In your dreams
HAS THE SURGEON MANAGED TO ESCAPE PRISON, OR IS IT JUST HIS IMAGINATION?
Last we saw of this outlandish crime thriller, Friar Pete (guest star Christian Borle) was offering Michael Sheen’s serial killer a “bible study group for the faithful interested in Exodus”.
Nudge nudge, wink wink, cue lots of digging. And before you know it, it’s all gone a bit Shawshank Redemption and The Surgeon Martin Whitly (Sheen) emerges from prison covered in dirt and on the loose.
It’s the moment that his wife Jessica (Bellamy Young) welcomes him back with open arms and a glass of wine that it is clearly all Whitly’s dream.
“Or more precisely, a pathetic delusion,” says his son Malcolm Bright, played by Tom Payne.
Back in reality, Whitley grows closer to Friar Pete, hoping to plot his escape from prison.
Meanwhile, Malcolm is called to the case of a murder at Remington Academy – the oppressive boarding school that he attended, leaving him mentally scarred for life.
The victim is the despised headmaster Brumback, a disciplinarian who was hated by parents and students alike.
He was found bound to his office chair, surrounded by the rest of his office furniture, at the bottom of the school swimming pool. A prank and a murder all in one.
Malcolm will have other problems – his mother, of course, who is on the school’s board and wants to protect its reputation, as well as a troubling secret from his past.
Elsewhere, Jessica struggles with her decision to end things with Gil, while JT eagerly anticipates the birth of his baby.