Now to some TV belatedly. The new Season of Blue Bloods has impressed with Commissioner of police Frank concerned with the latest internal opinion polls suggesting th men in the force felt that he was out of touch. After talking things over with his father ,a previous Commissioner, he goes on unannounced walk about and discovered that the commander of a local station is not on duty when he should. He is absence is covered up be staff but Frank persists and discovers that he mans wife is on last days with cancer. Frank ( Tom Sellick) also covers up and the episodes with him going for a drink a local bar used by the station to buy th desk sergeant a drink and to offer one on the house for everyone on his tab. The main story concerns a well known TV and film star shadowing the eldest surviving son Danny ( Donny Walberg) decides it will not work after the man gets involved in an arrest where the subject pulls a gun and a sniffer dog susses the man is carrying pot, albeit subscribed via medical prescription. He gives his card and promised to arrange for the actor to talk some experience retired officers.
Later he gets a phone call from the actor who has been stabbed, pretends he was mugged but admits he was going to a gay rendezvous via a internet site phone. Later there is a death through stabbing clearly the same perpetrator and Danny persuades the actor to cooperate on the basis everything is done to keep the info out of the media because of the impact on his career. The villain is caught and the actor is grateful with Danny keeping his secret from the women of all ages in the family continue to adore the star.
The first episode was of a very different order when the sister assistant DS is able to hold a murder suspect because the only witness had been steered by her brother and will not hold up in caught. The police operate Blue flue failing to show up to give evidence in cases she is prosecuting. Her position is not understood by the rest of family especially her grandfather. She finds a way of working with his brother to effectively trick the man into confessing and then walking away from a deal offered thus enabling the confession to be used as stand alone and without a sentencing deal.
The Tunnel is a British French collaboration which has worked as an extended thriller with several twists over the with the following Wikipedia episode notes
“ French politician Marie Villeneuve is found dead in the Channel Tunnel on the border between France and the UK. The body has been cut in half, with the lower half belonging to another victim, Welsh prostitute Gemma Kirwan, who was missing for several months. Karl Roebuck (Dillane) and Elise Wassermann (Poésy), the respective British and French detectives, work together to find the killer. In France, Charlotte Jubert (Balibar) is a suspect, having made threats against Villeneuve. Charlotte insists that she only did so to stop her from badgering her husband Alain (Carriere), a wealthy banker who is in hiding fearing for his life. The maintenance driver who found the body is later found dead. In the UK, Stephen Beaumont (Mawle) runs a hostel for failed asylum seekers and takes in Colombian-born Veronica (Catalina Denis). Meanwhile, Karl and Elise find a suspect in tabloid journalist Danny Hillier (Bateman), whose car was seen when Gemma was last seen alive (however it turns out that Hillier was in Prague at the time). Hillier enters his car to find it rigged with explosives. When the timer reaches zero however, it is revealed that there was no bomb. Instead, the killer leaves behind a message”
The British Detective is with his second young family and teenage son with whom he is in constant battle while the French detective is a loner who detaches love from sexual encounters which tend to be casual and where the rest of her life is work abd more work..
Episode Twp “The killer releases a viral video stating that the killings was the first of five "truths", "inequality before the law". Alain gets run over by a high-speed train getting away from people who are following him. In Folkestone, Karl further investigates Gemma's disappearance. Stephen moves Veronica and her son to an abandoned cottage to protect her from Anthony (Ed Skrein), the pimp who ran Gemma. In Calais, Elise has casual sex with a barman, as well as examining threats made against Villeneuve, leading her to an anti-Zionist farmer, based on the coroner's observation that the victims were cut with a saw used in slaughterhouses. At the farm, Elise finds the lower half of Villeneuve, but she realises the killer misled her; she releases the farmer because he cannot speak English. Later, the killer releases a second video in which he intends to target the elderly, who he deems as unproductive to society, for the second "truth", and later attacks a Folkestone retirement home by poisoning the residents' medication, resulting in several fatalities. Care worker Suze Beaumont (Hawes), Stephen's sister and Anthony's lover, who steals some of the drugs for intoxication, also falls victim. “
Episode 3 “recovering in hospital, the killer, nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist" (TT) by Hillier, calls Hillier to inform him he will continue the second truth in France, and later kidnaps World War 2 veteran Jean-Claude Delplanque (Pascal Laurent); his imprisonment is live streamed. Elise comes to understand that the Truth Terrorist is a mastermind, having covering his tracks thoroughly. What he does not account for is that a runaway teen couple accidentally find Jean-Claude, and are captured by the Truth Terrorist. Veronica calls Anthony for help, where he instructs her to run away to London. Meanwhile, troubled teenager Sophie Campbell (Mia Goth) runs away from her abusive mother and is taken in by Benji (Paul Ready), a seemingly trustworthy person. Karl and Elise learn Jean-Claude is in cold storage, and he is slowly freezing to death. The Truth Terrorist brings Hillier an untraceable phone, and emails him the photographs of four people who he says can save Jean-Claude. “
Episode 4 “ The four people are revealed to be wealthy businesspeople, who are demanded to make a significant donation to charity. Charlotte, who is one of them, investigates Alain's death and learns he had a second wife. Karl and Elise realise that Jean-Claude was targeted because he was suspected to have murdered his father. Three of the businesspeople opt out of paying, while Charlotte agrees to pay for all of them to wipe away all trace of Alain. Meanwhile, French police notice occasional vibrations on the live stream, which they determine (via audio analysis) are passing trains. They narrow his location to two cold stores. Karl and Elise search for what turns out to be the correct location. Armed police attempt to apprehend the Truth Terrorist, but he escapes. Jean-Claude does not survive, but the runaway couple are found alive. Elise suspects that the Truth Terrorist may know Karl after he was kicked in the groin (Karl recently had a vasectomy). In the UK, Sophie believes that Benji is mentally ill when she finds a cupboard full of unused prescription drugs. It is also hinted that Benji intends to go on a samurai-style suicide mission, and later wields a katana. “
Episode 5 “The third "truth" highlights the mentally ill; Benji beheads a psychiatrist and several pedestrians, and then kills himself with cyanide following his arrest. Karl sees Charlotte regarding encrypted files on her husband's computer, and Charlotte uses the opportunity to seduce him. Karl later returns home to find that his wife Laura (Coulby) is pregnant. Karl and Elise have to find Sophie before the Truth Terrorist does, who is posing as her father online. Karl and Elise find Sophie in an internet café, where Elise decides to lure the Truth Terrorist in a trap by using Sophie as bait at the Folkestone docks. Instead, the Truth Terrorist attempts to kill Sophie with a sniper rifle, but Elise saves her. Meanwhile, Karl's colleague Chuks Akinade (Bakare) finds a picture of Gemma on Stephen's computer. Stephen, now a suspect, murders Anthony. The Truth Terrorist arrives in France to kidnap police officer Laurent Delgado (Dimitri Rataud), who is accused of murdering a teenager named Mehdi Cherfi. “
Episode 6” Stephen boards a ferry to Calais, only to be caught by Karl and Elise. He admits to killing Anthony for destroying his work to help people, Gemma being one of them, before killing himself with a knife. The Truth Terrorist demonstrates the fourth truth, "the youth of today", by burning alive four youths who were convicted for their parts in the 2011 England riots using white phosphorus, which ignites by exposure to air. Hillier decides to ignore the Truth Terrorist's suggestion of a front page title, and as a consequence, the woman he had a one night stand with dies in the same fashion. Laura learns of Karl's affair, while Karl learns that his son Adam (Lowden) spent the night with Elise. Calais police learn that the French youths in the fourth truth were killed during a riot; one of them was Mehdi. Yacine, Mehdi's brother, is lured to an abandoned shop to find a restrained Laurent. Using a planted petrol can, Yacine forces Laurent to confess for killing Mehdi, and then writes a confession letter at home for Laurent to sign, but is stopped by Karl and Elise before he can return. Yacine's father finds Laurent and decides to release him. However, Laurent is then shot to death by the Truth Terrorist. “
Episode 7 “Karl and Elise believe that the Truth Terrorist is a police officer based on his knowledge of police procedures. Laurent's widow suspects it was one of his colleagues during training exercises, which was financed by a ZP Holdings. However, their office is found to be deserted. The Truth Terrorist hijacks a minibus of school children in Kent and holds them in a farm. For the final truth, covering the exploitation of children, the Truth Terrorist urges the public to attack department stores known for using child labour in third world countries, releasing a child for each attack, before making the public decide on which of the two remaining children will die. Ultimately, he lets them both live and executes the minibus driver. The Truth Terrorist later calls Hillier and offers to give himself up after an exclusive interview with him, but instead, he kills Hillier with a bomb. Cécile Cabrillac (Sigrid Bouaziz), Elise's colleague, finds the identity of the police officer believed to be the Truth Terrorist; Fabien Vincent. “
Episode 8 “ Karl and Elise's hunt for Fabien (Thierry Frémont) is hindered by direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI), who are using him as an asset. Fabien helped investigate ZP Holdings, who were suspected of gunwalking. Karl investigates Hillier's murder and discovers that his original name was Giles Haddock. Before the name change, Giles was drunk driving and was responsible for the deaths of the wife and child of Kieran Ashton, a police officer Karl once worked with. Kieran had since committed suicide. Meanwhile, Fabien kidnaps Elise. She realises that he is not the Truth Terrorist. Fabien reveals that he was a part of "Peloton", a joint operation of several European intelligence agencies, and killing Alain was one of their assignments. After escaping an assault by gangsters, Fabien releases Elise. Attention now falls on Ashton (James Frain), who is revealed to have faked his death; he is posing as Laura's friend John Sumner, and Adam's online girlfriend. “
Thee are two episodes more which I am looking forward to.
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