A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose, and as yet more horrific murders take place, the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax, this television movie introduced the charismatic, dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc), a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Also starring Hywel Bennett as Doctor Lewis, the feature-length drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed, darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004.
Peter Edwards
Director
Hywel Bennett
Dr. Gareth D. Lewis
Philip Madoc
DI Noel Bain
Sue Jones-Davies
Mary Lewis
Robin Davies
John Hammond
Margaret John
Sarah Hammond
Nicola Beddoe
Cath Rowlands
Geraint Lewis
DS Carwyn Phillips
Sharon Morgan
Margaret Edwards
Huw Garmon
Dewi James
Ffion Wilkins
Hannah Bain
Nicholas Ros
DC Mal Evans
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