#it has a strangely pointless downbeat ending (there's no real reason for that side of the plot to end so hopelessly and sadly)
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New Scotland Yard: Shadow of a Deadbeat (2.6, LWT, 1972)
"Anything wrong?"
"Anything wrong? She knows how to contact Eddie Moffett, you can bet your life on it!"
"I'm betting Lee Collins' life on it."
"She's gonna go to the nearest phone and she's gonna tell Eddie just where Collins is."
"That's right."
"It's too dangerous."
"Oh, it's been dangerous ever since Moffett pulled that trigger!"
#new scotland yard#shadow of a deadbeat#lwt#1972#don houghton#bryan izzard#john woodvine#john carlisle#richard mathews#john rees#alex marshall#paul grist#david webb#gil sutherland#john graham#kenneth gilbert#eric allan#terence mountain#barbara grant#gangsters again! and another set of new subordinates to be slightly uncomfortable around Kingdom's Big Police Chief. actually this feels#very connected to the prev ep in a number of ways; Kingdom takes risks in developing this case which are quite similar the risks Ward took#in the last one (and which blew up in his face and for which he was roundly told off); of course it all works out fine for our hero..#the case is one of a murdered vagrant‚ mistaken for a gangland bigwig. thus the script splits fairly neatly between covering the#mob plot stuff whilst also doing a little half hearted soul searching about alcohol abuse and homelessness among#those on the margins of society. it's weakly handled compared to some of the other social issue stuff the series has tried its hand at and#it has a strangely pointless downbeat ending (there's no real reason for that side of the plot to end so hopelessly and sadly)#i will say it makes a change to have Ward acting carefully and showing disapproval of Kingdom's ethically dubious attempts#to provoke action; quite a character reversal for the two‚ all the more clear for mirroring so closely their opposite views in the prev one#no big draws in the guest cast but i did enjoy kenneth gilbert's weary forensics guy. oh and there's a WDC but it isn't Pauline Stroud#ig she's gone the way of other minor recurring faces from s1 (including Kingdom's journalist brother in law) and disappeared into the ether
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