Father Michael Gow is hearing confession when he is told about a murder that is yet to happen. The following morning Ryan Petrie, a student, is found in a lane with a stab wound to the kidney. A large quantity of drugs on the body suggests he was supplying.
DS Jackie Reid has become withdrawn from the team as she attends the hospice where her ex husband is dying of cancer. She is grief stricken and feeling guilty that she left him to pursue her own career.
Fiona Marshall is found stabbed in her office with the same M.O. as the first victim. Her mother reports that someone has been watching the house. When police investigate they find the symbols XXXXIV carved in the tree. The same markings are present at the first two murders.
As Burke struggles to find a connection between the victims Jacki tries to find solace in the church. While interviewing the Monsignor she discovers the symbols represent a passage in the Bible. It is a quote from ¨The Good Samaratin.¨ - And they passed by on the other side.
The team soon learns that all the victims were present when a young girl, Angela Robertson, was stabbed two years previous on Hogmanay. Her boyfriend, Martin Kierney, is the first victimś flatmate. This news does not come in time to save Stephen Imrie, a painter, from being murdered and his lifeś work destroyed.
This is a very good episode of Taggart. Blythe Duff shines as the grief stricken ex wife. However, my only complaint is that the episode follows a well worn path that we have seen too many times before. A series of murders have a common link to a past crime where a survivor is exacting his revenge of people he believes have injured him. In this case it is the witnesses who did nothing to help a dying girl.
DS Jackie Reid has become withdrawn from the team as she attends the hospice where her ex husband is dying of cancer. She is grief stricken and feeling guilty that she left him to pursue her own career.
Fiona Marshall is found stabbed in her office with the same M.O. as the first victim. Her mother reports that someone has been watching the house. When police investigate they find the symbols XXXXIV carved in the tree. The same markings are present at the first two murders.
As Burke struggles to find a connection between the victims Jacki tries to find solace in the church. While interviewing the Monsignor she discovers the symbols represent a passage in the Bible. It is a quote from ¨The Good Samaratin.¨ - And they passed by on the other side.
The team soon learns that all the victims were present when a young girl, Angela Robertson, was stabbed two years previous on Hogmanay. Her boyfriend, Martin Kierney, is the first victimś flatmate. This news does not come in time to save Stephen Imrie, a painter, from being murdered and his lifeś work destroyed.
This is a very good episode of Taggart. Blythe Duff shines as the grief stricken ex wife. However, my only complaint is that the episode follows a well worn path that we have seen too many times before. A series of murders have a common link to a past crime where a survivor is exacting his revenge of people he believes have injured him. In this case it is the witnesses who did nothing to help a dying girl.