Things Can Only Get Better

Episode aired Sep 10, 2013
TV-14
59m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

183

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Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Following the 1997 General Election Ben Ransley, a young researcher for successful MP Liz Jackson, was murdered and the case is reopened on the discovery of £40,000 in an off-shore account i... Read allFollowing the 1997 General Election Ben Ransley, a young researcher for successful MP Liz Jackson, was murdered and the case is reopened on the discovery of £40,000 in an off-shore account in his name. Ben's best friend, arrogant lobbyist Eddie Trenton, gives Sandra a photo of Be... Read allFollowing the 1997 General Election Ben Ransley, a young researcher for successful MP Liz Jackson, was murdered and the case is reopened on the discovery of £40,000 in an off-shore account in his name. Ben's best friend, arrogant lobbyist Eddie Trenton, gives Sandra a photo of Ben with his girlfriend, who turns out to be Hana, the Bosnian wife of tycoon Peter Russell,... Read all

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Superintendent Pullman suggests that the team examine the council's CCTV records from sixteen years ago to check a suspect's alibi. However, Home Office guidelines are that CCTV footage is retained for only 31 days (unless known to be needed in a police inquiry), and councils don't keep any footage for more than two years. No CCTV recordings would be kept for 16 years, and Pullman would certainly have known this.

Quotes
[last lines]
Gerry Standing: [to Max] Why don't you stick around; we're going for summat to eat.
Steve McAndrew: Yeah, Danny's going to break the padlock on his wallet or face a data protection charge; you don't want to miss that.
Max Clement: Shouldn't mind. Where we going?
Gerry Standing: Bombay Boonah.
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Why don't we try somewhere different?
Danny Griffin: Like what?
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: A kebab?
Gerry Standing: Kebab! No! We know what we like and we like what we know. Listen, I doubt if you can get a good Jalfrezi where you come from.
Max Clement: A what?
Gerry Standing: It's a traditional English dish.

Soundtracks
It's Alright
Written by Mike Moran
Sung by Dennis Waterman

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Featured review

8/10

Quality episode.

The UCOS team investigate the death of Ben Ransley, a young researcher for Labour MP Liz Jackson, who was murdered.

Such a good episode, this was so different to recent episodes, a change in pace, a change in tone. Not often did we get to see political thrillers on New Tricks, but that's exactly what this is, it's a very good, intelligent watch.

The Bosnian angle added something very different, I really did enjoy Hannah's story, her scenes with Sandra were terrific. Pacing was excellent here, visually it was tremendous. Actually a very sad story, so well written.

Some great location work here, the scenes around Westminster looked fantastic, heaven knows how they managed to close roads off to film those scenes.

Jason Durr and Stephen Greif were both excellent in their respective roles, giving commanding performances, both had real presence.

8/10.