Ashes To Ashes - Episode 4

It’s all spooky-spooky doo this week in Ashes to Ashes! There’s no sign of ghosts but spies a plenty, as the team get involved in a goverment cover up, after a man was murdered.

The episode also delves more into the Price’s and we learn that the murdered man, Martin Kennedy, was blackmailing Caroline Price after Alex’s mother was involved in an affair with dodgy Evan - and Kennedy had the photos to prove it.

But as the team pull in a group of socialists, that Kennedy had recently joined, they get nowhere. It’s only when they crack a code, hidden in Kennedy’s diary, that they get somewhere. They try and retrieve a file, which may prove the socialist group’s suspicions correct, that the government are testing nuclear weapons at Kennedy’s workplace, a government facility, and murdered Kennedy because he had plans to steal it.

Gene and Alex end up locked in an air=tight vault and things look very intimate, or is it just the heat inside the vault? Chris and Ray, fresh from ‘persuading’ the socialist leader to tell them what really happened in her dealings with Kennedy, come to the rescue.

It’s Ray and Chris that steal the show, again! Their brilliant ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine was really funny as was their attempt at ‘spying’ on Gene. Another priceless few moments was Chris taking on board advice from a feminist and Ray’s reaction to the Caroline Price photos! This is precisely what makes Ashes to Ashes as strong as it is. The quality of the writing and the supporting cast is just superb, some shows just concentrate on the main characters and that is why most end up short of quality.

8/10

Next Week: The boys end up in a gay club. Aren’t all clubs in London like that anyway?