Screen One: Season 4, Episode 4Black and Blue (27 Sep. 1992)Director:David HaymanWriter:G.F. Newman |
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Title: Black and Blue (27 Sep 1992)
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Christopher John Hall | ... |
Maurice Knight
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| Linus Roache | ... |
DS Brian Tait
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| Martin Shaw | ... |
Chief Supt. Mike Barclay
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| Iain Glen | ... |
Cmdr. Powell
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| Ray Winstone | ... |
Charlie Brett-Smith
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Don Henderson | ... |
Daddy Brett-Smith
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| Rowena King | ... |
Roberta Ford
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Fraser James | ... |
Benny Soares
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Clive Wedderburn | ... |
Torrington Westcott
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| Roger Sewell | ... |
Donny Jessop
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| David Thewlis | ... |
Crematorium attendant
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Madhav Sharma | ... |
Magistrate
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| David Morrissey | ... |
DC Norman Mills
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Patrice Naiambana | ... |
DCI Booker
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Terry Sue Patt | ... |
Car Breaker
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27 September 1992 (UK) See more »Company Credits
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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"