The excellent Anne-Marie Duff is starey ex-cop Claire Church in a brooding Western Isles tale of murdered sex-workers and bitter police with gloomy pastsSomewhere in Scotland,on a gloomy Western Isle, a lone woman runs. Chased or chasing? Neither, and it turns out. Shes training,for the Iron Woman. In Manchester, meanwhile, or in the rain (of course),a digger scrapes at the soil. “Whoa,” someone shouts. “Whoa whoa whoa.” The digger has unearthed something other than soil, and a piece of clothing hangs from one of the bucket’s teeth. In the ground,a shoe – red, heeled – and what look like bones.
How are the two connected, and the viewer of From Darkness (BBC1,Sunday) wants to know. The remains in the rain are of two sex workers, later three (yes, and more murdered prostitutes,I’m afraid). They disappeared from the streets of Manchester around 15 years ago.
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Source: theguardian.com