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Crime drama Bloodlands grows all the more gripping with each episode and the second instalment did not disappoint. Troubled police officer Tom Brannick (played by James Nesbitt) left viewers shocked and uncertain about his motivations with his latest move. Express.co.uk looks at the most recent episode of BBC series Bloodlands and why Tom murdered someone in cold blood.
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Early in Episode 1, we see our lead DCI Tom Brannick, played by Northern Ireland native James Nesbitt, called to a crime scene. He takes the ferry to the harbour where he finds a car being hauled out of Strangford Lough, very much one of the stars of the show.
The largest sea loch in the British Isles, this stretch of water on the east coast was the original inspiration for the series. Writer Chris Brandon grew up in Strangford and says: ‘It’s a place that has always sparked my imagination. The austere beauty of the scarred and sodden hillsides – the windswept islands and bouldered shorelines always seemed, in themselves, to hold the memory of stories past.’
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Is it possible for anyone outside the confines of Northern Ireland, outside all those gaunt, dripping branches and rolling green hummocks, to cram so many vowel sounds into a single-syllable word, eg the word “now”? As in “Leave, now!
Naouiheaiuughea, I tell ye!” We were reintroduced to that grand Belfast accent courtesy of BBC One’s nicely wriggly four-parter
Bloodlands, and I feel I can still hear the chill tattoo of hard rain on tin roofs.
There will be blood, and doubtless oilskin-wrapped old revolvers rattling inside still-crumbed cake tins
This is writer Chris Brandon’s first big foray into TV, and he must be counting some lucky stars: he has been granted the imprimatur of the sainted Jed Mercurio, and also of stars James Nesbitt, who can do lugubrious, enigmatic cop better than most, and Lorcan Cranitch, hurrah, who, as we know from