Season 5 • Episode 4
LatestWhen a 15-year-old girl is found murdered, a pedophile living alone in the forest is easy to blame. But Bain knows that simple answers aren’t always the right ones, and he steps in to help a young colleague solve the case.
A Mind to Kill is a police detective series set in Wales, UK. It was developed from a 1991 pilot which starred Philip Madoc as DCI Bain, and Hywel Bennett. The series ran from 1994 to 2004 and first aired as Yr Heliwr on S4C, the Welsh language TV channel, before being broadcast on the UK Network channel, Channel 5. The series was filmed in English and in Welsh, with each scene being shot first in one language and then in the other. It has since been dubbed into more than a dozen languages and shown all over the world. The 21 episodes have been divided into 3 series which are now available on DVD. The pilot episode is also available on DVD.
Acting
Philip Madoc's world-weary, magnificent restraint.
Production
Dual-language filming — same scene, two souls.
Cinematography
Wales as a character: grey, wet, unforgiving.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
S4C's mandate to produce Welsh-language content created this unique bilingual experiment, essentially two shows for the price of one production.
Madoc reportedly preferred the Welsh takes, finding the language's cadence suited Bain's internal rhythms — watch both and decide if he's right.
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