SILENT WITNESS
BBC One, 9pm
Good news for fans of the forensics drama that miss pathologist Professor Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton), who abandoned the Lyell laboratory in 2004 to return to Northern Ireland. Burton returns to mark the world’s longest-running crime drama’s 25th series.
Ryan now runs a global medical data company with her husband, Jomo Mashaba (Hugh Quarshie), and they are on the cusp of signing a lucrative, and controversial,
contract with the UK government for the introduction of medical passports. However, when Jomo is badly injured in a fatal attack on the health secretary (cue excellent use of Liverpool’s rejuvenated dockside locations), Sam must as for the Lyell’s help – but who was the actual target, the minister or Jomo?
What follows is a nicely convoluted drama with forensic facts aplenty, plus a bundle of complex plot
twists as just about everyone – including Ryan – appears shifty. All the while, there are furtive looks exchanged between Lyell colleagues Nikki (Emilia Fox) and Jack (David Caves) as they continue their intensifying flirtation from last series.
The pathologists discover the truth of the matter quick smart, as always (if only police work proceeded at the same pace in reality); the gripping story concludes tomorrow.