Private investigator Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) is visited by the great nephew of his friend Binky. The young man at first seems to be concerned that Brodie might be ripping the old woman off, but when Brodie and his secretary, Deborah (Zawe Ashton) assure him that not one cent has changed hands, he's even more adamant that Brodie leave Binky alone.
Brodie later discovers that it is this very same nephew who has been following him and hit him in the head.
Unfortunately Binky dies unexpectedly after she had confided in Brodie that someone had been going through her private papers. We are lead to believe at the time that she's crazy, but later it is feasible that she was right and that the person was her great nephew.
The man who lost his daughter is comforted by Brodie at the hospital, but especially when Brodie works out who it was that was seeing the girl and that this person killed her. When he puzzles it all out and confronts the man, he turns him over to police.
Brodie also finds out what happened to the missing girl of 30 years ago, that she is indeed dead at the hands of her oldest sister who has spent her life since that moment as a nun. He finds the body buried in Binky's garden and lets the sisters know. He informs the police as well but refuses to tell the DI how he knew where the body was or who killed her.
The final case is wrapped up as well as the homeless girl who has befriended the grieving father mentioned above turns out to he the girl that he is looking for per the woman at the end of the first episode.
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The Brodie family life is a bit cliched - he insists on taking his daughter on work related visits with him, and of course she tells everything to her mother when he takes her home. On the plus side, the ex-wife's reactions are justified and not super-melodramatic.
Another plus is that they find several more excuses to get Isaacs to take his shirt off. It's so weird to think of Lucius Malfoy as a hunk. I guess reading the Potter books, I always thought of him as skinny git, and the movies staring Isaacs as one servant of He-who-must-not-be-named, didn't do much to change this opinion. Who knew?
Now that Isaacs got the gig starring in Awake, I wonder if there'll be any further series of Cast Histories? I know it's based on a novel, but more shows than novels certainly didn't stop Midsomer Murders. (I'm presuming that Brodie does not die some horrible death in the final episode...)
Also, Brodie ends up bedding the "hot" sister, and I wonder if that is how every episode is going to end, Jackson scores again, or some such.
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