Compassionate attraction
By Morris Dean
Iain Glen seemed perfectly cast as the hard, conniving newspaperman Sir Richard Carlisle to whom it looked for a while that Lady Mary of Downton Abbey might be married. His mad ex-commanding officer Madoc Faulkner stole his episode of Ripper Street with his eloquent delivery of beautifully phrased language designed to seduce Inspector Reid's officer Drake into Faulkner's scheme to redress the ill treatment of ex-soldiers.
