Silent Witness (TV Series) Only the Lonely: Part 2 (1997) User Reviews

It's a decent story.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 9 December 2019]

Sam proves that the art of forensic science is not infallible, that problems can arise. Even the great Dr Ryan misses things.

I wasn't blown away by the first part, but this second installment was better, after a fairly slow start it concludes in dramatic fashion.

It lacks a bit of mystery and intrigue, but it's dramatic enough, some scenes are a little hard to believe, and at times you need to suspend your disbelief.

Jessica Lloyd is pretty good as Carolyn, she's perhaps the standout. The trouble here is that most of the characters are hard to like, it comes to something when Wyn is the most cheerful person.

Subtle Ending

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 9 February 2019]

While there is some violence in this series, Sam is a gentle, introspective character who balances her opinions and her views with great scrutiny. In this one, we are aware early on who the perpetrator is. It's a matter of looking for the reasons behind this person's actions. We are also let in on some really human people with human failings. It works very well. One can't be in this part of law enforcement without incurring some scars.

10 stars for the episode, 1 star for the closed captioning!

[emylye-139-320793 · 10/10 · 20 September 2023]

We are wondering if they're playing some kind of cruel joke on deaf people, given the literally atrocious transcription. Seriously, if you can't hear and one character refers to 'emails' out of the blue, wouldn't you be baffled? It should have been 'M. O.s'... which at least makes sense.

Then there are all the times they think the name Wyn is Sam saying 'when' or, the last travesty (and the one that made me write this), a police officer calling through the letter box in the door, 'do you like to sing?' (It was 'could you let us in'.)

We are just grateful we can hear and use the CCTV to supplement/compensate for the brogues of Sam and Wyn!! We would probably not know what this episode was about otherwise.