Another, and IMHO the best of the quartet of TV movies starring Dennis Waterman as former SAS man turned reluctant security agent, John Neil. Can't recall any comment about these at the time, and they've been curiously neglected ever since. Yet Dark Secrets is a cracking thriller, competently plotted with an abundance of twists and surprizes.
Neil has to make contact with Jim Caine (Sean McGinley) a former fellow soldier he fought alongside in the Falklands, now turned rogue and suspected of robbing deed boxes from a bank vault, the property of VIPs. Sure enough Caine is blackmailing Harry Summers (Corin Redgrave) a sinister and unscrupulous MP who indeed has plenty to hide. This leads to a series of murders with Neil's life constantly in danger - not least as his highly Machiavellian employers and the government have their own agenda regarding Summers.
Well played and gripping to the end.
Neil has to make contact with Jim Caine (Sean McGinley) a former fellow soldier he fought alongside in the Falklands, now turned rogue and suspected of robbing deed boxes from a bank vault, the property of VIPs. Sure enough Caine is blackmailing Harry Summers (Corin Redgrave) a sinister and unscrupulous MP who indeed has plenty to hide. This leads to a series of murders with Neil's life constantly in danger - not least as his highly Machiavellian employers and the government have their own agenda regarding Summers.
Well played and gripping to the end.