This is another cold case for the eponymous detective – the 1984 gunpoint kidnapping of heiress Cat Grant (Julia Brown) and her two-year-old son outside a Fife chippy. They’ve not been seen since, although Cat’s car key has recently turned up in the possession of a drug dealer whose bullet-ridden corpse has just been retrieved from a nearby quarry.
Julia Brown as Cat Grant (Photo: Mark Mainz/ITV/World Productions)
In the present day, the newly promoted Karen (Lauren Lyle) has personal matters to contend with – when to reveal her amorous relationship with colleague DS Phil Parhatka (Zach Wyatt), along with some of the more unevolved attitudes of her male superiors. There’s none of the knuckle-dragging sexism of Prime Suspect, but certain attitudes still linger. Upon employing a new female colleague, for example, her boss remarks that “it might be good for you lot [ie women] to send the ladder back down”.
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In any case, Emer Kenny has written the role for herself – and why not? It’s surely one of the perks of being an actor-screenwriter.
Emer Kenny as River Wilde and Lauren Lyle as Karen Pirie (Photo: Mark Mainz/ITV/World Productions)But the star attraction of Karen Pirie is, well, Karen Pirie. With her almost trademark blonde bob, Lyle’s detective is relatable, surprisingly normal and engagingly un-hard-bitten for a TV cop. With her Doc Martens and cuffed jeans, she certainly doesn’t go in for power dressing, and keeps her hands in her pockets while visiting Sir Broderick after her boss had advised her to “bend the knee”.
‘Karen Pirie’ continues next Sunday at 8pm on ITV1
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