New regular cast member Jason Wong makes his Silent Witness debut in this week’s doubleheader, Bad Love. <\/p>
Silent Witness returned for the second new storyline of series 24 tonight \u2013 marking the debut of Jason Wong<\/a> as brand new regular character Adam Yeun. Prior to the episode, Wong had told RadioTimes.com<\/a><\/strong> that Adam could \u201csometimes rub off the wrong way\u201d on the other characters, and we certainly got plenty of glimpses of that friction from the very beginning of tonight\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n In his first scene, Silent Witness<\/a> newcomer Adam rather flippantly referred to a dead body as \u201cmeat\u201d, which got him off to the worst possible start, while Jack was particularly bad-tempered with him throughout the episode \u2013 not least when he brought his typically hyperactive three-year-old son to work. Let\u2019s hope that Adam can gel with the rest of the team before the series is finished because, as it stands, their somewhat frosty working relationship probably isn\u2019t ideal when it comes to cracking cases.<\/p>\n And the team certainly have a case to crack in this episode. The victim in question is swimming instructor Laura Jennings, who, at the start of the episode, was bashed over the head with a baseball bat in her own home. And by the end of this instalment, it becomes very clear that the case goes rather deeper than it had originally appeared \u2013 with two more bodies found in the garden of a suspect. That suspect, Tim Garrick, is a former schoolmate of the deceased and apparently recently dated her, although he didn\u2019t appear himself during the episode. It seems likely we\u2019ll see plenty of him tomorrow in the conclusion of this double-header.<\/p>\n Anyway, there are plenty of suspects that we did<\/em> see in tonight\u2019s episode, including a rather enigmatic bus driver by the name of Frank Johnson (Jack Deam). Frank originally emerged on the radar of the Lyell team and investigating officer Meredith Hughes (Caroline Sheen) when they discovered a text that had been sent to him from Laura\u2019s phone, containing an image of a positive pregnancy test. When they arrived to question him, he immediately told them that \u201cit\u2019s not what it looks like\u201d and although the team were understandably skeptical about this, on this occasion it turned out to be true: Frank had secretly been running a sperm bank out of his garage, and Laura had been one of his clients.<\/p> Coupled with the fact that he also had an alibi for the night of Laura\u2019s murder, Frank\u2019s role in the death appeared to have been ruled out at that stage, but his role in the episode was far from over. Later, we see his wife react with fury when she discovers the bank, and then, in the episode\u2019s final scene, Frank is seemingly beaten to death \u2013 or at least near death \u2013 while strolling through an underpass. The suggestion is that this is the same murderer who killed Laura, but it remains to be seen quite what the motive might have been.<\/p>\n Anyway, we also had a wonderfully smarmy turn from Patrick Baladi to enjoy in this episode as former copper Ron Radford, one of Laura\u2019s exes. It seems likely that Ron is something of a red herring \u2013 he\u2019s way too obvious to be the episode\u2019s real big bad \u2013 but there\u2019s certainly something unsettling about him, especially given he\u2019d broken into Laura\u2019s house to install spyware on her computer. The question is, was he just a jealous ex, or is there a more specific reason he was wanting to keep an eye on Laura? My suspicion would be the latter.<\/p>\n Then we have Simon Gribben, the care home worker played by Lewis Gribben. Simon appears to have an extremely unhealthy fixation with the Trask family \u2013 the children of whom were some of Laura\u2019s swimming pupils, and the grandmother of whom is his favourite resident at the care home \u2013 but as to his role in the bigger picture, that remains a mystery at this stage. Towards the end of the episode, we saw him break into the Trasks\u2019 home, and wave at the younger child in a rather creepy fashion \u2013 it will be interesting to see how this all ties together in tomorrow\u2019s concluding part.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Adam\u2019s arrival wasn\u2019t the only reason for Jack\u2019s rather cantankerous mood in tonight\u2019s episode \u2013 there was also some new Hodgson family drama. A teenage girl, Cara (Rhiannon Jones), arrived at the Lyell claiming to be Jack\u2019s niece \u2013 with a lovely scene that saw Adam translate for her using British Sign Language. This revelation leads to two great scenes: one which sees Jack confront his jailed brother Ryan (Owen McConnell), and one that sees him have a discussion with his father Connor (Richard Durden) during which it is revealed that Jack could actually be Cara\u2019s father himself. There are certainly lots of intriguing plot strands to tie up in tomorrow\u2019s second part\u2026<\/p>\n New regular cast member Jason Wong makes his Silent Witness debut in this week’s doubleheader, Bad Love. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4313,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/silent-witness-episode-3-recap-and-review-a-new-face-at-the-lyell-and-hodgson-family-drama-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/silent-witness-episode-3-recap-and-review-a-new-face-at-the-lyell-and-hodgson-family-drama-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/silent-witness-episode-3-recap-and-review-a-new-face-at-the-lyell-and-hodgson-family-drama-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/silent-witness-episode-3-recap-and-review-a-new-face-at-the-lyell-and-hodgson-family-drama-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/silent-witness-episode-3-recap-and-review-a-new-face-at-the-lyell-and-hodgson-family-drama-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/silent-witness-episode-3-recap-and-review-a-new-face-at-the-lyell-and-hodgson-family-drama-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/silent-witness-episode-3-recap-and-review-a-new-face-at-the-lyell-and-hodgson-family-drama-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"New regular cast member Jason Wong makes his Silent Witness debut in this week's doubleheader, Bad Love.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/4312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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