After a couple of murders of men who have had their hearts cut out DI Clifford is lost for a lead until he hears of a best selling novel featuring murders with the same modus operandi . He contacts the author a young woman called Natalie who explains that the cutting out of hearts is an old legend involving The Carpathian Eagle
This seems to have split the audience very evenly . It's not necessarily a horror story per se but does give a subtle hint that perhaps the legend involving immortality does actually exist and it's up to the audience to make up their own minds on this . If you don't buy in to this scenario fair enough but also features the age old horror convention that lust filled sex must be punished by death and it is rather amusing watching a number of men out on the sexual prowl get their come uppance and in this respect The Carpathian Eagle is enjoyably mean . It doesn't work as a whodunit because it's revealed very early on who the murderer is but does move at a very brisk pace and does share a lot of common ground with the infamous early 90s thriller BASIC INSTINCT but this episode is a lot more understated and less explicit which is a good thing
The cast work very well and you can believe Anthony Valentine as a conscientious affable detective inspector . Suzanne Danille was an actress being touted as the next big thing and sex symbol when this episode was produced who promptly disappeared as quick as she arrived but she does make a sultry serial klller especially when he dons a wig and put on a daft phony accent . Perhaps most enjoyable of all is seeing Peirce Brosnan in a small role as a jogger and who'd have thought watching this scene he'd be playing James Bond many years later
This seems to have split the audience very evenly . It's not necessarily a horror story per se but does give a subtle hint that perhaps the legend involving immortality does actually exist and it's up to the audience to make up their own minds on this . If you don't buy in to this scenario fair enough but also features the age old horror convention that lust filled sex must be punished by death and it is rather amusing watching a number of men out on the sexual prowl get their come uppance and in this respect The Carpathian Eagle is enjoyably mean . It doesn't work as a whodunit because it's revealed very early on who the murderer is but does move at a very brisk pace and does share a lot of common ground with the infamous early 90s thriller BASIC INSTINCT but this episode is a lot more understated and less explicit which is a good thing
The cast work very well and you can believe Anthony Valentine as a conscientious affable detective inspector . Suzanne Danille was an actress being touted as the next big thing and sex symbol when this episode was produced who promptly disappeared as quick as she arrived but she does make a sultry serial klller especially when he dons a wig and put on a daft phony accent . Perhaps most enjoyable of all is seeing Peirce Brosnan in a small role as a jogger and who'd have thought watching this scene he'd be playing James Bond many years later