Messiah (TV series)

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Television series
German title Messiah
Original title Messiah
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Year (s) since 2001
length 120-180 minutes
Episodes 5 (11) in 5 seasons
genre Crime series
Theme music Tom Waits - Lullaby
idea Boris Starling
production BBC Northern Ireland
music Michel Colombier,
Srdjan Kurpjel & Marios Takoushis
First broadcast May 26, 2001 on BBC One
German-language
first broadcast		 January 13, 2003 on ZDF
occupation

Main actor:

Ken Stott
DCI Redfern “Red” Metcalfe (Seasons 1-4)
Marc Warren
DCI Joseph Walker (Season 5–)

Supporting cast:

Michelle Forbes
Susan Metcalfe, wife, deaf (seasons 1-3)
Kieran O'Brien
Eric Metcalfe, brother (season 1,2)
Frances Gray
DS Kate Beauchamp (Seasons 1-3)
Neil Dudgeon
DI Duncan Warren (Seasons 1-4)
Maxine Peake
DS Vickie Clarke (Season 4)
Marsha Thomason
DS Mel Palmer (Season 5–)
Daniel Ryan
DI Terry Hedges (Season 5–)

Messias (original title: Messiah ) is a British crime series that is produced in loose succession by the BBC Northern Ireland , but mostly takes place in England .

General

The crime series now includes five episodes (German first broadcast by ZDF ):

  • Messiah (148 'GB 2001, two-part)
    • The First Murders / Time of Reckoning (January 13 / January 20, 2003)
  • Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine (180 'GB 2002, two-part)
    • Vengeance / Hour of Retribution is Mine (March 13 / March 20, 2005)
  • Messiah: The Promise (180 'GB 2004, two-part)
    • Under the sign of fear / death eradicates all guilt (February 13 / February 20, 2006)
  • Messiah: The Harrowing (180 'GB 2005, two-part)
    • City of Sorrows / The Nine Circles of Hell (September 12 / September 13, 2009)
  • Messiah: The Rapture (120 'GB 2008)
    • The seven characters (May 7, 2009 (German first broadcast VOX ))

The basis for the films is the novel Messiah by Boris Starling . So far, all parts of the series have in common that the investigators try to catch a serial killer.

action

The focus of the series is in the first four double episodes of the investigator “Red” Metcalfe. Other main characters in the first four parts are Kate Beauchamp, Duncan Warren and Metcalfe's wife Susan.

The first murders / time of reckoning:
a serial killer cruelly kills adult men, the only connection between the murders: instead of their tongue, the victims have a silver spoon in their mouths. Later it becomes clear: The dead have the same first names as the twelve apostles and the chosen method of death corresponds to how the apostles themselves died. The murderer does this because he thinks he is a new messiah .

Mine is the revenge / hour of retribution:
a serial killer tries to murder everyone who was involved in his father's mistaken imprisonment.

In the sign of fear / death eradicates all guilt:
The plot begins with a prison riot in which Kate Beauchamp is seriously injured and almost killed and a prisoner is burned alive. In the further course the participants in the uprising passed away one after the other.

The Harrowing:
Metcalfe and his team must catch a perpetrator who commits his murders along the lines of the Divine Comedy by Dante .

The Seven Characters:
After Metcalfe retires, DCI Joseph Walker will succeed him along with DS Mel Palmer and DI Terry Hedges. After an assignment in the Middle East, DCI Walker and his team have to catch a serial killer in London who gruesomely murders his victims using the Seven Signs of the Apocalypse.

Award

Messiah was awarded the Golden Nymph in the Outstanding Drama Series category at the 2002 Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo in Monaco .

Ranks

  1. ↑ DCI (also: DCI) stands for: Detective Chief Inspector , a rank of the British police, which corresponds to our criminal or police chief inspector
  2. ↑ a b DS (also: D.Sgt.) Stands for: Detective Sergeant , a rank of the British police
  3. ↑ DI (also: DI) stands for: Detective Inspector , a rank of the British police

The ranks of the British Criminal Police, which increase with increasing tasks, are usually:

  • Detective Constable, Sergeant, Inspector, Chief Inspector, Superintendent, Chief Superintendent, ...

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