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We've seen Andy Dalziel as the loud, brash, burly buffoon. Here we see another side to him, as a secret from his past comes out.

Dennis Waterman gives a blinder of a performance as the loud-mouthed bully Frank Moon, quickly roused to anger, very hurt when his wife Stella, in an unguarded moment, hints that he might not be the father of his son. RIght from when he accidentally shoots the village bobby, the die is cast and there's no going back for him.

The climactic scene where Frank lines up Andy, Patrick and Kieron, and accuses each of them of sleeping with his wife, is hard to fault. Patrick admits that he has "slept" with Stella many times - in his dreams - but she won't have him. Kieron just sees her as a friend - he's never slept with anyone and doesn't know what to say to women. And then Frank comes to Andy... and he and Stella admit that they've been having an affair for years, longer than she's known Frank, because she was lonely and miserable. There's only one way all this is going to end...

DCC Raymond doesn't come out of it well. He has the chance to order the marksmen to kill Frank... and he fumbles it and lose his chance (just like Frank Haskins did in episode "Thou Shalt Not Kill" of The Sweeney - a Dennis Waterman connection!). And he hesitates, like a rabbit frozen in the headlights, when Wield and Sillitoe are waiting for him to give the order to storm the pub. He refuses to taek advice from Sillitoe and Novello. He wants to be a hero - but he just can't hack it. I never did like him!

But I didn't see the ending coming...