Prey

2014
7.2| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he is arrested and charged.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
jogreaves-22782 I really enjoyed this series but wondered about this part of the script in series 2. Laughed rather too long. Not sure if it was meant to be funny. There are some negative comments on here but I really found it entertaining.
lougarry33 ***SPOILERS AHEAD***Oh dear, BasicLogic, you do seem to have misunderstood a lot. I just saw this tonight and it seemed pretty straightforward.I agree the inexperienced acting SIO, Reinhardt, was too quick to condemn Farrow - and she later acknowledged this herself - but otherwise most of your "plot holes" are nothing of the sort.When Farrow identified the body found in a shallow grave on the moor he discovered that the victim's name had come up in an old enquiry, so he retrieved the relevant floppy disks from archived records to look through. He had been invited to spend the evening at his ex- wife's house (which he had once shared with her) to spend time with his children and whilst there he got his old desktop PC with a floppy disk drive down from the loft to go through the disks. Lomax's name came up on the disks. He then had an argument with his ex-wife over her dating, punched the wall and left the house in a rage, leaving the disks behind him. He returned to the house to retrieve the disks later. Given the circumstances, he would hardly have called ahead as she would have told him to stay away. After receiving no response to his knock he let himself in with his key to find his ex-wife dying.There was no plan to kill Farrow's family. Dale Lomax broke in only to retrieve the floppy disks. The child, Max's, death was an accident - he fell down the stairs when he ran from the intruder. Abi saw his body and Dale and began screaming and Dale's attack on her was an unplanned response. As to where Finn was - that I can't remember. Possibly on the top bunk with headphones on. Everyone thought Farrow had killed Abi, and Finn had heard them arguing and seen Farrow lose his temper earlier in the day so it's unsurprising that he too thought his father may be responsible.The floppy disks contained details of corrupt dealings between Farrow's partner/friend, Devlin, boss, McKenzie, Lomax and the dead man.Devlin, the friend/partner, wasn't Abi's new boyfriend, but had had a fling with her years previously. Farrow didn't go to Devlin's house: he went to Topher Lomax's to try to track down the floppy disks. (When he and Devlin questioned Lomax, whose name cropped up in the old casefile, Topher threatened his family so was an obvious first suspect in Farrow's investigation.) Devlin then turned up there too. Not sure why he didn't realise the front door had been forced - maybe he just assumed it was always left unlocked.Sadly, it does seem that at least one viewer was indeed a moron. That'd be you, dude. For Pete's sake don't try watching anything with a complex plot, mate.
daveraybould It started out with a good plot line and a couple of twists but it went downhill fast.Marcus Farrow was supposed to be a decent police officer, smart and savvy.Then this smart officer went bumbling around Manchester leaving clues everywhere and more importantly leaving his finger prints at crime scenes?It was crazy that he grabbed the knife embedded in his wife's stomach then he left his prints at Tofer Lomax's house.It all became very sloppy overall and then in a 2 minute climax it ended.Very disappointing when it could have been so much better
Tweekums This three part ITV drama opens with a police can crashing and in the aftermath Marcus Farrow, one of the prisoners, escapes. We then flash back to before the events and learn that Farrow is a police officer who is investigating a body found on the moors… the body of somebody who was meant to have left the country many years before. It isn't long before he is being warned off the case and then he returns home to find his wife bleeding to death. He is arrested but protests his innocence. We then get to the point where the story started; he is on the run with his erstwhile colleagues looking for him. Outsider DI Susan Reinhardt leads the inquiry and she is initially fairly sure of Farrow's guilt but his behaviour suggests that he is carrying out his own investigation rather than trying to flee as one would expect a guilty man to do. Farrow does still have a couple of friends on the force that he trusts… and it is these people who pose the greatest danger to him!ITV have made quite a few solid crime dramas recently and this series is among the better ones. John Simm puts in a fine performance as Farrow and Rosie Cavaliero is equally good as Reinhardt. The rest of the cast are pretty good too; especially Struan Rodger who plays elderly villain Topher Lomax… who is threatening even though he is in a wheelchair and needs an oxygen cylinder. The story is gripping from start to finish and it wasn't until the final scene that we learn whether Farrow would be cleared or not. The tone is pretty dark for the most part as it constantly looks as though Farrow will be caught or those that he trusts are precisely the people he should be wary of. Overall this series is well worth watching if you enjoy crime dramas.