Episode 28: Criminal Record, Fisk, Detective Forst
CRIMINAL RECORD finds two London detectives pitted against each other. They’re working on associated cases, one having to do with a 911 call of a woman fearful that her boyfriend will kill her. But in that call she also reveals that a man in prison for killing his girlfriend is innocent. The two detectives are very different kinds of cops. One is middle aged, old school and believes the end justifies the means. The other, a young African American woman, refuses to accept the questionable tactics that have riddled the police force.
In this Australian workplace comedy Helen Tudor Fisk, a middle-aged recently divorced lawyer tries to jumpstart her life. She’s bright, and well-meaning but a bit of a hot mess. Not much of a people person, Fisk was formerly a contract lawyer. But now she faces challenges when she joins a tiny law firm specializing in wills. Here she’s forced not only to interact with eccentric clients but also to navigate the personalities of the 3 person law firm where her colleagues are as much of a challenge as her clients.
Detective Forst, an unconventional Polish detective, is called to a small mountain community where a series of bizarre, bloody murders are taking place. It all points to a serial killer but these murders also dredge up nightmares which seem to lead to a secret cabal of town elders who might have been Nazi collaboraters. The gruesome crimes also might have links to dark parts of Forst’s own childhood that he has tried to forget.
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