The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan): Book 2

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I specially find the first 3 seasons entertaining. I rather like the female co-star better than the one on the last 3 seasons. I felt the was more chemistry. In spite of that though the intensity of the series and plot lines don't die down. If anything they it gets even better with each episode. D.C.I. Carol Jordan ( Hermione Norris) (Series 1–3) is a hardworking officer who forms a close relationship with Tony, successfully working with him to secure the arrest of several killers. In series two's "Right to Silence", Carol is promoted from Detective Inspector to Detective Chief Inspector. Although the two soon grow close, they never achieve the romantic relationship that Carol desires with Tony and in the end, Carol leaves Bradfield to take a position in South Africa. Speaking of Norris's portrayal of Carol Jordan, Val McDermid said that she "brings real intelligence and insight to her role, demonstrating that there's a lot more to her skills than we got to see in Cold Feet." [2]

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If that happened, he doubted his capacity to function. And if he couldn't function, he couldn't do his job. And that was too important to let go. What he did saved people's lives. He was good at it, probably one of the best there had ever been because he truly understood the dark side. To risk the work would be the most irresponsible thing he could ever do, especially now when the whole future of the newly created National Offender Profiling Task Force lay in his hands. Left Hanging: While the last episode ends on a somewhat fitting climax, namely: Tony killing his Arch-Enemy, Michael, in self-defense, a lot of tension is still unresolved since killing someone has been Tony's biggest fantasy, and the fact that he has fulfilled it would certainly have some severe consequences for him. It is very unlikely that we will ever know what these consequences would turn to be. Dr Tony Hill is head of a newly formed National Profiling Task Force. As a training exercise he gives his recruits a selection of missing persons cases to review. All are teenage girls but there seems to be no connection between them. One of the team, Shaz, marked out by Tony as the most promising of the police officers, comes up with a theory the group thinks is preposterous - but then one of the team is murdered and the hunt for the killer is on ....Only four episodes are based on McDermid's books: "The Mermaids Singing" and "Shadows Rising" from series one, "Torment" from series four, and "Falls the Shadow" from series six. The rest are original stories created for television.

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Starring Robson Green as the hapless yet brilliant Dr. Hill and Simone Lahbib as the supportive and patient Alex Fielding, Wire In The Blood remains one of ITV’s most popular series, with author Val McDermid nominated for the channel’s Writer’s Award for Classic TV Drama, alongside the likes of Colin Dexter, Ian Rankin and Lynda La Plante. Foil: The women in Tony's life tend to serve as both Greek chorus and conscience to him, as well as highlighting his darker flaws. His scenes with Carol and Alex, as well as Angelica, Maggie, Laura, and Kate, all serve to contrast him with them. And in the final episode of this suspense-filled series, when a convict blames his profiling for what Robson Green was terrific as Tony Hill, a very original character, one it's hard not to like, quirky, but sincere and smart. Alex and Tony investigate the murders of two young children, whose deaths bear signs of a ritual killing. Their investigation leads them to a laboratory where they find evidence of animal sacrifice and paintings in blood. As the investigation turns personal, Paula and Kevin find themselves under the influence of a curse, while Tony remains skeptical of the killer's ability.Adaptational Villainy: An interesting inversion... the show was an adaptation of Val McDermid's book series, with many changes along the way. Perhaps the biggest was the elimination of the Carol Jordan character when Hermione Norris decided to leave the show. She was replaced with Simone Lahib's Alex Fielding, who became the new heroine/ co-lead for the remainder of the TV series. However, after the TV series ended in 2008, McDermid introduced Alex Fielding into the books in 2013's Cross and Burn... this Alex Fielding looks and sounds like the TV version, but is a completely awful person, and a major antagonist in the book, even believing Tony is a killer and arresting him. In the towns and villages of East Yorkshire, there wasn't any shortage of crime. But it was all low-level stuff. Her inspectors and sergeants were more than capable of dealing with it, even in the small cities of Holm and Traskham and the North Sea port of Seaford where she was based. Her junior officers didn't want her running around on their tails. After all, what did a city girl like her know about sheep rustling? Or counterfeit cargo lading bills? Besides which, they all knew perfectly well that when the new DCI turned up on the job, she wasn't so much interested in finding out what was going down as she was in sussing out who was up to scratch and who was busking it, who might be on the sauce and who might be on the take. And they were right. It was taking longer than she'd anticipated, but she was gradually assembling a picture of what her team was like and who was capable of what. Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice: Angelica Bain, the killer in "The Mermaids Singing", is a pre-op MtF transperson, but everybody treats her like a gay man. However, her house is a nightmarish pink blur, she is a prostitute and erotic caller who lets her victims get Aroused by Their Voice, and she dresses up in fetish wear to torture and kill her victims. There's something to be said for being able to binge an entire show from episode one to final episode when cancelled. Not always do we get a "wrap up" episode and we didn't get one here either. It would have been nice but it was time to put an end to Dr. Tony Hill's sideline work so it would have benefitted from them giving us one.

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Room Full of Crazy: Towards the end of these movie-length episodes it is fairly common to unearth a Room Full of Crazy that synergizes in with the other horror elements and often redirects the team's attention towards a left-field suspect. It also usually implies someone known to the team is in great danger of being the next target. Trans Equals Gay: Angelica Bain, the killer in "The Mermaids Singing", is 'revealed' to be a gay man who wishes to change genders to have a straight relationship. Clinical Psychologist, Dr Tony Hill and Detective Inspector Carol Jordan are reunited for four more dark and disturbing cases in Series III, hunting brutal killers terrorising the northern town of Bradfield. An obsessive fascination with the fractured criminal mind, leads Dr Hill and D.I. Jordan on an intense and vivid journey into a dark world of faceless serial killers. It is a race against time as they try to anticipate the killer’s very next step, and identify the next possible victim, each case putting more pressure on their close relationship. Terrific chiller from Manchester’s answer to Thomas Harris. Val McDermid can do what the Americans do so effortlessly – get inside the mind of a serial killer. Thank God for Tony Hill and psychological profiling.

The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan): Book 2

The book [has] a sense of gravitas and intelligence utterly beyond lesser writers in the field This is a wholly satisfying read which cleverly subverts tradition and expectation. Having already awarded her previous Tony Hill novel a Gold Dagger, someone better be smelting the platinum. Truth in Television: All over the place when it comes to the crimes themselves, particularly the psychology and profiling of the serial killers, which is almost brutally accurate - sometimes even to Reality Is Unrealistic lengths. Val McDermid's The Wire in the Blood is "a superb psychological thriller" (Cosmopolitan), the basis for ITV's series of the same name.The first episode of the television series Wire in the Blood, The Mermaids Singing, was broadcast on 14 November 2002 and co-starred Hermione Norris as Carol Jordan. Norris remained until series 4. Thereafter, the lead detective working with Hill was D.I. Alex Fielding, an ambitious single mother played by Simone Lahbib. The phrase ‘the wire in the blood’ comes from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. – ‘The trilling wire in the blood ⁄ sings below inveterate scars ⁄ appeasing long-forgotten wars.’ In "Wire in the Blood" the stories and the crimes often unfold slowly, with just enough bits of clues and hints to make the slow development seem satisfying.