S9.E8

A Case of Coincidence: Part One

Episode aired Mar 22, 1996
TV-14
1h

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Keith Barron and Ronald Pickup in A Case of Coincidence: Part One (1996)

After four attractive women are found strangled in and around the local river, the free-spirited wife of a London doctor is killed while on an extramarital assignation.After four attractive women are found strangled in and around the local river, the free-spirited wife of a London doctor is killed while on an extramarital assignation.After four attractive women are found strangled in and around the local river, the free-spirited wife of a London doctor is killed while on an extramarital assignation.

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Caroline Bliss & Thomas Wheatley both appeared in James Bond film The Living Daylights starring Timothy Dalton

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[talking about Sarah Quin and Joseph who used to fancy her when they were teenagers]
Farmer: You knew she'd work someone up into a real passion one day. Joseph carried a *real* torch for her.
Inspector Masters: But not Eddie?
Farmer: No. He was just a simple lad. He wouldn't have harmed a fly. But Joseph: the only way that lad got through the winter was thinking about her coming down during the summer.
Inspector Masters: Did she like him?
Farmer: She liked both the lads, but she weren't about to get hitched up at sixteen year old.
Inspector Masters: Is Joseph still around?
Farmer: Went away. Made a bit of a fool of his-self over Sarah. Got ragged about it. Couldn't take it. Well it weren't Sarah's fault. What he couldn't understand was that her coming here was just *one* thing that happened in her life, but she was the *only* thing that happened in his.

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A Case of Coincidence: Part One

Keith Barron is Inspector Masters. Ronald Pickup is Chief Inspector Moore.

Set in the 1950s. Both policemen are looking for a break as four women have so far been found strangled in in the fenland of Cambridge.

They have kept watch on a local suspect for months.

When Sarah Quin is killed there is increased pressure on the police. She is the wife of a London doctor who was unaware that his wife was visiting the area.

There could be a breakthrough when a young man Edward Brannel is arrested. However he has learning difficulties and Masters has doubts.

This is a good period piece, just a murder mystery with two very good actors. Barron and Pickup.

As with the period of the time, Edward Brannel might invite the viewer's sympathy. He is below average intelligence and you sense that the police are going to pin the murders on him.

The latest victim Sarah Quin had some ulterior reasons to be away from her husband, maybe she was having an affair. Even Dr Quin invites doubts along with his friend Dr Lucas. She just wants to be too friendly with the newly widowed doctor.