This slightly mad addition to an overpopulated detective genre is more enjoyable than most of its dull peers
, he had suffered a complete mental collapse. The trauma of childhood abuse had resurfaced with a vengeance while interrogating the paedophile serial killer played bySeries two of the crime drama found Lennox returning to work. He assured his boss, Bob Toal , and his therapist, Sally Hart , that he was absolutely fine and raring to get back to policing. Neither seemed convinced, and those of us familiar with the almost laughably overwrought Lennox will have shared their scepticism.
Scott’s volcanic performance was the most compelling reason to have watched that earlier series. Fans of Welsh’s more acerbic works may have been disappointed by this mostly rather more restrained police procedural, but enough of the author’s voice poked through the more conventional cop show narrative.
The episode began with a corpse dressed in a naval uniform hanging from the staircase in a grand-looking house. We then fast-forward 10 years to a gruesome murder in an Edinburgh hotel room. Also presumably connected to these two deaths was a third storyline involving a former police colleague of Lennox’s, a woman called Lauren . Her girlfriend had gone missing and Lauren – who was transgender – had been attacked while looking for her.
But back to the central mystery – or rather not, because the team were unable to investigate the hotel murder. A cartoonishly arrogant Home Office type turned up to warn them off, causing Lennox to darkly brand it an “establishment cover-up” before going into full social warrior mode. In an increasingly hallucinogenic climax to the hour, he broke into Hearts football stadium and sprinkled his father’s ashes on the pitch, calling his footie-obsessed dad a victim of “the self-serving cockroaches inhabiting our society… those locusts who have to consume everyone in their path”. Yup, the old Ray was back. It hadn’t taken long.as Ian Rankin’s titular detective, has already proved far subtler at weaving social issues into the fabric of a police procedural.
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