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7/10
Bullying
gridoon202428 August 2011
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A skeleton is discovered at the bottom of a lake. Based on his possessions that were buried with him, DCI Janine Lewis and her team link the corpse to a man who is currently confined in a drug rehabilitation center. It turns out that this man and his three fishing buddies were once robbed and humiliated at that lake by the dead man and his partner - could this be a revenge killing? And was the death (also by drowning) of one of the buddies one year earlier really an accident?

Bullying is indeed at the heart of this episode (besides the incident in the past that marked the lives of the six characters involved, Janine's son is facing a similar situation at school, and even Butchers is starting to get a little fed up with Shap's constants jokes about his weight), and the writer seems to have a pretty accurate psychological insight into the subject. Although the killer's identity may not be that hard to guess, realizing where he is now is a bit trickier. *** out of 4.
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9/10
The bully always has to pay his debts
Dr_Coulardeau15 June 2008
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This episode is all about bullying. The DCI's younger son gets bullied at school. The male nanny, by the accent an au pair foreign probably European young man, takes over at one point and makes the child break his promise to be satisfied with an apology and take some good old punching back payment from the two bullies. The police case is just that twenty years later. A band of students have a fishing club and one is weaker, so he is victimized by the others till he decides to take his vengeance, instead of leaving the group at the time of the bullying (quite a weak point about this plot: why in the world did he stick to that group?) and he becomes a serial killer who is one-minded and determined. The case can only be a deep psychological profiling investigation, unluckily our DCI is not too much of a profiler so the case is kind of messy and they save the last bully of the fishing group by the scruff of the neck of a lucky strike. But that's the end of the third series. They will take some laborious and active vacation and review their profiling manual for next year.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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