Taggart - The Knife Trick Collection - 2-DVD Set ( Safer / Homesick / Crossing the Line / Cold Reader / Grass / The Knife Trick )

Taggart - The Knife Trick Collection - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Safer / Homesick / Crossing the Line / Cold Reader / Grass / The Knife Trick
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
276 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

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

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Patrick Harkins

Written By:
Glenn Chandler
Stephen Brady

Actors:
Blythe Duff ..... DS Jackie Reid
John Michie ..... DI Robbie Ross
Alex Norton ..... DCI Matt Burke
Colin McCredie ..... DC Stuart Fraser
Katrina Bryan ..... Ellis Sinclair
Andrew Byatt ..... Shearer
William Armstrong ..... Parkes
Martin Haddow ..... Goldie
Margo Gunn ..... Pippa
John P. Arnold ..... Matheson (as John P Arnold)
Colin Harris ..... Eugene
Francesca Dymond ..... Doctor

Synopsis:

There's been a murder... Dark and gritty crime drama revolving around the officers of Maryhill CID investigating a variety of murders in the city of Glasgow featuring five brand new hour-long episodes.
List of Episodes:
Safer
A campaigner against domestic violence is found clubbed to death.
Homesick
A Polish immigrant is executed on a building site, sparking fears of ethnic cleansing.
Crossing the Line
A couple are found in a bricked up mine shaft having died from severe head injuries.
Cold Reader
A psychic helps with the investigation of the kidnapping of a young student.
Grass
One of Robbie's informers is found with a bullet in his head. Could Robbie be to blame?
The Knife Trick
A man is stabbed to death in front of 30 trainee police officers.

Season 24, Episode 7: Safer
Original Air Date-3 November 2008
Emily Patrick, founder of the Safer campaign against domestic violence is murdered, having threatened to name and shame several wife-beaters. One of them, Kevin Nash, brings charges against Robbie for beating him up after he has assaulted his wife. Another visits Emily's meeting under an assumed name and his failure to recognise her throws suspicion on her co-worker.

Season 24, Episode 9: Homesick
Original Air Date-8 December 2008
A building site security guard and a hotel housekeeper are both shot within a period of twenty-four hours. Both were Polish. When Anglo-Polish lawyer Paula Socacz, who runs the Kaczynski social club, is on a local radio phone-in show, a sinister caller owns to being the killer, with a racial motive. However, the discovery that the victims were cousins points towards a more personal reason for their deaths.

Season 24, Episode 10: Crossing the Line
Original Air Date-15 December 2008
When a disused coal pit is excavated to re-open as a mining museum, two corpses are found, belonging to a young married couple who disappeared twenty-four years earlier, seemingly to escape rent arrears, though none of the neighbours are forthcoming and Jackie, who grew up in the area, is angry with them. More deaths occur before a secret stretching back to the days of the miners' strikes is exposed.

Season 25, Episode 1: Cold Reader
Original Air Date-20 February 2009
When student Elaine Donohoe goes missing, Clare Vorland, a professed psychic, comes forward to help the police, though Burke is cynical. She claims to have had a vision involving a white van and indeed one is traced, belonging to another girl on Elaine's hockey team, whose brother has a dodgy past. Still not wholly convinced that Clare is genuine, Burke attends one of her meetings where he is shocked to find her disclosing facts from past that she could not logically know. This makes it all the more disturbing when she predicts where Elaine's corpse may be found.

Season 25, Episode 2: Grass
Original Air Date-30 April 2009
Robbie meets a one-night stand called Manda but she steals his book containing the names and details of his informants. One of them, Duffy, is found murdered with the word 'Grass' spray-painted next to him. When a second informant is shot dead, Robbie has to enlist Jackie's help to recover his book before there are any more deaths.

Season 25, Episode 3: The Knife Trick
Original Air Date-7 May 2009
During a reconstruction of a knife crime for trainee police officers, one lecturer, Michael Shearer, accidentally kills another, Alistair Matheson. Matheson had beaten Shearer to promotion and he is certainly suspect, particularly after his daughter Katie attempts suicide and he attempts to get rid of her encoded diary. But then another witness comes forward that she saw a suspicious looking student loitering around Matheson's office before the demonstration. When it is revealed that the knife has been tampered with, it is clear that the charge is murder.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 25 May, 2011.

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