this be a wonderful new crime series and bring together three old stalwart of british television ( denis waterman and james bolam and alun armstrong ) a retire detective bring back to help clear up old case and under the leadership of young and career focus amanda redman . the three quirky and irritable old cop make a brilliant team and apply twenty year old detection method in a police force which have move a long way on since then sometimes with effect and at other time to the horror of their senior officer . the three be portray sympathetically and wart and all . there be splendid comic scene and and some very moving one a each of the three have to come to term with grow old and the legacy of their past . at the end of the first six part series ( we be promise a further series next year ) each of the character have develop . widower james bolam can not come to term with his wife untimely death . lothario denis waterman be learn to accept his role a grandfather . and even obsessive alun armstrong be help by his new friend to fight the demon of his past and keep take the medication . while amanda redman have to face the all too familiar conflict between have a life and a career . the story line have be interesting and if rather heavily dependent on the wonder of dna test . but it be the interplay of four of britain fine actor which have make the series unmissable .