Silent Witness (TV Series) A Special Relationship: Part 2 (2018) User Reviews

Very good, but who uses Bing?!?

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 23 January 2018]

After Matt's curious disappearance Nikki is left confused and upset, but determined to work out What's going on. Fergus is tormented by his past, and Thomas has found common ground with Rosie.

So the writers have it in for Nikki, she doesn't have a lot of luck, buried alive, held at gun point, kidnapped, shunned, now unlucky in love, give the girl a break. Seems like the writer was having a pop at the current American leadership through the show, I sensed a bit of a U.S. niggle.

Jefferson Hall had impressed in the first episode, Fergus was such an intriguing character, once again he was very strong in the role. Michael Landes was good, character was ok, in this episode it felt like he was there purely to lift Nikki. Simon Bubb stole the show as Peter, a great performance.

It was a very good conclusion, if I'm honest I'd say I thought the start was a little slow, but when it got going it was fantastic. A very different story for the show it felt like it could have been penned by John Le Carre.

Another One Bites the Dust

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 19 May 2019]

If anyone deserves a little happiness, Nikkie certainly does. Like many TV heroines, she has been stabbed, kidnapped (numerous times), buried alive, has men she loves killed, and on and on. The guy who she falls for this time has issues with his career. Will he see her again. Every time one of these guys shows up, we never see him again. To stay on the show, she can't leave London. All that relationship stuff aside, this is a good story. Something took place in Mali in Africa and there is a ring of possible evidence. There is a good deal of tension here and it works quite well. The plot is sophisticated. The U.S. government comes off rather badly (let's see. Who's in office?).

Nikki gets involved with a diplomat after the murder of a member of the US embassy staff

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 27 January 2018]

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

When the aide to the US ambassador is murdered in London it looks like an act of terrorism but there are some odd aspects to the case; most notably the fact that the body has been moved and posed. As the investigation gets underway Matt Garcia, the US Embassy's deputy chief, gets close to Nikki and invites her to an event at the embassy where she meets a respected US pathologist who has been involved in charity work in Africa. Soon afterwards she too is murdered and posed. Post mortems suggest that both victims had been suffering from the same tropical parasite; they had both been in Mali at the same time and it is possible that the killer is motivated by something that happened in Africa... something the US authorities aren't keen to disclose. Suspicion falls on a former member of the RAF who has been suffering from psychotic episodes but when Garcia disappears while the suspect is in custody it looks as though somebody else must be involved.

This was a really good story even if it did have quite a few clichés; most notably the US not wanting to share much information, some of which made sense and some that just seemed to be there to add a bit of tension. We also have Nikki getting involved with Garcia... at least we don't have the cliché of him being the killer or ultimately dying. There are plenty of tense moments and the killer and his motives are far from obvious. Emelia Fox does a fine job as Nikki takes centre stage and guest stars Michael Landes and Jefferson Hall impress as Garcia and the troubled suspect Fergus Weir. Overall a fine episode; it is good that Nikki appears to be over what happened in Mexico last season.

Did they really miss that???

[fritha-85352 · 8/10 · 4 June 2020]

Good show, well developed story Blooper: Nikki locked in bathroom. Door opens inward. Why did the perp jam the chair against the bedroom surface of door????

nice story, just enough intrigue

[frieda-92366 · 9/10 · 7 December 2022]

Best story they have had in a while. Although I thought the US President assassinations tie-in was rather a stretch. If someone was out killing because of a US military action cover-up, why not get on with the killing. Why would they need the cryptic symbolic references? And why kill the little guys or a diplomat -- why not just assassinate another president or the mlitary leaders?

Still, it worked on the whole. And why don't the writers pick on someone besides Nikki? Why isn't Clarissa stabbed, buried alive, knocked over the head once in a while? And I thought Nikki should have married her love interest here and gone to the U. S. with him before this show kills her off.

Beautiful interior scenes.

The Yanks are In Town

[neil_davison-354-77074 · 3/10 · 25 October 2021]

Seems the So called Superior Race (the Yanks) are doing what they always do by taking over everywhere they go it seems in this one as it's always their Rules even in our Country but my biggest Gripe is Nicky seems to be becoming a bit of a Bike lately (UK Terminology for Someone who sleeps around) and for a Pathologist her recall of the events after Sleeping with the American are Shockingly bad. Every episode is becoming the Nicky Show and it's getting Tedious. Come on writers get back to how this show used to be.