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THE GHOST SQUAD
Lucy Beaumont, reviewer
May 24, 2007
Looks like things are going to get dirty for a new girl detective.
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Type Mystery, Drama
Channel ABC
Date Friday May 25
Time 9:20 PM
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Sometimes it seems like the entire British constabulary is divided into two groups: dirty cops and undercover cops. If represented Venn diagram-style, there would be a bit of overlap between the two categories and it would be in that swampy cesspool that you'd find a bunch of TV drama writers with clipboards.
Tonight the ABC presents a deep-cover double-deal with this new offering partnering Murphy's Law. (By the by, has Aunty bought a job lot of British productions that were cancelled after one season, namely this and The Robinsons? Hardly seems worth investing your time in characters who will only be around for eight hours.)
This first episode provides the back story for central character Amy Harris (Elaine Cassidy). We meet her looking cute - actually very cute with glossy, bouncy hair - and clever, getting through an average day and the arrest of a small-time local crook.
But she returns to the interview room and finds the young man beaten to death. As curious faces turn in her direction, it looks like she's in for it. Out of nowhere the grumpy old men of the Independent Police Complaints Commission arrive and put the cop shop in lockdown. No one is allowed in or out and everyone is being watched.
Yet our Amy is allowed a luxurious slow-mo shower in the well-appointed staff changing room. She emerges fresh but finds her blood-soaked and forensically useful uniform missing. Pretty soon it becomes clear she is being set up by her fellow officers and that it's up to her to clear her name.
Damn it, it's impossible not to mention Nancy Drew here. That girl had her 99 steps. This pixie-faced babe has somewhere around 99 scenes in corridors, elevators, stairwells and loos, all captured on jumpy camera. Despite that, the suspense is fairly well generated.
Who can the idealist trust? The complaints investigators, her handsome boss, her best girlfriend, her dodgy colleagues, the mysterious Pete (Jonas Armstrong)? Obviously (otherwise we'd be left with no series) she reveals the true villains, and is asked to join a shadowy undercover operation, The Ghost Squad, thought to have been abandoned long ago. Looks like things are going to get a lot dirtier for this girl detective.
Copyright © 2007. The Sydney Morning Herald.
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