Without Motive

So COMPELLING you'll race through this COMPLETE SET
A riveting, thriller, cop series. A serial killer defies being caught, since he is murdering WITHOUT MOTIVE. It drives the cop-team mad in this 2 season (year) series. It plays as a 12 episode mini-series, since all episodes center around the same investigation plot, same cast. Yes, there are plenty of episode subplots of adultery, misadventure, bad-good cop, back-stabbing, relationships, etc. But truly, it's like a 600 min.(10 hr) edge-of-your-seat feature. We watched this 4DVD Complete Series Set, over 3 evenings.
SUBTITLES included. Filmed on story location, Bristol, UK.

A strong cast is headed by DC Jack Mowbray (Ross Kemp) good cop, a bit aggressive, with family & fidelity issues. DCS Henderson (Kenneth Cranham) soon to retire likes the hero limelight. DC Boulter (Jamie Foreman) Jack's mate, but can he be trusted? Sally (Hazel Ellerby) Jack's wife, also unstable due to cop family stress. ACC Stocks (Ian Bartholomew) overall head of the long investigation.
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Procedural of the highest order
David Johnson, DVD Verdict --This decade-old crime series from the U.K. serves up two seasons worth of across-the-pond investigation. Each series contains six episodes and involves one contiguous case.

That case: a serial killer is on the loose butchering women and there doesn't appear to be a connection (hence the title Without Motive). Dubbed "The Bristol Murderer," the perpetrator has the community frozen with fear and the authorities paralyzed with futility. Caught in the middle of all of it is Detective Constable Jack Mowbray (Ross Kemp), a big-shot investigator who's feeling the shockwaves of the killing spree at home, as his family begins falling apart (his marital indiscretions don't help either). Things aren't much better at work as the infectiveness of the department in catching the killer leads to intense political pressure from above and a series of leads that go dead. As the bodies pile up, so do the questions and Mowbray will have to call upon all of his...

Intense police procedural
This set contains both season 1 and season 2 of this drama. You need to see both to get the full punch that this program carries. In 12 episodes, the viewer is allowed to see both the solving of the crime and the emotional toll it takes on the police detectives who are working to solve the case. There is a serial killer loose and no matter how hard the police try, there seems to be no motive or reason why the killer chooses the women he kills. The police must go through all the dry and boring lists looking for some vague factor that ties the victims together. It is pains taking work and no matter how much effort is put into their search, no break is forthcoming. In the meantime, the press and even family members become very vocal in their criticism of the lack of progress in the case. The detectives start to exhibit siege mentality turning to each other and closing out others. It is very interesting to see the toll that such a case takes on all involved.
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