When Marc Evans, the director, and I spent the day with Hampshire Police serious crime squad and finding out how rank operated and fitting Colin into that rank, and then adding his personality to the operation, and how he worked within the rank system, was sort of a key to playing the role. Hearing Colin’s stories about his former colleagues and his respect for people, just putting that into place when you see a real group of detectives was massively useful. Met Colin on a number of occasions which was hugely helpful for playing him. How did you prepare to play the role of this senior Metropolitan Police Detective? What Ed (Whitmore- the writer) did with the story is extraordinarily dramatic. I think this case is in a way more dramatic than the Levi Bellfield case in the first series. The first Manhunt had gone so well, and everything about it we were happy with: not portraying the actual detail of the crimes, but the solutions. I was fascinated by the role the last time I played DCI Colin Sutton, and got very invested in the notion of the police to the extent that I now feel a bit defensive if they come under attack in the media, or feel disappointed when a police officer does something disappointing which is flagged up by the media. Why were you interested in taking the role of DCI Colin Sutton again? But when you have got a DNA and you are just trying to find a match to it, it is very hard especially with a criminal who is so meticulous in his planning. What brought about the stalemate of the case I think is that they found the offender’s DNA so early, so everything was invested in trying to match the DNA, with a mass DNA swabbing programme, and that is sort of what confounded them, although it is such golden evidence when it is the right DNA. Coupled with what he perceives as a good dose of tall poppy syndrome, he has got to deal with that as well as trying to get through the case. So you have got the case that needs fixing and you have the dynamics of a team which has been slogging its guts out over a horrible case for a great many years, and not getting anywhere.Īlso they have just had a review before he turned up, so the sense of being supervised or criticised or watched over as they work doesn’t make Colin terribly popular with them.
Then he gets asked to see if he can assist with this 17 year old case which already has a more senior officer at the head of it, but who is not making any headway. But also it makes him a bit of a tall poppy (someone who needs to be cut down to size) in police terms.
To start with Colin has successfully caught Levi Bellfield, and so it is celebrated. There are so many layers to the story because of the time in Colin Sutton’s life when he came to the investigation is central to the story, along with the age of the case.
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