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....because Det. Walker portrayed by David Hayman makes you want him to fail completely to solve any case whatsoever. Honestly, if a 'boss' treated his subordinates with such callous disrespect you'd cheer if one of them resorted to smacking him in the face! There is nothing to like about the leading investigator in this series. Which makes it even more implausible why D.I. Pat North has become romantically linked with this cretin and in this opening episode has actually made him her live-in lover. As if this opening to Series III doesn't contain enough rat-bags and over-the-top shysters. Richard E.Grant a man with bipolar disease is for the most part genuinely nasty, except to D.I. North whose initial response to Grant's irrational behaviour almost beggars belief. And then there is the witness to a sighting of a missing teenage girl whose very appearance conjures up characters from a Monty Python series. When will scriptwriters in particular realise that not everybody who walks this earth is a humourless ratbag, a brainless idiot, a crass and obnoxious git, etc. It is so obviously true that an entire series without somebody with whom the viewers can empathise or just like a little lacks great merit or appeal. I'm pretty sure Lynda La Plante's novels were not as bleak as this TV series...hard to think that she acted as producer?! Don't know whether I'll make it to Part Two!