"Waking the Dead" Solidarity: Part 1 (TV Episode 2011) Poster

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7/10
Pretty heavy, but good.
Sleepin_Dragon2 April 2021
The body of Piers Kennedy, a Falklands soldier turned pacifist is found in the sewers underneath Westminster, Boyd is warned that this discovery has political implications.

I have been blown away by the first two stories in this final series, I don't have that same feeling here with this episode, but I did still enjoy it.

I would say this one is heavy, it's very much a political thriller, with a more heavy storyline, and some niggle between the team, generally aimed at Grace.

I enjoyed the focus on Grace, and her past, we have seen her in her youth before, this was a good exploration, and I buy that she would have been a pacifist, that was in keeping with her character.

What a cast, Frances Tomelty, Penny Downie, Jack Shepherd, John Shrapnel, that's an impressive lineup in anyone's book.

Not a personal favourite, but it's good, 7/10.
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10/10
One of the best episodes
jéwé10 September 2022
Revisiting this series in 2022 I had truly forgotten about this one. It has everything: a great cast, tight direction (the scenes from the past work very well) a brilliant script (those Boyd lines always make me smile) and what seems like a "False Flag" episode at first is actually much more than that. Great teamwork. Why doesn't this count as a perfect 10? Stating it is great stuff and scoring it 7/10 is weird. The series lost a bit of momentum after the Claire Goose years, despite Tara's entry. But season 8 and 9, which I only saw once before, are top notch. Trevor Eve is one of the best actors around.
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