A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town The police are baffled the towns inhabitants are panicstricken A serial killer is on the loose and as yet more horrific murders take place the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax this television movie introduced the charismatic dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain Philip Madoc a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match Also starring Hywel Bennett as Doctor Lewis the featurelength drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004
