Taggart - Fatal Inheritance (musings)

 We open up in proper horror movie territory as a young woman opening a gate in heavy rain is slashed to death by an unseen maniac.

We then cut to one of the greatest Taggart openings, as Dr Janet Napier (Hannah Gordon) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Taggart, and the opening theme plays as we watch her slowly escorted out of the building as everyone stops to watch. We've joined in this story when its already seemingly near a conclusion.

Taggart - Hostile Witness

It's Robert Carlyle in an early TV role, in a Taggart with a bigger body count than some Tarantino flicks. But does the story live up to this "before they were a" star billing? Let's find out...

(Spoilers follow, obviously)

Ten seconds in we see a man strangling a woman to death in a Glasgow flat. Well, that was abrupt. "Pauline?" he says, a bit late for chat as she's utterly dead.