Trial & Retribution I - Part One

A little girl goes missing from a play area outside of her home, a huge search is mounted for her, there is no shortage of potential suspects.

It's a very good first episode, it's intensely bleak, and a story that will definitely be upsetting and uncomfortable for many, some of the content is pretty harrowing. For me, the show got better as it went on, but this first one sets the scene, and gives you an idea of what's to come.

It holds up well, I am revisiting this 24 years on, and it doesn't look dated, the story is perhaps darker than you'd get now, the only thing that looks old fashioned, the split camera scenes, the show was one of the first I can remember to do it.

The best scene has to be the entrance of Walker, the acting here in general is phenomenal, however the first time we see David Hayman, you are instantly aware of his huge charisma.

Rhys Ifsns is incredible, what a career he would have after this.

Bleak, gritty, and sadly realistic, 8/10.