Blue Murder (TV Series) Crisis Management (2007) User Reviews

Accidental murder?

[gridoon2024 · 7/10 · 6 September 2011]

Just as she's having a nice conversation with a stranger she met at a bar, DCI Janine Lewis is called in to investigate the murder of a sergeant at a local army base. And guess who happens to be the commanding officer of that base: the very same stranger! As if that doesn't complicate matters enough, the murder is soon followed by another attack, so the base is locked down and Janine's team are forced to stay in - which they are not too happy about.

Yet another intricate episode of "Blue Murder", which does an excellent job of completely misdirecting the viewer about what really happened, and also benefits from a fresh (for this series) setting and typically fine acting in nearly every role, major or minor. *** out 4.

Police Force versus Armed Forces

[Dr_Coulardeau · 9/10 · 24 June 2008]

End of life crisis. The series is coming to a close. This last episode is supposed to go grandiose, to go eternal. So let's take the armed forces into the picture. That's spectacular with all the uniforms, with the barracks in ancient castles, with the discipline and the language, and of course with the conflict of interests and of methods between the good old police and the not so good but just as old armed forces. But don't expect anything transnational and patriotically ethical. Nothing but sordid family business, and Officer Lewis says it just right, most crime are family affairs. Maybe that's slightly limited as for profiling, but that is true if we are only dealing with isolated crimes. And the episode is there to prove it and prove it it does. Sordid. The worst part of it is that the armed forces of any country produce the two elements necessary for such a nasty crime. First the belief that anything that happens in the armed forces will remain there and the armed forces will do all they can to cover it up. And the second element is that those who are attached to the armed forces without being members of them, like the children and the spouses have a tendency to believe there is no one to help them when there is a problem in the armed forces since the armed forces are going to do all they can to cover it up, and they would never think of the police, of course, except of course the Military Police, which is no police at all.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines