In the second part of "One Good Turn", Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) is at the home of the writer, Martin (Adam Godley), the chap who lost his flash drive and wallet when he threw his computer at the guy with the baseball bat. He's there with the police looking at a body he found, that he thinks is Martin until Martin turns up in the crowd calling out to him.
Brodie has tracked down that the man in the coma owns the company that the dead girls worked for and goes to his house, but ends up meeting the man's wife who is still telling everyone that her husband is away - only she and Brodie knows he's in the hospital. From an address he gets from her and from a picture of her husband's employees, he is able to put a name to the face of his attacker, the same man with the baseball bat, and likely where he works with the cleaners/prostitutes.
Brodie is back at his office when his ex, Josie (Kirsty Mitchell), bursts in asking where Marlee (Millie Innes), their daughter is. She blames him, bringing up the parental consent form he has still not signed, while he tells her what to do while he goes looking for the girl. Brodie figures out where she might be and finds her there where they have a little chat about her going away to New Zealand before he takes her home to her mother, whom he gives the signed papers to.
Brodie goes to see Julia (Natasha Little) in her play and afterwards they brake up when she confesses to cheating on him.
The pieces finally come together and Brodie helps everyone get away with as much as they can out of it and avoid getting arrested by the police. He never quite learns the whole truth until the very end when his police detective friend informs him that the man in the coma has died - and putting that together with facts he hasn't shared with her, he knows that the man was killed.
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Yay for breaking up with Julia. Yay for letting Marlee go to New Zealand. Yay for not taking advantage of DI Munroe (Amanda Abbington). Munroe is the only woman we've met in the show so far, not counting the ex whom we know virtually nothing about, who is worth a damn. Sure there are plenty of other women, but they have character flaws, like they cheat on him with creepy old comedians or they kill their brother-in-laws.
Brodie did more actual detective work in this story and had a lot of touching scenes with his daughter. I'm not being ironic or sarcastic here. This second two-part episode was better than the first.
It also added quite a bit more action than the first two-parter, allowing Isaacs to show off his stuff, but then he doesn't, and that's a good thing. Had this been an American series, the tough-guy-ex-cop-ex-military Brodie would either have beat the shit out of the bad guys, or they might have gone a comedic route, where he beats the shit out of the bad guys, and then winces in pain at his hurt hands or something. Instead, it's not showy, he's just trying to defend himself more than anything which explains why he gets beaten with a baseball bat when he's more concerned about protecting his head then wrestling it away from the guy.
Sadly, in ep 4, Isaacs keeps all of his clothes on. ;)
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