5.049 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestMartin Palmer escapes from police custody and he and Nicklin resume their series of murders. Chen, desperate to prove herself, risks everything to catch the pair.
Thorne is a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010. Based on Mark Billingham's novels, the six-episode serial stars David Morrissey in the title role of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. Part one, Sleepyhead, follows Thorne, who, while investigating a series of attacks on young women, is dragged back into the nightmares of his past as he races to find a killer. Part two, Scaredycat, sees two women murdered within hours of one another near St Pancras station, but in different ways. When a connection is made with two other murders which occurred months before, but also on the same day, Thorne realises two serial killers may be in a macabre partnership.
Acting
Morrissey's thousand-yard stare should be illegal.
Writing
Billingham's plotting: nasty, clever, unsparing.
Direction
Morrissey directs himself into total collapse.
Creators
David Morrissey, Mark Billingham
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Morrissey optioned the novels himself after failing to land another crime role, then hired himself as director.
Thorne arrived at peak 'tortured British detective' saturation—yet Morrissey's wrecked physicality made it feel earned, not cliché.
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