Law & Order: UK (TV Series) Unsafe (2009) User Reviews

Tremendously good, except for the ending

[thecrippledmediaenthusiast · 9/10 · 26 February 2021]

This really is a tremendously good episode due partially by the good writing but maybe even more so because of the great performances of both Ben Daniels (Steel) and Iain Glen (Slade). My complaint is in the ending. It felt rushed and anti climatic, I wanted to see Steel and Slade go head to head again in a hearing. In fact I would have loved if Slade had lost (therefore Steel keeping his job), but was still a free man.

This is far from over, Mr. Steel!

[Mrpalli77 · 9/10 · 19 October 2017]

An old man was sifting Thames bank in order to find something valuable with a metal detector: he found a gold watch together with a human skeleton. Detectives soon realized it is related to a missing person who was declared dead nine years before and a man (Iain Glen) had just been convicted for the murder. By chance the prosecutor at this time was the actual prosecutor Steel but there are many things to be cleared: the victim was shot in the skull, the killer didn't slide his throat as was presumed at the time; besides the murder place was not Chelsea but Tower Hamlets where the body is located. The convicted man managed to obtain a retrail thanks to his law knowledge (he have been studying laws during all this time spent behind bars). Steel struggle to find out further evidences in his support, but it's a long road and time is a wasting.

This episode displays how much been an educated person counts. The perp was able to set prosecutor up due to his reading time in the joint, where he had a lot of time to organize his revenge.