Monroe, Class of '76

[Lydia Leftcoast]

The versatile Robert Carlyle, who starred in both the bucolic Scottish village mystery Hamish Macbeth and the gritty and disturbing Trainspotting, is back as a police detective who becomes obsessed with a man who committed suicide by suddenly abandoning his car at a gas station and running onto a busy highway.

The apparent suicide leaves a cryptic audio tape that suggests that his death is connected with events that occurred among some schoolchildren in 1976, beginning with the murder of a little girl.

Despite his superiors' orders to treat the man's death as just an unexplained suicide, Carlyle's character is determined to figure out the connections hinted at on the tape.

I've seen only the first of the two episodes, but this is a fine example of British mystery storytelling.

[supernova]

1. It's in my queue

It caught my attention too. I'll watch just about anything with Robert Carlyle.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Watch it soon if it's in your Instant Queue

I think it's going away by the end of the month.