First broadcast 15th April 2002.
After a playwright changes dialogue in her play just days before its opening, she is found brutally stabbed with other murders to follow.
James McAvoy - Gowan Ross
Naomi Frederick - Elizabeth
Ronald Pickup - Sir Stuart Stinhurst
Yvonne O'Grady - Joy
Jonathan Firth - Rhys Davies Jones
Camilla Power - Joanna Sydeham
Idris Elba - Robert Gabriel
Julian Wadham - David Sydeham
Sharon Small - DS Barbara Havers
Nathaniel Parker - DI Thomas Lynley
Don Gallagher - Inspector Macaskin
Gary Cross - Sergeant Lonan
Lesley Vickerage - Helen Clyde
Ravin J. Ganatra - Forensic Pathologist
Ron Donachie - John Ross
Barbara Horne - Solicitor