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  1. Sins Of The Father
  2. Death Minister
  3. The Lottery Experiment
  4. The Broken Crystal




Jeff Slade - Michael French

Holly Turner - Chloe Annett




OTHER CRIME TRAVELLER SEASONS
Series 1


OTHER TIME TRAVEL SHOWS
Doctor Who
Journeyman
Goodnight Sweetheart
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes
Daybreak
Timecop
Continuum









Sins Of The Father

An officer from the north heads up a diamond heist operation that sees the diamonds disappear and Slade apparently framed for stealing them, a case very similar to the one that put Slade’s father in prison. Can an on-the-run Slade and Holly go back in time to find enough information to find the true culprit?

The second series of the time travel crime show opens with a plot that is as predictable as they come. It is pretty obvious what has happened and who is responsible. This makes it a bit of a slog getting through to the end, more to see exactly how it all works itself out rather than to solve the mystery of whodunit. Or how.

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Death Minister

When a retired government minister is shot at his home, Slade uses the time machine without Holly’s permission. Already suspicious about Slade’s success rate, his colleagues are watching him closely and certain discrepancies about his whereabouts start to emerge.

A man shot and the only way to solve the crime is to go back in time and watch it happen? There are some serious flashbacks to the first case in the first series. Slade is revealed even more as the selfish, careless character that he is and it becomes harder to see why anyone would have anything to do with him voluntarily. When Holly begs him not to use the machine, which is falling apart under the strain, he simply ignores her wishes and uses it himself without her permission. At least he is not forgiven for this transgression.

The actual mystery is pretty lame and is only the excuse for Slade to misuse the time machine. It takes Holly a ridiculously short time to work it all out when the rest of the team were mystified almost from the start.

It is also not clear why the injuries that Slade incurred whilst in the past disappear upon his return to the present. If a shot leg miraculously heals because the events did not take place in the current timeline then how does he leave blood behind when struck by the minister? The time travel rules become less clear with each passing episode.

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The Lottery Experiment

Slade goes back in time in order to gain Holly the money she needs to fix the machine by winning the lottery. Unfortunately, things get in the way – things like a major gold heist.

Finally, CRIME TRAVELLER gets around to saying something about time, in this case about the immutability of it. Slade didn’t buy a lottery ticket and so could not do so during his day. Instead, he intends for Holly to do it, but things just keep foiling him (faxes out of paper, fire alarms etc). Time, apparently, has an objection to people cheating. This works well enough, the inventive ways in which the message fails to get to Holly is entertaining enough, but then it wimps out at the end and allows Slade his lottery ticket, throwing in a final twist whilst wimping out on the scientific message.

As for the crime drama, well that’s simple enough and though it is not as obvious as some of the others it is straightforward enough.

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The Broken Crystal

Two scientists are killed, one of them in front of Holly and Slade. Investigations lead to an old flame of Holly’s, causing friction between the policing team and perhaps to a man who can be in two places at once.

The solution to this particular mystery isn’t very mysterious at all. In fact, it is obvious enough from a fairly early stage what is going on. It was inevitable enough that Slade and Holly would come up against someone with the same advantages that they have. That it should be an old flame is disappointingly melodramatic, but at least works in story terms. It is also less surprising when you consider that this is the last episode of the series and therefore needs a bit extra in order to push for the next (which never came).

Hence, there is conflict between the two leads, a deadly threat, a nick of time rescue and a ridiculously convenient unlocked door on a supposedly secure facility. None of this proved sufficient and the show was not renewed, mainly for reasons of simply not being good enough to deserve to be.

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