This starts exactly like a horror movie . A man is writing in a dark study late at night .He hears a sound . Scared by this noise he enters the hallway and realises he's not alone . It wasn't entirely unknown for several episodes of THE SWENEY to open this way , though it's far from routine for the series
May isn't a routine episode for the series . When the man from the opening sequence ends up in hospital with a fractured skull , it's two different rozzers from the flying squad who arrest the suspect who might be the slag who did the blag along with flying squad lingo such as " okay chummy get you coat we want to speak to you down the station " only to have the slag run off down a street
The mother of this week's character guest starring in a role before they became relatively well known then contacts Jack Regan and we get to see if not the soft side of Jack Regan then a more human side
This isn't problematic for the episode it's just that not a lot happens . If you're the viewer who remembers THE SWEENEY as the cop show that saw Regan and Carter giving very naughty boys a good kicking as they ripped off a white security van then you might find this a bit too character driven talkative and slow
May isn't a routine episode for the series . When the man from the opening sequence ends up in hospital with a fractured skull , it's two different rozzers from the flying squad who arrest the suspect who might be the slag who did the blag along with flying squad lingo such as " okay chummy get you coat we want to speak to you down the station " only to have the slag run off down a street
The mother of this week's character guest starring in a role before they became relatively well known then contacts Jack Regan and we get to see if not the soft side of Jack Regan then a more human side
This isn't problematic for the episode it's just that not a lot happens . If you're the viewer who remembers THE SWEENEY as the cop show that saw Regan and Carter giving very naughty boys a good kicking as they ripped off a white security van then you might find this a bit too character driven talkative and slow