This is about a family that raises thoroughbred racing horses (actually, jumpers). One day, the wife is kidnapped and held hostage in a cellar, chained to a wall. The is in over his head financially and demands the police pay a huge ransom. There are the usual peripheral characters, some of them quite suspicious, creating red herrings.
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The Trojan Horse
Prismark101 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Wycliffe enters the world of horse racing and the dirty goings on within it.
Alison Keir has disappeared and a ransom note is sent to her husband Alex Keir.
Alex has thoroughbreds and involved in horse racing. He is also a suspect especially as he might financially benefit from his wife's death.
Later Alison Keir turns up dead. It is not yet clear if she died in a car crash or she was deliberately intoxicated.
The title of the episode is very much an important clue. It really is the sins of the past revisiting the victim and someone has played a very long game.
It does seem a little far fetched. Especially the various components involved in Alison Keir's death.
The director seemed to be too interested on the shots of the horses and music that was rather similar to the theme of Black Beauty.
Alison Keir has disappeared and a ransom note is sent to her husband Alex Keir.
Alex has thoroughbreds and involved in horse racing. He is also a suspect especially as he might financially benefit from his wife's death.
Later Alison Keir turns up dead. It is not yet clear if she died in a car crash or she was deliberately intoxicated.
The title of the episode is very much an important clue. It really is the sins of the past revisiting the victim and someone has played a very long game.
It does seem a little far fetched. Especially the various components involved in Alison Keir's death.
The director seemed to be too interested on the shots of the horses and music that was rather similar to the theme of Black Beauty.
Horse farm and riders, who did it?
ctyankee110 December 2014
This was about horse farm owners and his wife who own a horse farm and also have racing horses.
The wife gets kidnapped, and kept as a prisoner in a basement and a letter is sent to husband to get ransom money for her safe return.
The husband begs the cops to put up the money he does not have. Soon after a car is crashed and a dead woman is in it. The woman is the horse farm owners wife.
The things Wycliffe and the cops do to get to the bottom of any mystery in the series is great. I have a lot of these videos and our police should use the same investigative techniques
These BBC mysteries are great but they all seem anti-Christian. In one episode a pastor wants to shake Wycliffe hand and her refuses. He also make comment about how religion is bad.
So even though I enjoy these episodes I find that the writers give the killers a lot of sympathy and let them tell their story as to why they killed. Boo whooo.
It is like watching Dr Phil. He exposes all the bad things in a family, child abuse, drug use, stealing and more and then ends the show with "were going to get you some counseling. Such bull!
So mysteries are good and so is the suspense but endings are not what I expect criminals should get.
The wife gets kidnapped, and kept as a prisoner in a basement and a letter is sent to husband to get ransom money for her safe return.
The husband begs the cops to put up the money he does not have. Soon after a car is crashed and a dead woman is in it. The woman is the horse farm owners wife.
The things Wycliffe and the cops do to get to the bottom of any mystery in the series is great. I have a lot of these videos and our police should use the same investigative techniques
These BBC mysteries are great but they all seem anti-Christian. In one episode a pastor wants to shake Wycliffe hand and her refuses. He also make comment about how religion is bad.
So even though I enjoy these episodes I find that the writers give the killers a lot of sympathy and let them tell their story as to why they killed. Boo whooo.
It is like watching Dr Phil. He exposes all the bad things in a family, child abuse, drug use, stealing and more and then ends the show with "were going to get you some counseling. Such bull!
So mysteries are good and so is the suspense but endings are not what I expect criminals should get.
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