Bloodlands spoilers follow – including episode two s ending.
Just when we thought we had a handle on what was going on, BBC One s
Bloodlands served up an absolute stunner of a cliffhanger. Up until now, DCI Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt) has been investigating a 20-year-old murder-mystery plot. Goliath is the codename for an unidentified killer, thought to be a police insider, who was responsible for the deaths of four people – both Catholic and Protestant – in the run up to the Good Friday Agreement. The sensitive nature of the killings, and their timing, led to a cover-up in the interests of keeping the peace.
James Nesbitt stars as world-weary detective Tom Brannick in Bloodlands
Credit: BBC
Never mind the Brannicks, here’s
Bloodlands. BBC One’s new Sunday night drama is a knotty Northern Irish crime thriller, impressively created by debutant screenwriter Chris Brandon. He was mentored by executive-producer Jed Mercurio, TV’s reigning king of suspenseful action thanks to his blockbuster series Line of Duty and Bodyguard.
Four-parter Bloodlands is similarly dense, detailed, laden with twists and well worth unpacking - and will also warm us up nicely for AC-12 s eagerly awaited return.
So who is mythical assassin Goliath? What did he do to that nice Jimmy Nesbitt’s wife? Why has he suddenly resurfaced after 22 years? And why are we assuming it’s a “he”? Here are the main talking points from an explosive opening episode…
Introduction
Arbitration has long been valued as an entirely voluntary
process. In an ideal international commercial arbitration equally
sided parties may freely decide to arbitrate as well as agree on
innumerable options of how exactly possible disputes shall be
resolved: institution or ad hoc arbitration, seat and language of
arbitration, venues and means of proceedings, number and
description of arbitrators, allocation of costs, etc.
Enjoying such procedural freedom, parties frequently decide that
one party saves the option to refer disputes either to arbitration
or to state court whilst the other party is entitled to bring the
disputes exclusively to state court.