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Ghost Canyon

'Touching Evil: Complete Collection'
(Robson Green, et al / 5-Disc DVD / NR / 2010 / Acorn Media)

Overview: Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green, Wire in the Blood) is new to the Organized and Serial Crime unit, but he’s no stranger to violence. After a gunshot wound to the head, Creegan recovers to find his personal life in shambles - and realizes his own unique ability to connect with the criminal mind.p> DVD Verdict: So, what's the difference between 'Touching Evil' and Green's other crime show, 'Wire in the Blood'? Well, not much, to be honest. Both are dark, depressingly, deep tales of human woe, human torment, and human consequences - and that's just within Green's characters' own head!

Very emotionally dramatic, draining to watch even, 'Touching Evil' Green plays the lead man as a smooth, charming, if not slightly left of center man. Someone definitely in the game, but which game is another matter! In the first episode, a set of triple child abductions appear to be a suspect's repeat serial crime. Is it a criminal game by the suspect?

Will facts from the old serial deaths save a still-missing youth? With an in-house psychiatrist a dead ringer - in looks and mannerisms to the same one from Waking The Dead - they strive to get the person responsible. Ian McDiarmid is brilliant here as the bad guy and the final tie-up at the end is well performed.

In the next episode, three suspicious hospital deaths were patients under Dr. Walker - who, as it turns out, favors euthanasia. The investigation causes Creegan to recall his out-of-body death experience and resuscitation. Here we begin with the previous opening episode before the details of the hospital deaths are brought forth. One of the first ever Creegan head-shot flashbacks happens here - nothing too much to talk about, as it's over and done with in blurry fashion. The episode has a slow roll within it final third, but gets there ... just!

A series of horse killings spread over the world in the next episode. But, do they really have a connection to each other and a web game too? Finding out who is behind it and why takes Creegan to another level of mental exhaustion, but he seemingly gets stronger and stronger as we progress.

Here, we get a weird start, the introduction of the web game 'Amathus,' and around the 50th minute a BIG CONFESSION is revealed! The ending is VERY unexpected, and well worth buying the DVD box-set alone! Indeed, the ending is the best part of the series!

In the next episode, a reporter gets an email message within 48 hrs of a murder. OSC tracks the suspect who retains photos and scalps of victims as trophies. The culprit is jailed but, of course, the deaths continue. Starring the always-brilliant James Nesbitt (Jekyll), he carries this tale from start to finish. And sure, as much as the ending is 100% expected, the way it is played out is class all the way.

In the following episode, Bosnia War experiences cause an ex-soldier horror memories. An executed body dumped at its own doorstep begins the search for the serial killer leaving a trail of washed victims with punctured brains. This one admittedly carries with it a long, flashback lead in to the plot from the episode before it!

In this episode, Rivers is starting to go off the boil, a trip is even undertaken to Romania, and yes, the shooting at the very end is 100% unexpected! Totally unexpected and is well played out.

In the next episode, which opens with an abduction - which seems to be a running theme here in 'Touching Evil - this icky storyline plays out nicely, and with class. It also features a robbery as a primarily crime, but again, the "loot" being taken is children. Britain's gathering of international child abductors is something that the OSC has to now deal with. And yes, there is a great reveal at the end - a twist quite like no other. Wow! What an ending!

In another episode, a convicted wife killer is released after a successful appeal and reversal of confession. Creegan beats the team to the northern town of the murder only to have a third local murder of a woman. With the only common link a heart removed and left beside the body in a trash bag, Creegan is not at his best - and yet needs to be.

He is run down, on leave, and after a Matrix-style flashback to his own personal wounding, Creegan comes face-to-face with the brilliant character actor, Andy Serkis (LOTR). Suddenly its North vs South police forces trying to find the killer before the other. The killer is 100% guessable from the moment 'someone' comes onto the screen, but what they do to a series regular cop at the end is INCREDIBLE to watch!

In the final episode of the series, arson puts this investigation in the lap of OSC because it was people being burned. A new replacement for the killed-in-the-episode-before is on deck and, unexpectedly, Creegan has a trust with her! Sadly, the killer is 100% expected and guessed early on, the ending LONG drawn out, but that said, it still is a funny, loving way to end a series. These are all Full-Screen Presentations (1.33:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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