Another series which had it all going on. Problems, did anyone say problems. Robin (Holliday Grainger) finds out Matthew (Kerr Logan) was unfaithful to her with Sarah (Antonia Kinlay) of all people. After she receives a severed leg which is addressed to her, but obviously meant for Strike (Tom Burke). As she just stands there staring at it and bumping into furniture. It's a leg, at least not an ear or any other body part. Ears are more gruesome! The game's foot, er should I say that cos I really wanted to. They call the police but miss the note underneath which Strike recognizes the lyrics to Blue Oyster Cult's ?? Mistress of the Salmon Salt. After Robin says he turned white as he recalled the lyrics from when his mother was murdered by Jeff Whittaker (Matt King). They were tattooed on her.
As we opened with Strike heading to meet a potential client and Robin having dinner with Matthew and his friends, including the dreaded Sarah. A girl also ventures out and ends up in the same building as Strike after he already enters it. He makes a call as no client shows up. Strike recalls Niall Brockbank (Andrew Brook) whom he arrested after claims of sexual assault were made by his daughter, Brittany (Megan Parkinson) but she withdrew them as being falsely made up. Strike arrested him and he was about to hit him with a bottle so he punched him. Apparently he was suffering from a rugby injury to his head and suffered epileptic fits afterwards. But he knew he was guilty of assault, the army had no evidence to convict him.
Robin whimpers in her bed after suffering from nightmares and as she leaves Matthew she goes on a boozy binge, ain't it always the way. She doesn't turn up for work and is followed, as she follows a student for a case. Strike leaves messges for her and shows up at the pub just as she's about to be menaced by a stranger who doesn't take no for an answer. She tells Strike of how she was attacked after leaving a friend and her testimony put him away. That's when Matthew slept with Sarah, the "most annoying woman;" so if he cheated with someone else it would've been okay?!
They go looking for Brockbank and Strike wants to meet his sister Holly (Jessica Gunning) but Robins says she'll drive him to Barrow In Furness and then buys clothes to disguise herself as a personal injury lawyer, telling Holly she can get them money from the army for his injuries. She tells them he's in London. Before leaving for Barrow, Strike is taken in for questioning as the police find the missing girl, Kelsey (Fern Deacon) was seen at the same building on the CCTV where Strike was meant to meet the client.
Before heading back Strike finds out Douglas Laing is also here, another nasty piece of work he put away and may bare a grudge against him and he meets with his former girlfriend. He suffered from a condition and isn't here anymore. Though he beat up an old lady for pocket change and claimed to have raised money for charity, a measly £40 which they laugh over. Strike tells the detective about Laing too. When Strike spoke of Laing chaining his wife and she dislocated her shoulder attempting to free herself, reminded me of that scene from Gerald's Game that many people found so gory. You know that handcuff scene, if you've seen this Stephen King Netflix adaptation.
They meet with Strike again as they show him the dead Kelsey's photo and the newspaper photos showing them together, but he's never met her. Another frame up job a la Sherlock. And speak of the devil, Whittaker calls Strike "Sherlock f*8king Holmes" too. As Strike beats him up as he brags about his mother and how she would "do" him. Sorry if that sounds crude.
Robin finds out that Brockbank is in London and wants to meet him but he doesn't give her a home address and is very menacing and threatening towards her on the phone. Appears we're getting a lot of cases aimed at Strike and his other life during his stint in the army. As he's now targeted for the past and his past actions. But who's after Robin, is it the rapist she put away? As Strike loses clients from the negative press reports. In contrast to Sherlock whose popularity soared from press articles!
How could some reviews claim you struggled to keep up, heaven save us from such absurdity, cos yeah it was really difficult to follow, I say sarcastically of course!! The key appears to be Whitechapel, but is that just a red herring to throw us off the scent? Since it's an old haunt for Strike. Whitechapel obviously relating to Jack the Riper too and no coincidence that the main suspects in this are all women haters and physical abusers.
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