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While I welcome this development, and John Simm’s gentle-voiced, light-touch acting as Det Supt Roy Grace is consistently the best thing about this series, it was a very unlikely plot. Despite the efforts of Robert Glenister, as a man haunted by witnessing as a child 60 years ago his father dragged out of their home by violent men, to inject some energy into proceedings, the shonkiness of the dialogue often defeated him.
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Simm is fine but not given a lot to do beyond the usual police business and being anguished by the disappearance of his wife, Sandy (who continues to haunt Brighton, now clutching the results of a mysterious paternity test). Grace at least has a new love interest, Cleo, the forensics bod played by Zoe Tapper, while his sidekick, DS Glenn Branson (Richie Campbell), has seemingly resolved his marital difficulties. But it’s hard to care.