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Where to Find Emily Watson: From ‘Angela’s Ashes’ to AMC+’s ‘Too Close’By Brigid Brown | May 25, 2021
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Emily Watson currently stars as a forensic psychiatrist in the AMC+ miniseries
Denise Gough) drive her car off a bridge, into the river, with two small children in the back seat.
While heartbreaking for all involved, Dr. Robertson (Watson) steps in to help find out what got the frayed mother to this point:
The woman, now detained, is not too keen on Watson’s character coming to see her, saying, “Here we are, in some fancy part of North London, where rumor has it, there are more therapists than there are nut jobs. So, when you look at it that way, I think you’ll find, I’m the one who is helping you.”
While on the surface this week s episode of Clarice doesn t make a lot of traction on the river murder investigation (in fact, it gets shut down), it s an episode that tries to do a lot with character development and themes about father figures or family loss, mostly sidelining Clarice as the centerpiece for a case that almost effects the whole VICAP team.
The episode opens with a disturbing new case in Alexandria, Virginia, where a diseased boy named Cody Phelps was found in the walls of a house. The boy had been missing for about a year.
VICAP is called to the scene, but not before Starling recognizes Paul Krendler s divorce lawyer pictured on a magazine on Krendler s desk! Clarice immediately declares that is man she saw at the hospital and who is probably related to the river murder case. All of the men in the room are quick to dismiss Clarice, but Paul decides he should look closer into it and keep his meeting. He then assigns Agent Clarke to lead and oversee the new case in A