D.C.I. Michael Jardine is hosting the Strathclyde CID Dinner at the Crawford Hotel when the body of the owner is found strangled and dumped in the back lane. A kitchen hand who was behaving strangely immediately becomes the prime suspect. However, he too is murdered before he can be interviewed. So too is the chef after he makes a phone call threatening to blackmail the murderer. All of the victims have had their eyes removed.
Unfortunately for Jardine his girlfriend, an I.T. consultant, becomes a suspect when it is discovered she had an affair with the first victim and the murder weapon is a self locking cable used to tie computer cables.
The storyline takes a brilliant twist when DC Stuart Fraser follows the trail of Eastern European employees who find themselves in a clinic run by a friend of Marsha Erskine - co-owner of the hotel and wife of the first victim. The clinic specializes in organ transplants. What is suspicious is that after being treated for minor complaints all of the patients simply disappear.
This is a clever episode of Taggart and well written.
Unfortunately for Jardine his girlfriend, an I.T. consultant, becomes a suspect when it is discovered she had an affair with the first victim and the murder weapon is a self locking cable used to tie computer cables.
The storyline takes a brilliant twist when DC Stuart Fraser follows the trail of Eastern European employees who find themselves in a clinic run by a friend of Marsha Erskine - co-owner of the hotel and wife of the first victim. The clinic specializes in organ transplants. What is suspicious is that after being treated for minor complaints all of the patients simply disappear.
This is a clever episode of Taggart and well written.