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G.F. Newman (writer)
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interestingly bleak portrayal of early 90s urban hell UK more (1 total)

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Christopher John Hall ... Maurice Knight

Linus Roache ... DS Brian Tait
Martin Shaw ... Chief Supt. Mike Barclay

Iain Glen ... Cmdr. Powell

Ray Winstone ... Charlie Brett-Smith
Don Henderson ... Daddy Brett-Smith

Rowena King ... Roberta Ford
Fraser James ... Benny Soares
Clive Wedderburn ... Torrington Westcott

Roger Sewell ... Donny Jessop

David Thewlis ... Crematorium attendant
Madhav Sharma ... Magistrate

David Morrissey ... DC Norman Mills
Patrice Naiambana ... DCI Booker
Terry Sue Patt ... Car Breaker
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interestingly bleak portrayal of early 90s urban hell UK, 23 January 2007
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Author: aryan_tea_company from Belarus

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Yes pretty powerful stuff, entertaining, but not very realistic. But some fine characters and pace, not boring for one second! A black PC from some county force gets sent undercover to London (the Met) to root out some corrupt and racist officers. things go from bad to worse as he digs deeper into the goings on in a super bleak council housing estate, and he encounters some really seedy and corrupt police officers.

A bit stereotyped in its portrayal of all Met officers as corrupt in one way or another, and very cynical view.

He finds that the local CID officer is implicated in murder and they are disposing of bodies in a local crematorium.

It ends with a full scale riot and he has to drive an ambulance through a mob to rescue the corrupt DC from the mob, and then he batters him in the locker room of the police station.

He gets the Queens Police Medal for his efforts and as a cynical final scene when he goes back to visit some black woman he has had an affair with on the estate, we see he has made it into a key ring, some little black boy says "that ain't worth ****" and he says "that ain't half the truth"

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