Pietà: Part 2 

The team discovers that even though the war crimes occurred a decade earlier the deaths they're investigating are intertwined with s current drug deal.

Director:

Philippa Langdale

Writers:

Declan Croghan, Barbara Machin (creator)

Stars:

Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Trevor Eve	...	Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd
Sue Johnston	...	Dr. Grace Foley
Tara Fitzgerald	...	Dr. Eve Lockhart
Wil Johnson	...	DI Spencer Jordan
Félicité Du Jeu	...	DC Stella Goodman
Sean Harris	...	Radovan Sredinic
Jacek Koman	...	Jovan Petropecic
Anna Madeley	...	Anna Vaspovic
Emil Hostina	...	Josif Gorvodic
Anatole Taubman	...	Stevan Steznovic
Ron Cook	...	Dr. Milan Vaspovic
Branka Katic	...	Jasni Vaspovic
Steve Hansell	...	Morgue Attendant
George Rainsford	...	Luke Boyd
Vladimir Tikhomirov	...	Pera Vaspovic (as Vladimir Bruce-Tikhomirov)

Storyline

Boyd finds that Veronica's co-worker who aided her flight is Jovan Petropecic, a friend of the family in the war - who got her to England - but is now using a dead Liverpudlian's passport. Boyd also pulls in a Bosnian café owner, Radovan Skedinic, whose phone number Veronica had and who was the broker in the Serbs' drug deals. Dr. Vaspovic agrees that he lost touch with his wife and son in the war, assuming they were murdered, which Eve confirms. Veronica - real name Anna - tells her Serb accomplices she has joined their gang because she believes it will lead her to the double agent who killed her mother and brother, whom she is convinced is Radovan. Boyd saves her from their kidnap attempt and she and her father watch as two unlikely conspirators are exposed. Boyd then sees his son's corpse and shows unusual emotion.

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Plot Keywords:

war criminal | criminal | flashback | detective constable | forensics | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Did You Know?

Quotes

Radovan Sredinic: You left an economic shithole as a fefugee and ten years lateryou own a cafe in London. I think that'd pretty good going.
Radovan Sredinic: I work very hard... I prosprt.

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Crazy Credits

Disclaimer: "A recent episode of Waking the Dead: Duty and Honour: Part 1 (2008) included a character called John Garret, a former army officer working in the security industry for a company called APX Solutions. The BBC would like to make it clear that John Garret and APX Solutions were entirely fictional and were not intended to bear any similarity to Jonathan Garratt of Erinys International, to who we apologise for the embarrassment caused."

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Connections

References First Blood (1982)

User Reviews

A claustrophobic set of interrogations get to the truth

Boyd, front and centre but with excellent, knowledgeable, support from his team, digs through the layers of deceit and misdirection.

Records from the former republic of Yugoslavia provide the backdrop to a 1995 war crime in the Bosnian-Serb-Muslim war in that region. The evidence is slowly gathered, via a few misdirections, unmasking a pair of war criminals ripe for a one-way ticket to the IWT at The Hague.

Not the best ever, but a useful reminder that "nothing disappears for ever".

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 May 2008 (UK)

Company Credits

Production Co:

BBC Drama Group, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

58 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9