Dalziel & Pascoe: Season 6

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Dark secrets rising from the past is the recurring theme of the sixth season of Dalziel & Pascoe, a smart and prickly police series from the BBC. Warren Clarke stars as Andy Dalziel (pronounced, inexplicably, as "Dee-el"), a rough and surly detective superintendent partnered with the smoother and educated Detective Inspector Peter Pascoe (Colin Buchanan). The series, based on novels by Reginald Hill, was probably conceived as a balanced partnership, but Clarke's blistering, magnetic portrayal quickly became the show's axis (plus, Clarke took a hand in producing the show). Three of the four 90-minute episodes grapple directly with Dalziel's own past: a fatal accident from his early days on the force in "Walls of Silence," and a startling revelation by an old flame in "Secrets of the Dead"; and in "Truth & Consequences," Pascoe begins to suspect Dalziel might have dirt on his hands when they investigate a 20-year-old murder. (The fourth story, "Home Truths," concerns a murder that Dalziel refuses to believe is racially motivated, despite pressure from above.) All four are solid, dense, and complex but energetically told, with some clever directorial flourishes (in "Secrets of the Dead," a scene cuts back and forth between Dalziel and Pascoe wrapping a present and a murderer tying up his victim). But the best is "Walls of Silence," in which the death of a troubled young cellist unravels a tapestry of good intentions and unintended consequences. All in all, an excellent season of Dalziel & Pascoe. --Bret Fetzer

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Dalziel and Pascoe: Season Six (DVD)
In season six of this gritty British crime thriller, grumpy old-school copper Andy Dalziel and his well-mannered university-educated partner Peter Pascoe, face more perplexing cases: The perplexing death of a schoolboy, the mysterious murder of a Sikh woman, the unexplained killing of a solicitor, and the perplexing appearance of a skeleton in a former mining town. On top of which, with Pascoe’s wife and daughter now in America, the odd couple find themselves sharing Dalziel's house—a marriage certainly not made in heaven! ]]>, ISBN13: B008645ZXY ISBN10: B008645ZXY Material Type: dvd