Conviction - Complete Series - 2-DVD Set ( Blue Blood )

Conviction - Complete Series - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Blue Blood
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
360 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Marc Munden
David Richards

Written By:
Bill Gallagher

Actors:
William Ash ..... Chrissie Fairburn
Ian Puleston-Davies ..... Joe Payne
Reece Dinsdale ..... Robert Seymour
Laura Fraser ..... Lucy Romanis (6 episodes, 2004)
Nicholas Gleaves ..... Ray Fairburn
Zoë Henry ..... Beth Caffrey (6 episodes, 2004)
David Warner ..... Lenny Fairburn
Linzey Cocker ..... Miriam Payne (6 episodes, 2004)
Angel Coulby ..... Jemma Ryan (6 episodes, 2004)
Jason Watkins ..... Jason Buliegh
Sharon Duce ..... Sandra Buliegh (5 episodes, 2004)
Sarah Kirkman ..... Lily Payne (5 episodes, 2004)
Jason Done ..... Sol Draper
Georgia Foote ..... Angela Fairley
Jennifer Hennessy ..... Judy Fairley (3 episodes, 2004)
Dominique Jackson ..... Polly Caffrey
Matthew Dunster ..... Carl Waters (2 episodes, 2004)
Steve Evets ..... Tom Tiernan (2 episodes, 2004)
Suzanne Hall ..... Sian Fairburn (2 episodes, 2004)
Reece Noi ..... Darrell Milland (2 episodes, 2004)

Synopsis:

Conviction, a pacy, dark and innovative new drama series from BBC reinvents the popular crime genre with a fresh, new and thought-provoking perspective on murder and value of human life. Brothers Chrissie and Ray are CID officers whose team struggle against a growing sense of vigilantism on their patch. However, when the murder of a 12-year-old girl heightens the tension on the streets, the shell-shocked community become intent on revenge. As the public clamour for justice, Chrissie and Ray must address the discord stirred up in their own family as their father, a retired police officer suffering Alzheimers, questions the departments politically correct investigation while their sister, a lawyer, agrees to represent a suspect in the brutal slaying. Desperate to close the case before the streets erupt in violence, the investigation takes a dark turn as two members of the CID moves beyond the rulebook and down a volatile and dangerous path that could ruin careers and destroy lives.

Exploring the idea that everyone has the ability to kill and investigating what it is that can trigger the reaction in any of us, Conviction is a dark and innovative drama. Penned by Bill Gallagher (Clocking Off) Brothers Chrissie (William Ash) and Ray (Nicholas Gleaves) are part of a team of CID officers who have a constant battle against a growing sense of vigilantism on their patch. However, the murder of a 12-year-old girl heightens the tensions and leaves her local community shell-shocked and intent on revenge. As the public clamour for justice, the distinction between right and wrong becomes all too easily blurred. Those involved in the murder investigation take ever more dangerous steps in their efforts to bring it to a conclusion, until two of them take things a step too far. Critically acclaimed, Conviction secured BAFTA and Royal Television Society Awards nominations in the Best Series category.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1
Original Air Date-7 November 2004
A young girl, 12 year-old Angela Fairley, is stabbed 38 times and dumped in a parking lot. The police are under pressure to get a conviction in the case and they focus their investigation on a local man, Jason Buliegh, who was convicted as a pedophile some years before. The autopsy shows that she was not sexually assaulted and some of the squad doubt that they have the right man. Two members of the team, Joe Payne and Chrissie Fairburn, are convinced that Buliegh is their man and set out to force a confession from him. Their plans go awry however and it all gets out of hand. Both policemen have problems of their own. Payne is known as a bit of a hothead who was responsible for mucking a major case some years before. Fairburn comes from a family of policeman and feels inadequate compared to his now retired father and successful older brother.
Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2
Original Air Date-7 November 2004
With definitive proof that Jason Buliegh could not have committed the murder of Angela Fairley, Joe and Chrissie begin to rationalize what they have done. Buliegh's solicitor, who happens to be Chrissie's sister, issues an appeal for anyone who might have seen him. The squad begins to focus on other suspects, including a drug dealer who lived on the same estate and the dead girl's parents. A problem arises when Chrissie's father, a retired former policeman suffering from dementia, begins to remember some of the events on the fateful evening. Chrissie ingratiates himself with Buliegh's mother in the hope that he will be the first to get any information she might acquire. DS Lucy Romanis has been so busy on the case that she has done no work on the case of an elderly man who was beaten by three youths.
Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3
Original Air Date-14 November 2004
To Joe's amazement, Chrissie finds a witness who saw two men push Buliegh into a car. Chrissie is feeling the pressure and is feeling sorry for Mrs. Buliegh. Joe informs him that he has moved the body. DS Lucy Romanis realizes that the beating victim she has been avoiding may have actually seen the two boys Angela Fairley was with before she died. The police locate the site where Angela was killed and arrest the boys. Chrissie agrees with his brother and sister that their father's dementia is such that he needs to be placed in a home. Chrissie and Joe begin to crack under the pressure.
Season 1, Episode 4: Episode #1.4
Original Air Date-14 November 2004
A month has passed since the police solved the murder of Angela Fairley, but all is not well between Chrissie and Joe. Chrissie has not seen his girlfriend since he broke off their engagement and he confessed to her that he and Joe killed Jason Buliegh. There's a strange twist when, after an all-night stakeout, Chrissie is shot and Joe taken hostage by Carl Waters a mentally unstable man whose girlfriend may have been raped by his father, Malcolm. Chrissie reconciles with his fiancée and she suggests he blame Joe for the murder. Chrissie and Ray's Dad, a retired copper suffering from dementia, has fragmented memories of the night Jason Buliegh was buried, but Ray thinks it's his Dad who may have killed someone years before.
Season 1, Episode 5: Episode #1.5
Original Air Date-21 November 2004
While continuing their search For Carl Waters, the police stumble across Jason Buliegh's original grave and open a formal murder investigation. DNA confirms his presence there and they advise his mother. All this leads Joe Payne to panic and he decides to dig up and relocate Jason's body a second time but has trouble disposing of the remains. The police arrest Neil Harding who was overheard bragging that he killed Jason and buried him. He now says it was just drunken blather but his wife Donna doesn't help his case. When an eyewitness picks Harding out of a police line up, Chrissie wants to confess all to his brother Ray but can't quite bring himself to do it. Joe gets a speeding infraction in the mail - a speed camera photographed his car the night they killed Jason Buliegh.
Season 1, Episode 6: Episode #1.6
Original Air Date-21 November 2004
Joe finally disposes of Jason Buliegh's body but unknown to him, he was seen by someone he once arrested. As the senior officer in charge of the case, Chrissie's brother Ray feels responsible for Buliegh's death and announces he will resign - but not before he catches the killer. Ray and Chrissie's Dad continues to remember bits and pieces of the night Buliegh was killed and now recalls that Chrissie was there. Because of the speeding ticket, Joe's wife begins to suspect something is amiss. Robert Seymour also suspects Joe was involved.

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