This series started so well but just fell apart ending with this 2 part story.
As with the previous 2 part story the characters were just so uninteresting and I couldn't have cared less about any of them.
The acting was awful and the scene in the church at end was just embarrassing it was so bad.
The character of DS Charles Masterson was a huge mistake. His whole attitude was just so unacceptable and not in keeping with the original stories.
Although a casting for tick in the box purposes, DS Kate Miskin would have been perfectly acceptable as Dalgleish's assistant, but then we wouldn't have had the misogyny, racism and homophobic remarks from Masterson.
Which leads me to Dalgleish's diatribe on racism and sexism. Why? He wasn't talking to Masterson, the screenwriter was preaching to the viewers through Dalgleish.
A couple of scenes later we have Masterson making racist comments which I though were deemed inappropriate these days.
What hypocrisy. You can't have it both ways. This isn't real life, it is a drama with written scripts, so stop preaching something one minute then do the opposite the next.
Yes, there was a warning at the beginning that the drama contained highly offensive language, what I want to know is .... Why is it allowed in the first place?