Case Histories Episode 3 - "One Good Turn part 1"

While on his early morning run, Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) sees a body floating in the water. He swims out to it, troubled by visions from his youth when he saw his sister's body pulled from the river.
Based on distinctive ear rings she was wearing, Brodie starts to track down he she might have been, not allowing that the police will find anything. On the way into his office, he stops a man from beating another with a baseball bat which we are led to believe is a road rage incident, well a parking garage rage incident. A bystander interceded by throwing his laptop at the bat-wielding man, and his flash drive and wallet fell out, and were subsequently nabbed by a kid who was at the scene. The flash drive turns to hold the man's unpublished novel, and the boy who took it is the DI's son.
The writer stays with the victim of the beating since the man had suffered a concussion. Through a turn of circumstances ends up going to a hotel with him and drinking a drugged drink.
Brodie talks to a woman who may have worked with the dead woman after seeing a woman crossing the street who looked enough like the dead woman to be ehr sister. This woman was the call girl for some big time real estate developer who is responsible for the housing project where the new DC lives, the new DC for the DI
The second woman turns up dead in a way that is made to look as an overdose, but none of the cops think it is. Later, Brodie is attacked by the man who was the baseball bat wielder and by his Eastern European accent is tied to the dead women, who we know ot be Russian.
Throughout this episode Brodie did not deal with his daughter moving to New Zealand and he has decided to refuse to sign the custodial form needed for the girl to be taken away. We also learn more though flashbacks of what happened after his sister's death - that their older brother Frances blamed himself and tried to hang himself, but Jackson arrived just in time to save his life, but apparently not before brain damage was done, which we know when he visits the brother in an assisted living facility in Yorkshire.
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Brodie is still with Julia, but he's not sure why. They don't seem to have a lot in common. Brodie wants to be supportive but is more focused on his work and daughter than her. But we do see that having a regular girl means no sex scenes with a new woman in the last three minutes of the show.
I probably should have been counting, but they managed to find several more reasons for Isaacs to take his shirt off. Ya, I get it. He's a hottie. Quit rubbing my nose in the fact that he's better looking than I ever dreamed of being. Sheesh.
I wonder if they ever thought of Isaacs for playing James Bond. He has similar looks to Daniel Craig (if you're into that whole 'rugged good looking' kind of thing). I've seen Isaacs in fewer things than I've seen Craig, but I think Isaacs has the chops to do it. He may be too old now to take over after Craig. Oh well. Just a thought.