So I was kind of right about
the roots of the Knight and Bishop feud; still on the fence about the missing
girl theory; as the furnace in this episode could just be a red herring.
So we’ve gone full on legal
drama, with the main focus of this episode being Knight and Bishop dealing with
their personal problems intersecting with the trial. Through this, we get some
insight into their joint back story; with Bishop’s bitterness over Knight
refusing to defend her son. Bishop completely drops her professional façade,
when she finds out about her son being assaulted in prison. This is something
she holds Knight responsible for, though Knight seems to be of the opinion that
that case wasn’t worth defending. “A man died because of your son” - this is a very effective piece of character
development for both and finally shows Bishop reacting as a parent rather than
a lawyer.
Bishop isn’t really shown in
the best light however as her actions in the trial are now less for the benefit
of her client and more for the sake of humiliating Knight. While effort is made
to show Knight’s lack of empathy with parents, it’s Bishop who comes out worse
off in terms of audience reaction (from me at least). While Knight is taking pot shots at Bishop
it’s not really over anything personal. Bishop (or rather her junior) makes an
amateur mistake in calling an unreliable witness during their defence. This is
the source of Knight’s mockery, while Bishop’s motivation is both personal and
unprofessional. Bishop seems to be projecting her own screw-ups and her son’s
peril onto Knight.
In the B story, the suspects
for the Sandbrook murders are stacking up. It seems like the neighbours may
have been involved in some sort of wife swap situation…erm ok…
Other than that, the big
development is Miller and Hardy finding what could be the place where the
missing body from the Sandbrook could have been burnt. Other than that
everything else in this episode didn’t really interest me. Bishop trying to
coerce Paul into being a character witness. She doesn’t seem to be aware that
he’s not Rory any more so won’t be so much of a push over.
This episode is alright - the legal drama is taking over, which I can
see being a problem for some people. The problem is that everything else
happening (with the exception the Sandbrook investyigation) doesn’t seem to be
very interesting.
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