Well this could had been an episode of The Sweeney or Special Branch. Van Der Valk comes to London as Arlette wants a shopping weekend break in the city. Unfortunately on the plane bound for London, a man dies and it is homicide.
As the death took place in Dutch airspace in a Dutch plane. The police are happy to give Van der Valk the job to investigate.
It is a case of who killed a famous clairvoyant on the plane. It could be one of three people including a nun.
However Arlette finds someone impersonating the victim in the airport hotel and they are soon found dead, knifed to the heart.
Arlette is not happy and Van der Valk has a busman's holiday.
Bob Hoskins features as an ex con who the clairvoyant was visiting to see to help him out in his wrongful conviction. Their is a bent copper in the background. The police chief investigating at the British end tells Van der Valk that he would always take the word of an ex copper over the word of an ex con. You can guess that would turn out well for him!
A Welsh policeman is seconded with Van der Valk. You know he is Welsh as he listens to Welsh nationalistic songs in his car. There is also a bit of cockney rhyming slang to confuse Van der Valk.
Apart from future Hollywood royalty. Writing royalty is involved here. Acclaimed novelist Patrick O'Brian, author of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World wrote this episode.
As the death took place in Dutch airspace in a Dutch plane. The police are happy to give Van der Valk the job to investigate.
It is a case of who killed a famous clairvoyant on the plane. It could be one of three people including a nun.
However Arlette finds someone impersonating the victim in the airport hotel and they are soon found dead, knifed to the heart.
Arlette is not happy and Van der Valk has a busman's holiday.
Bob Hoskins features as an ex con who the clairvoyant was visiting to see to help him out in his wrongful conviction. Their is a bent copper in the background. The police chief investigating at the British end tells Van der Valk that he would always take the word of an ex copper over the word of an ex con. You can guess that would turn out well for him!
A Welsh policeman is seconded with Van der Valk. You know he is Welsh as he listens to Welsh nationalistic songs in his car. There is also a bit of cockney rhyming slang to confuse Van der Valk.
Apart from future Hollywood royalty. Writing royalty is involved here. Acclaimed novelist Patrick O'Brian, author of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World wrote this episode.