Case 1, Part 2

Episode aired Jun 2, 2016
TV-14TV-14
57min

8.1/10

S1.E2

Rash and Stefan follow-up on leads that take one to a funeral and the other to a swanky London hotel. Still unaware that they are investigating the same case they are drawn into a lethal con... Read allRash and Stefan follow-up on leads that take one to a funeral and the other to a swanky London hotel. Still unaware that they are investigating the same case they are drawn into a lethal conspiracy.Rash and Stefan follow-up on leads that take one to a funeral and the other to a swanky London hotel. Still unaware that they are investigating the same case they are drawn into a lethal conspiracy.

8.1/10

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Carolyn Pickles and Avena Wallace in New Blood (2016)

Kirsty Mitchell and Avena Wallace in New Blood (2016)

Mark Strepan and Ben Tavassoli in New Blood (2016)

Mark Addy and Ben Tavassoli in New Blood (2016)

As government drugs advisor Peter Mayhew is quizzed over his championing Remicon's production of anti-obesity drug Lipocite over the American firm Ruhn's cheaper version Rash finally convinces his superiors that Laura Jones' recent death was murder and they attend her funeral to locate the other Indian drugs volunteers. Ruhn CEO Coleman Blake also sends his employee, nervous Bruce Lockwood, another of the volunteers, to the funeral where he gives Rash the names of unstable Henry Williams and David Leese. Unaware that Mayhew has a spy in his department Stephan attends the Lipocite launch party, where he is drugged and ejected, being saved by Rash from being run over. When both Rash and Stephan turn up at Henry Williams' house they realize that they are involved in the same investigation. —don @ minifie-1

Trivia
Mark Addy (DS Derek Sands) & Aiysha Hart (Leila Sayyad) also worked together on Atlantis (2013) as Hercules & Ariadne respectively.

Alternate versions
For German TV-premiere broadcaster ZDF cut the first three episodes (around 55 minutes each) into one 120 minutes TV movie.

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5/10

New Blood 2

New Blood established itself as a swanky mismatched buddy law enforcement series. Although at the moment the two leads do not like each other and not yet realised that their cases are connected.

David Leese the executive at the pharmaceutical company where Stefan is working undercover is in some way connected to Rash's murder investigation. Stefan has been rumbled and surreptitiously drugged by a company rep at a party. He feels euphoric and weird and nearly gets run down by a bus until Rash saves him and who just also happen to be on the way to this party.

Stefan spends the night on Rash's sofa and both reveal a little about their jobs but not what they are investigating. Rash is also not too pleased that Stefan has taken a shine with his sister.

By the end of the episode when coincidentally they both come knocking on a suspect's house and have to give chase, they twig that they have more in common.

A polished episode, fast paced but for me it does not quiet fly. You can see these two spiky characters are going to become friends.

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