The Boy You Were

The episode opens with an elderly woman Sadie (Ann Mitchell) making financial transactions. She is laundering money.

By the end of the episode, Sadie is revealed to be lawyer Edwyn Cooper's (Dominic Cooper) mother.

DCI Brian Boyce goes to Switzerland to find out the names of Swiss bank account holders. Although the country has strict privacy laws, names can be disclosed if terrorism is involved.

A cunning ruse where Boyce gets the names of Edwyn Cooper and Gordon Parry being read out at court. After that Boyce just needs to follow the money trail of these two guys

Only issues is that as a Freemason, senior police officers are protecting Cooper.

Meanwhile John Palmer is investing in timeshares in Spain. It includes making payoffs to make sure things go smoothly. This includes being tipped off by the local police in case Scotland Yard come sniffing about.

I guess libel laws means that even in true life cases you have invent fictional or composite characters. The trouble is Edwyn Cooper is not a real person, but his cohort Gordon Parry is.

It suggests that even the true life story had to be sexed up a little. Unfortunately it is all a bit too dry and dull.

Boyce heads to Switzerland in a bid to learn the names of those that deposited huge sums of money, but he finds The Swiss laws on banking very strict, meanwhile Palmer tries to skip The Country.

So much happening here, that you need to be concentrating, but it is cohesive, tense and dramatic in equal measure, there is almost nothing to fault in this penultimate episode, it really is incredibly watchable.

One thing that's so striking, at every single corner, there is corruption, Boyce is trying to do things cleanly, by the book, but money talks.

The acting has been terrific from start to finish, but two performances really stood out here, Hugh Bonneville really got the chance to shine, he was tremendous, as was Dominic Cooper, who showed his true class.

The production values are terrific, not just the visuals, the clothes and sets, or the music, but the actual vibe, it has taken me straight back to The 1980's.

9/10.