DCI Banks (Season 1 & 2) - 2-DVD Set ( DCI Banks - Season One and Two )

DCI Banks (Season 1 & 2) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: DCI Banks - Season One and Two
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
360 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
James Hawes
Bill Anderson

Written By:
Peter Robinson
Robert Murphy

Actors:
Stephen Tompkinson ..... DCI Alan Banks (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Andrea Lowe ..... DS Annie Cabbot (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Lorraine Burroughs ..... DS Winsome Jackman (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Jack Deam ..... DC Ken Blackstone (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Colin Tierney ..... Chief Supt Gerry Rydell (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Tom Shaw ..... DC Kevin Templeton (4 episodes, 2011)
Charlotte Riley ..... Lucy Payne (3 episodes, 2010-2011)
Samuel Roukin ..... Marcus Payne (2 episodes, 2010)
Monica Dolan ..... Maggie Forrest (2 episodes, 2010)
Andonis Anthony ..... Niall Gilbert (2 episodes, 2011)
John Bowe ..... Dr. Patrick Aspern (2 episodes, 2011)
Ian Bartholomew ..... Timothy Randall (2 episodes, 2011)
Sian Breckin ..... PC Janet Taylor (2 episodes, 2010)
Ross Armstrong ..... PC Rickert (2 episodes, 2011)
Marc Finn ..... Geoff Hamilton (2 episodes, 2011)
Myles Keogh ..... PC Dennis Morrisey (2 episodes, 2010)
Gail Burland ..... Dina Howarth (2 episodes, 2011)
James Boyland ..... Tony Grimes (2 episodes, 2011)
John Light ..... Mark Keane (2 episodes, 2011)
Joanna Burnett ..... Claire Naylor (2 episodes, 2011)
Tamzin Merchant ..... Miranda (2 episodes, 2011)
Raquel Cassidy ..... Dr. Elizabeth Waring (2 episodes, 2011)
Jade Williams ..... Gerry Siddons (2 episodes, 2011)
Hannah Orr ..... Leanne Wray (2 episodes, 2010)
Tim Dantay ..... Geoff Daniels (2 episodes, 2011)
Gemma Hepworth ..... Judy (2 episodes, 2011)
Barry Sloane ..... Jackie Wray (2 episodes, 2010)
Ellie Jacob ..... Ruth Walker (2 episodes, 2011)
Anna Wilson-Jones ..... Rosalind Rydell (2 episodes, 2011)
Michael Maloney ..... Malcolm Austin (2 episodes, 2011)
Sarah Beck Mather ..... Chelsea Pilton (2 episodes, 2011)
Terence Maynard ..... Barry Clough (2 episodes, 2011)
Susan Mitchell ..... Donna Daniels (2 episodes, 2011)
Scarlett Rose Patterson ..... Emily Rydell (2 episodes, 2011)
Morgan Watkins ..... Jamie Morden (2 episodes, 2011)
Ian Weichardt ..... Stuart Kinsey (2 episodes, 2011)
Robert Willox ..... Dr. Burns (2 episodes, 2011)

Synopsis:

Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Grafters) leads the cast as detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, based on the hugely successful novels from award-winning international crime writer Peter Robinson. Tompkinson stars in the TV adaptation of three Inspector Banks novels: Playing with Fire, Friend of the Devil and Cold is the Grave. In Playing with Fire two bodies are found after a fire on some narrow boats and Banks and DS Annie Cabbot find themselves on the trail of an arsonist who has killed two people. In Friend of the Devil a young student is attacked in the middle of the city and in another part of Yorkshire a woman has her throat cut, but the two different murders have disturbing similarities. Cold is the Grave is a case terrifyingly close to home as Banks is asked by his boss, Superintendant Gerry Rydell, to find his missing teenage daughter...
Season 1
Aftermath: Part 1 S1, Ep1 27 Sep. 2010
Aftermath: Part 2 S1, Ep2 4 Oct. 2010
Season 2
Playing with Fire: Part 1 S2, Ep1 16 Sep. 2011
Playing with Fire: Part 2 S2, Ep2 23 Sep. 2011
Friend of the Devil: Part 1 S2, Ep3 30 Sep. 2011
Friend of the Devil: Part 2 S2, Ep4 7 Oct. 2011
Cold Is the Grave: Part 1 S2, Ep5 14 Oct. 2011
Cold Is the Grave: Part 2 S2, Ep6 21 Oct. 2011

Season 1

Aftermath: Part 1 S1, Ep1 27 Sep. 2010

Two police officers are called to an apparent domestic where they find Lucy Payne unconscious. Investigating a noise in the cellar they are attacked by her husband Marcus, who kills one of them with a machete before the other, Janet Taylor, knocks him out and he is arrested. D.C.I. Alan Banks comes to the house and finds the corpses of four missing blonde girls, though there is no sign of Leanne Wray, who also disappeared.

Aftermath: Part 2 S1, Ep2 4 Oct. 2010

Thanks to a Chief Superintendent who is obsessed with damage-limitation, Janet is charged with manslaughter though Annie makes sure that she gets off. A friend of the missing Leanne leads Alan to believe that Payne had a female accomplice to lure the girls into his car and Lucy is the obvious suspect, though she denies it, at the same time admitting she knew her husband was a killer.

Season 2

Episode 1: Playing with Fire - Part 1
Original Air Date-16 September 2011
Banks and his team investigate when book-seller Leslie Whittaker's charred corpse is found on his burnt-out houseboat along with a strong-box containing twenty thousand pounds and a Turner painting. An informant links Whittaker to crazy artist Jake McMahon,who specializes in forgeries whilst Annie Cabbot seeks the advice of art expert Mark Keane and gets personal with him. Christina Aspen's body is also found floating in the river and her girl-friend tells Banks she was about to inform on her father,an elderly doctor with a very young wife, Miranda,whose car was spotted near the murder scene. After Banks has struck Aspen for insulting a black policewoman McMahon's corpse is discovered.
Episode 2: Playing with Fire - Part 2
Original Air Date-23 September 2011
Banks gets a warning for hitting Aspen,after which more money and forgeries are found at the burnt out scene of McMahon's murder.Banks deduces that Gerry, Christina's girl-friend, is one of the forgers and she tells him she believes the killer is called Gary Morrison,who sold the artists' fake paintings but had a sinister hold over them. Banks is displeased to learn that Annie is having an affair with Keane - who also admits to being afraid of Morrison,though he has worked with him. With the evidence pointing to one of two suspects Banks must make a mercy dash to save a life before exposing a sordid secret.
Episode 3: Friend of the Devil - Part 1
Original Air Date-30 September 2011
Whilst Banks investigates the rape and murder of student Hayley Daniels, arresting the shop-keeper, Timothy Randall, in whose store-room she was found,Annie investigates the death of wheelchair-bound, paralyzed Karen Drew, taken by a mystery woman from her care home and slaughtered on the site where,years earlier,serial killers Lucy and Marcus Payne dumped their victims. In fact Karen turns out to have been Lucy Payne, given a new identity on release from prison. Having satisfied himself that Hayley's lecturer lover Martin Austin is innocent he is called to another incident. This time young policeman Kevin Templeton has his throat slashed in a manner identical to Lucy Payne's murder.
Episode 4: Friend of the Devil - Part 2
Original Air Date-7 October 2011
The team is in shock after Kevin's murder. They deduce that he was acting as a vigilante patrolling the alleys to prevent further murders but the witness who saw his death presumed he was out to harm her. She identifies the slayer as a woman but pathologist Dr. Waring disputes this and sees no link with Lucy Payne's death, causing Annie to doubt. Randall is cleared of Hayley's murder when he is given an alibi and, with several likely suspects, Banks is back at square one. Annie however learns of a former rape victim whose perpetrator was murdered before she disappeared,providing a link to Lucy Payne and a clue to the identity of the double murderer.
Episode 5: Cold is the Grave - Part 1
Original Air Date-14 October 2011
Petty crook Charlie McKay is found murdered in a gangland execution after stealing a van. Meanwhile Banks goes to London to bring back Emily, the erring schoolgirl daughter of Chief Superintendent Rydell, whose topless photos have appeared on the Internet. Banks tracks her down living with violent criminal Barry Clough and returns her to her parents. However, after Emily has implied she has a lot of incriminating evidence about Clough, his henchman Niall Gilbert follows them and she disappears again. Then a young girl's corpse is discovered.
Season 2, Episode 6: Cold is the Grave - Part 2
Original Air Date-21 October 2011
The dead girl is Emily. The stress causes her parents to separate, her mother Rosalind telling Banks that Ruth, who was Emily's flatmate in London, is the illegitimate daughter that she gave up for adoption before she met Rydell. Banks is suspicious of Tony,the lad whose van was supposedly stolen by Charlie McKay and the team shadows him,saving him from being shot by Niall Gilbert. Banks gets Tony to confess that he and McKay were couriers for Clough, whom they robbed, Charlie paying with his life. Banks, noting the recent decline in drug arrests,also wonders whether Rydell was on Clough's payroll, the answer to his question coming after a further visit to Rosalind which solves everything.

Stephen Tompkinson plays DCI Banks, Andrea Lowe is DS Annie Cabbot, Lorraine Burroughs is DS Winsome Jackman, Jack Deam is DC Ken Blackstone, Colin Tierney is Chief Supt. Gerry Rydell and Tom Shaw is DC Kevin Templeton. Guest stars include Charlotte Riley, Monica Dolan, John Bowe, Ian Bartholomew, Sian Breckin, Tamzin Merchant, Barry Sloane and Michael Maloney.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 November, 2011.

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