Silent Witness Moment of Surrender: Part 2 (1996– ) Online

I'm still trying to get over the shock of that new music, ultimately I found this episode satisfying, but there is 25% of me that it still baffled, and still has questions, what were those two doing in the garage? and what actually happened to Sally, is that the last of David? I will have to re-watch to clarify. Other then that this was great, the confusions surrounding the couple at the house, and the three randoms were tied up, Julian Rhind Tutt showed what a totally brilliant actor he is, if only they could get him into the show, and we got to see Jack use his martial arts, what could be better?

These comments refer to the whole two part story not just episode two.

This story opens sixteen years ago as a young couple are attacked by three masked individuals. After this prologue we return to the present and Nikki is still affected by what happened to her in Mexico and discusses it with her friend Sally, who works at another forensics lab. Shortly afterwards Sally goes missing and the police suspect her business partner David as they had recently argued. They ask Nikki to help investigate him by getting him a position working alongside her at the Lyell Centre. Soon the team are called out when the body of a man is discovered; at first it looks as if he may have committed suicide but inevitably it isn’t long before it becomes clear that he was murdered. As the story progresses we learn that the dead man was involved in the events we saw in the prologue and it starts to look as though David does indeed have something to hide.

This was a solid return for this long running series. I liked how there was an intriguing prologue that wasn’t referred to again for some time. One could guess that it would be connected to the later cases but how wasn’t too obvious. The question of who killed the dead man and why was interesting but was overshadowed by what happened to Nikki’s friend and what David’s involvement with that was. Julian Rhind Tutt did an impressive job as David; he kept the character nicely ambiguous so it is far from obvious whether he is involved in Sally’s disappearance till the very end when all is revealed. The rest of the cast is also on good form; most notably Emelia Fox who does a fine job as the still troubled Nikki. Overall a good story that left me looking forward to the rest of the series.