the trail of the missing girl whilst pursuing their own daughter's whereabouts and possibly even rekindling their own foundering relationship.
I just found this four-part series to be exceedingly dull and contrived as we're ultimately expected to believe there was some kind of establishment political motive in planting a mole in the Scottish Government with an anti-Independence agenda.
It just never seemed real to me at any stage as it plodded along from one tenuous plot point to the next, not helped by unconvincing acting throughout the whole cast.
But all isn't what it seems as the kidnapping has links to the death of another young girl years before, the daughter of another then-senior SNP party figure with connections of his own to the minister. And just who or what is the mysteriously codenamed "Six-Four" figure who also seems to feature in the intrigue?
What follows is in truth a rather turgid traipse across Scotland as the slow-moving action reveals political betrayals, a police cover-up, a fraternal bust-up and a revenge kidnapping as McKidd and his wife follow the trail of the missing girl whilst pursuing their own daughter's whereabouts and possibly even rekindling their own foundering relationship.
I just found this four-part series to be exceedingly dull and contrived as we're ultimately expected to believe there was some kind of establishment political motive in planting a mole in the Scottish Government with an anti-Independence agenda.
It just never seemed real to me at any stage as it plodded along from one tenuous plot point to the next, not helped by unconvincing acting throughout the whole cast.