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7/10
Forget Ray Winstone and study Ray Sone
TheFearmakers22 June 2021
One of the best episodes of the third season, and also the strangest with an offbeat plot centering on an ultra-religious (Christian Science) dying woman's desperate husband, who makes toy guns that are partially converted into real ones, kind of...

The catch is they don't shoot properly, and in-between is one of the slickest actors to ever guest in a completely unknown, lanky fella named Ray Sone, who, resembling fan-favorite Dr. Who's Tom Baker, plays a unique kind of top-hat-donning, gun-dealing con artist...

He initially sells to punks on the street including a young Ray Winstone... who'd end up playing John Thaw's starring role of Chief Inspector Regan in the horrendous 2013 big screen SWEENEY adaptation... before getting in the kind of mob-centered trouble the otherwise trailing cops, including Regan's faithful young partner George Carter, have to help him out of.
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6/10
Loving Arms
Prismark107 October 2021
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There is something offbeat about this story.

A devout Christian scientist is very ill but des not want medical attention, just prayers.

Her husband Fred agrees to make replica cowboy guns that he thinks are made for the export toy market for Arthur Ward.

It's just Ward is a spiv who is selling the guns in pubs and clubs. The young hoodlums who buy them are sticking up shops.

They are not well made replicas. One fails to fire. One killed a policeman and the person who fired the gun.

Regan takes an interest in the case because he knows the shopkeeper who was held up. It beats looking for stolen toilet rolls.

The Sweeney step up their campaign when the policeman is killed. They even get help from a hoodlum who initially wanted Ward to procure more replicas for them.

There is gritty violence, prayers and a bit of comedy.

Ray Winstone has a small role. A reminder of the awful movie remake he starred in.
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5/10
Middling
Leofwine_draca9 April 2021
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A middling episode about an elderly religious couple who get caught up in the nefarious schemes of an unscrupulous gun seller. I appreciate that they tried doing something different in this one, but the end result is merely so-so.
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