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Dalgliesh Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2021 - 2021
Episode 1
Shroud for a Nightingale - Part One
Mon, Nov 1, 202160 mins
Crime drama based on PD James' best-selling novels about Inspector Adam Dalgliesh, starring Bertie Carvel. In January 1975, a student nurse dies during a training demonstration and Dalgliesh is sent to investigate, accompanied by his partner DS Masterson. With poisoning confirmed as the cause of death Dalgliesh questions several of the nurses, and also has a case of blackmail on his hands.
Episode 2
Shroud for a Nightingale - Part Two
Mon, Nov 1, 2021
A recent death on the hospital wards becomes of interest to Dalgliesh, as he investigates the behavior of several of the nurses at Nightingale House. Masterson tells Dalgliesh that Dettinger recognized one of the senior nurses as Irmgard Grobel, a woman found guilty of murdering 122 Polish prisoners by lethal injection.
Episode 3
The Black Tower - Part One
Mon, Nov 8, 2021
Invited privately by father Michael, who wanted some suspicion investigated, inspector Dalgliesh arrives in the desolate coastal Dorset home run by estate owner 'brother' Wilfred Antsey, who informs him his chaplain died two weeks ago. Dalgliesh still stays to check out the general questions about the earlier still death of a grumpy resident whose wheelchair crashed down a cliff after he sent dogsbody Dennis Lerner away.
Episode 4
The Black Tower - Part Two
Mon, Nov 8, 2021
Wilfred Antsey's community is in deep financial trouble, and seems unraveling socially, while he calls a vote to confirm his position as spiritual guide. Dalgliesh digs into various tensions and dirty secrets, including adultery, and finds the separate 'dark tower' building the site of relevant problems, including a hanging and its arson.
Episode 5
A Taste for Death - Part One
Mon, Nov 15, 2021
Dalgliesh, Masterson and the new detective Kate Miskin, whom Charlie clearly mistrusts, investigate the double cutthroat murder in a London parish church of a local vagrant alcoholic and recently scandal-retired MP Sir Paul Berowne, discovered by a devout but clueless crone and the clever, parental neglected urchin Darren Wilkes, who holds back a button he found on site. The team focuses on the MP's family, headed by Lady Barbara Berowne, including colorful in-laws.
Episode 6
A Taste for Death - Part Two
Mon, Nov 15, 2021
Dalgliesh digs into the Berownes' family secrets. He eventually confronts the killer - and reveals some deeply personal things about himself.
