This is my least favorite episode of the entire series thus far.
There are so many things annoying about this episode.
Definite Spoilers
Once the detectives have concluded that it was murder, not suicide, that led to the death of an inmate in her locked cell, there is no surprise who the prime suspect has to be, if not as the actual killer, than surely as an accomplice.
While I am not a lawyer, nor do I live in New Zealand--as another reviewer here complains--the proposition that a prisoner can negotiate an early release by withholding physical evidence of a crime makes no sense at all. The best a prisoner should be able to hope for, is that by turning over the evidence, she might get a reduction of time.
The way that the detectives, particularly Mike Shepherd--and the show--treat the pathologist, Gina Kadinsky (Cristina Ionda) in this episode borders on the needlessly cruel. That a main character, well into his 40s doesn't know how to handle unwanted attention or infatuation is nonsensical.
The warden of the prison was interesting in the beginning, but became too much of a caricature (although I did get a kick out of one of the inmates calling her a "New Age warden")
Finally--and maybe this reflects my own impatience more than anything else. But the introduction of the three previous killers as the suspected inmates felt more like a "greatest hits" than anything original. Rayleen Hogg (Yvette Parsons) is just plain wacko. Brenda White (Amanda Billing) is creepy. And Trudy Neilson (Tracy Lee Gray) is the same "snake in the grass" that she was on the outside. Again, no real surprises here in how they acted.
The banter between the detectives and some of the suspects is still worthy of smiles. But for me, there was too much that was either predictable or implausible for this to be a good episode.
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