![]() That’s right: The cop did it! It turns out Sophie went to pick up her kid from the party but ran into Chris pacing by the pool before anyone saw her. It’s the first time Tom’s seen it, and he immediately identifies its owner: It’s Sophie! (bum-bum- bum!) Nevertheless, Jenny is safely back in her dad’s arms, and it appears everything is over… until Detective Castle (Hannah Arterton) pulls out a pendant found at the crime scene. ![]() “I never wanted to kill her,” Bobby says, in an odd confessional that motivates his suicide but doesn’t explain why he went as far as he did before it. That’s why Helen has Jenny in the first place, but Bobby turns on her when she tells him about her plan to confess.ĭespite Bobby being so committed to hiding his secret that he kills Helen, sets her house on fire, kidnaps Jenny, and is ready to shoot a high school kid in the head, he turns the gun on himself when a (horribly planned) rescue attempt by Tom ( Michael C. Though they covered their tracks at the time, years later Jenny and her boyfriend Chris find out what happened and the guilty parties start trying to cover their tracks. Seeking vengeance and thinking the school was empty, Helen, Bobby, Craig, Rachel (Katy Carmichael), and Sophie (Amanda Abbington) set fire to the building and ended up killing multiple students who couldn’t get out. Why? Well, Helen wanted to come clean about what she, Bobby, and a group of three other kids did decades earlier. ![]() Hall brings a worried, intelligent gravity to the central role, and if the drama doesn’t stretch the actor’s range in its opening hours, we know he’s capable of much more, should later installments of “Safe” require a wider variety of emotional colors from him.Before that, the audience finds out Jenny is alive she’s being held in Helen’s house (Karen Bryson), but she’s soon moved to Bobby’s (Milo Twomey) place after he kills Helen and sets her home on fire. As the drama gains momentum over its first two episodes, Amanda Abbington (“Sherlock”) is excellent as a local detective with her own domestic problems, and Marc Warren is terrific as Tom’s wary, acerbic best friend. It’s a highly watchable, semi-pulpy serial loaded with reveals, clues and cliffhangers, and the core cast is generally quite good. But overall, it tends to avoid the sloppy, meandering tendencies of its more prestige-driven TV brethren. “Safe” takes itself a bit too seriously now and then - portentous music cues occasionally crop up in ways that play up the show’s pompous tendencies. But things begin spinning out of control when a crime occurs, and a resident goes missing. Adults and teens in the community are all hiding secrets, and on the whole, the teens are better at covering their tracks than the grown-ups. In a leafy, safety-conscious subdivision, grieving widower Tom (Hall) is raising two daughters, one of whom is a teenager and increasingly estranged from her dad. It’s essentially a propulsive nighttime soap opera littered with crimes, well-appointed kitchens, and surveillance cameras everywhere. But in its first two episodes, it delivers on what it promises in its taut opening scenes: It’s a slick portrait of one man’s descent into a nightmare, one that threatens to damage the fragile connections within several families. The good news is “Safe” is a plot-driven drama that doesn’t rely all that much on extensive conversation, and what dialogue it does have is workmanlike at best. Hall’s attempt at an English accent is reasonably successful, even if it sounds a bit forced at times.
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