Silent Witness (TV Series) Hippocratic Oath: Part 2 (2007) User Reviews

Very good, an intriguing conclusion.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 7 November 2020]

Does Imogen Westerlake hold the key to the mystery, what is her secret? Nikki's recovering from a nasty knock.

I thought this was a much more engaging episode than the first part, the story developed very well, the characters came to life, and the story unfolded very neatly.

It's a little bleak at times, never been happy seeing children appear in such circumstances, those scenes are a little upsetting. I would have to question how our pathologists keep on wandering into operating theatres, that takes a bit of a stretch.

The identity of the killer was a bit of a disappointment, slightly too obvious from the start.

Natasha Little once again steals the show as Alice, a terrific actress, who made the character very sincere, thoroughly believable.

8/10.

One Mistake

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 22 March 2019]

This whole thing revolves around a careless surgery and a person practicing medicine without a license. There was a baby named Reed who was operated on twice. He died. The master surgeon was the second surgeon. Everything gets mired in a coverup. The guys and Nikki must face the fact that they often must bring in the law, even if it means a setback in medical knowledge. Even if it means the destruction of the reputation of a decent person. Well crafted episode though rather far fetched at times.

But wait....

[keysam-02610 · 8/10 · 4 July 2023]

This was a very entertaining episode. I honestly prefer the ones that end up really being one big connected case and that's how this turns out in the end. I watched it as one 'feature length' episode on one of the newer TV channels and it felt like there had been the odd edit to make it fit a slot that now contained ads, which of course it wouldn't have when it was on the BBC originally. So for example, there's a slightly weird jump cut when Harry is with Alice and he now knows her father is probably the killer. All of a sudden she's rushing off to confront Dad, with Harry right behind her, but we never see the bot where he told her about it. Maybe it was supposed to be clever film making, but it just felt like a bad edit. I don't know which it was in truth.

My main criticism, and the reason for knocking off a point or two, is the abrupt ending. We are left in the dark about what will happen about Alice and the fall out. Will she be struck off, for example? That would seem OTT to me. Most of the fault lies with others, including the hospital which after all didn't carry out the most rudimentary check on Imogen's identity - the check that took Harry seconds. But given Harry's earlier comments about how Alice was basically allowing people to think the worst of her by being so work-focussed that she shut everyone out, I can see her being made the scapegoat by a fearful hospital board, out to save their own skins.

I suppose we have to assume that Harry and Leo are not about to hide what actually led to baby Sam's death either, so it seems likely that incident, the only one where Alice really IS at fault and which has tons of mitigation, may be the one that's used to bring her down.

The point is THEY DON'T TELL US! One more scene, that's all that was needed. But they'd rather go out on the literal bang. Not a good choice, IMO.