This episode begins with a murder. A accountant and his wife come home after an evening out. When they come in the door, they find their teenaged daughter bound to a chair, her mouth covered with duct tape. The father is summarily taken outside and a few moments later a gunshot is heard. ThWhen Banks and his team investigate, the man's head has been blown off and the scene is utterly grisly. The investigation in the first half of the episode reveals a boring man and his boring wife. He has been financially successful. His wife incredibly cold. But as things go one, we find that there is a concert cellist that he has been seeing. She liked him because of his unpredictability, but has since said goodbye because she realizes there is no future. Banks likes this lady. Things take an interesting turn as the first half closes.
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Parts 1 and 2 of "Dry Bones That Dream"
safenoe29 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Here DCI Banks and his team (sans DS Cabbot, who is on maternity leave) attempt to solve the brutal murder of "unassuming accountant" Keith Rothwell (Dominic Mafham) after he and his wife returned home from a wedding anniversary with his status conscious wife. They return home to find their daughter bound and gagged, and then the murderer blows his head off in the garage.
Or does he?
Here DI Helen Morton (Caroline Catz of Doc Martin fame) attempts to be part of the team, and DCI offers helpful tips such as referring to colleagues as nicknames, joining them at the pub (DI Morton eschews pubs), buying them coffee, joking at the expense of colleagues, etc. DI Morton tries them, but with limited success. Also Morton referring to Banks as Banksy really offended Banks for some reason, even though his good friend refers to him as Banksy.
DI Banksy (I mean Banks) also strikes up a romance with someone who knew the victim, and he wonders whether to follow up the romance.
Or does he?
Here DI Helen Morton (Caroline Catz of Doc Martin fame) attempts to be part of the team, and DCI offers helpful tips such as referring to colleagues as nicknames, joining them at the pub (DI Morton eschews pubs), buying them coffee, joking at the expense of colleagues, etc. DI Morton tries them, but with limited success. Also Morton referring to Banks as Banksy really offended Banks for some reason, even though his good friend refers to him as Banksy.
DI Banksy (I mean Banks) also strikes up a romance with someone who knew the victim, and he wonders whether to follow up the romance.
Dry Bones That Dream: Part 1
Prismark1024 May 2021
The story opens with a grisly murder of an accountant after he returns home with his wife after an anniversary dinner.
His head is blown off and his family are in no mood with the quips made by DI Helen Morton.
DCI Banks finds out that Keith Rothwell was a boring unassuming man who was tight with money. His family also disliked him but somehow he was financially well off.
Maybe this was a contract killing and Rothwell was involved in some dodgy business dealings. He is linked to a politician and also a double life with another woman, a musician.
A sinister man seems to be taking an interest in Banks investigations.
The fact that the head was blown off points to an important clue. The double life of an accountant who spent time with another woman also indicates that Rothwell was unhappy with his home life.
The second series also continues with the clumsy attempts by Morton to get on with her new colleagues. It gets in the way of the story. The sinister man played by Francis Magee was too cliched.
His head is blown off and his family are in no mood with the quips made by DI Helen Morton.
DCI Banks finds out that Keith Rothwell was a boring unassuming man who was tight with money. His family also disliked him but somehow he was financially well off.
Maybe this was a contract killing and Rothwell was involved in some dodgy business dealings. He is linked to a politician and also a double life with another woman, a musician.
A sinister man seems to be taking an interest in Banks investigations.
The fact that the head was blown off points to an important clue. The double life of an accountant who spent time with another woman also indicates that Rothwell was unhappy with his home life.
The second series also continues with the clumsy attempts by Morton to get on with her new colleagues. It gets in the way of the story. The sinister man played by Francis Magee was too cliched.
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