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The funeral of Gwendoline Huby takes place, and her will is in question, a man claiming to be her long lost son, and potential chief beneficiary arrives, but his identity is in doubt. Wieldy receives a visit from a young man, out to make trouble.

Child's Play is definitely one of the show's best episodes, very much at its peak during this third series, this one is intriguing, revealing, and superbly acted.

Plenty of humour, the scenes of Andy clashing with his new boss here hilarious. DCC Raymond truly is a dinosaur.

We finally learn exactly who Edgar, Wieldy really is, quite the underrated character on the show, he gets his biggest slice of the cake here. It just goes to show how attitudes have changed with time, only twenty or so years old, and the mindset surrounding a 'gay copper' another world.

Strong performances from Linda Marlowe, John Michie and Jack Medley, but it's another superb performance from Margaret Tyzack who steals it, what an actress she was.

9/10.

Oliver Reed once said his face looked like a garbage can. We can say of Warren Clarke that his face looks much like a battered old steel garbage can. His rugby playing days long over, Det. Supt. Andy Dalziel surveys the bleak Yorkshire landscape and the bleaker people inhabiting it with a jaundiced eye and biting sarcasm. He has to deal with a Bible-quoting superior officer who wants to weed out homosexuals on the police force; at the same time one of his men, who is gay, is going through emotional torments because of his infatuation with a delinquent youth. Dalziel has got to keep his team focused on a murder investigation, placate his superior, and stop any more murders in a very dysfunctional family.

This series has carried me through a dreary fall and early winter 2002. I must add that I haven't read any of the Reginald Hill novels on which this fine series is based.

This episode is endless scenes of softcore sex and then the boring pillow talk afterwards. First is the old man and his old cousin, for about fifteen minutes of wrinkled people squishing together and then talking about it. Then there are three or four scenes of the gay sergeant and the youth engaging in inter-racial gay sex and long conversations and arguments about gay pride. Then there is the young heir and her cousin having sex as the elderly woman they are supposed to be caring for is dying. The theme seems to be that lots of crime happens when people are having sex.

The Sergents's boyfriend is murdered, and the newspaper wants to know who the gay copper is. Everyone covers up to keep him from being pulled out of the closet. Not sure if that was supposed to mean that they supported him, or that they were afraid for the publicity against their police department? Most of this episode was about politically correct politics, and not enough about police work and solving crimes. Eventually everything ties together in a very incredibly unlikely way.