
A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose and as yet more horrific murders take place the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax this 1994 pilot movie introduced the charismatic dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc - The Life and Times of David Lloyd George) - a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Also starring Hywel Bennett (Shelley) as Doctor Lewis the feature-length drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004 (also available from Network DVD).
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