![]() How does a good person end up in a situation like this? The fact that this story is running parallel to Grieff’s suggests that Tucci’s character may also be a good person who found himself in an impossible situation. Harry’s wife, Mary, gets involved, and things quickly unravel and spiral. Harry does the only thing he can think to do, which is: Hold Janice captive until he can prove to her that the thumb drive did not belong to Ben. The predicament: A good person, Harry, has accidentally assaulted his son’s math tutor, and if she escapes the basement, she will ruin his son’s life. Harry tries to talk Janice out of going to the cops, and their argument is so animated that Harry accidentally pushes Janice down the basement stairs. ![]() Ben will be arrested, and even if it’s eventually proven that the child porn did not belong to Ben, his reputation and life will be ruined by the accusation. It’s clear that if Janice leaves the house, she’ll go to the police. Harry has to protect his verger, so he can’t tell Janice the truth, and when Harry tries to claim that the thumb drive is his own, Janice refuses to believe him. Harry sees what the thumb drive actually contains, and realizes that Janice believes his son is a pedophile. Janice opens up the drive and discovers heinous child porn on it.īen, who doesn’t know what’s on the thumb drive, admits to being the owner of the thumb drive before leaving the house. Harry takes the thumb drive home and it inadvertently comes into the possession of Ben, who gives it to his tutor, Janice (Dolly Wells) to place a file on it. One day, Harry is given a thumb drive by his verger, Edgar (a verger, for the non-Brits, is a caretaker for the church) that we’re meant to believe contains porn on it because Edgar has urges that he cannot control. He, his wife Mary (Lyndsey Marshal), and his son Ben (Moffat’s real-life son, Louis Oliver) are a close-knit and loving family. Meanwhile, Tennant plays Harry Watling, a clever vicar with a randy sense of humor who is not above making fun of his own teenage son for watching porn. “I don’t want to die,” he reasons, “but neither did my wife.” We don’t understand why he murdered his wife, but we’re left to believe that his reasons weren’t altogether malicious. He’s scared of his execution, but he isn’t appealing his sentence, either. ![]() He solves cases on the outside from inside of prison - and he does so brilliantly - and wants to do some good with the last few weeks he has left. Grieff murdered and decapitated his wife for reasons that are unclear, but all the same, in the weeks ahead of his execution, he only takes on cases from morally upstanding people. ![]() Tucci’s character, Jefferson Grieff, is a prison inmate, but he’s also a former criminology professor, so here he’s basically death-row Sherlock Holmes, and his Watson is Dillon Kempton, a serial killer on death row who has a photographic memory, and acts as Grieff’s assistant. Inside Man - developed by Steven Moffat - is heavy, but it is decidedly not dreary. Finding out that Tennant plays an English vicar and Tucci a death-row inmate, however, nearly put me off, because I assumed it would be one of those dreary, heavy British dramas. I decided to check on Netflix’s Inside Man - a coproduction with the BBC - for the same reason most people will: David Tennant and Stanley Tucci.
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