ULTRAVIOLET
Episode three

'Sub Judice'

Synopis & Review by Angela Pollard

Opening scene: a woman goes into an underground car park and is attacked by two men. Next you see the woman stunned and in shock on the ground and the two men dead at her feet.

We then cut to Pearse's bedroom were he seems to have woken from a disturbed sleep saturated in sweat. He rinses his face then stares into the mirror. (Yes he does have a reflection!)

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We then cut to Kirsty standing out side Michael's old place trying to find out were he has moved but no one can help.

Vaughan goes to the police station and collects videos of what occured in the underground car park.

We then cut to Pearse being examined by Angie. She says even I suffer night terrors. Pearse says these are not nightmares but night sweats and they are not psychological. Angie asks if he is sure. She asks if he is suffering any stress at work. Pearse jokingly says, "It's just a desk job". Angie asks him are there any other symptoms. Pearse says he has lost weight. Angie says she has noticed he looks good. He also says he has no appetite and has a strange taste in his mouth. Angie suggests he comes down and has some tests. Pearse says he would like this kept between them.

The team are having a meeting. Vaughan tells them about the information he has found on the woman who was attacked. Her name is Marion Wainwright, a barrister, and her husband killed himself years earlier.

Kirsty has gone to a newspaper reporter telling him about Jack and Michael. She wants him to find Michael for her.

Angie has gone to see Marion. She tells Marion her own husband killed himself. Vaughan and Michael meet while investigating the death of a friend of Marion's called Donald Keep. Angie goes and sees Marion's doctor, who won't co-operate until Angie threatens to strike them off the register. Angie finds out Marion had suffered a number of miscarriages.

Marion is in a room at the organisation's base. Pearse walks in. She asks him is she under arrest. Pearse asks her about Donald Keep. She tells him her and Donald were just friends. Pearse asks were she was when he died. As she is being interviewed Vaughan is searching her home and Michael is having her husband's body exhumed.

Marion refuses to answer any questions and asks Pearse who he reports to, where her lawyers are and why he is not taping the interview. At this point Marion becomes ill.

Angie examines Marion. She finds a gestational sack that an embryo grows in, but it seems empty.

While Angie is examining Pearse he asks her how far is Marion pregnant. Angie says about 10 weeks. Angie tells him she will have to examine Marion more to confirm if there is an embryo in the sack.

Marion tells Angie she used her husbands frozen sperm. Angie explains the situation to Vaughan and Michael. Angie says it could be a phantom pregnancy. Michael asks what if it isn't. Angie says they will cross that bridge when they come to it. They go off to the fertility clinic to investigate.

Back in the lab. Pearse is discussing the situation with Angie. He is looking a Marion's husband's sperm on a screen. He says 'if its vampire tissue we would not be able to see it.' Angie says, "Correct, but..' Then goes and places the sperm under ultraviolet light and it instantly ignites. Pearse is stunned. Angie tells him the sperm envelope is human but the genetic DNA is vampire. Angie says it might not be an experiment. Pearse says he hopes she is not suggesting that the vampires have a need for offspring. Pearse then asks Angie if she has ever performed a termination. Angie replies have you ever sanctioned one. Pearse tells her this embryo is not human.

Michael and Vaughan are in a car watching Marion. Michael asks about Angie's husband. Vaughan tells him he died six years ago and took their five year old daughter with him. He says they wanted Angie. Michael asks what stopped them. Vaughan says Pearse killed them both.

Angie drives Marion to the fertility clinic were they meet up with Vaughan and Michael. Marion's doctor confirms there is no embryo on the scanner. A problem arises; there is an intruder in the clinic. Marion escapes.

Angie is angry she let Marion slip away. She goes back to Marion's place and finds the name of Marion's midwife. She goes to see her.

Marion phones the police but is put through to Pearse who tells her he knows she is traumatised but the baby is not her husband's and she is in danger. He tells her she is being used in an experiment. He says, for her own safety she must terminate the pregnancy. If she does not trust him, then go to a hospital or an abortion clinic. He tells her go slow, the people who did this to her will be looking for her.

Marion goes to a clinic, but realises it is a pro-life. She tries to leave but faints. An ambulance is called. The girl at the clinic calls the midwife but Angie takes the call.

The ambulance does not show up at the hospital, so Angie goes to check where it has got to. She finds the crew dead. She finds Marion and her husband. He tells Angie he loves his wife and he wants her to be with him. Angie kills the husband. She tries in vain to save Marion, but she dies.

Back in the lab, Pearse asks why did they want her. Angie uses the excuse that Marion still had some remains they could test in postmortem. Michael jokes 'maybe he just wanted her with him.' Vaughan accuses him of being a romantic; Angie does not say anything. Angie goes home and sits on her sleeping daughter's bed.

Review

Well this episode is very interesting. The four main characters are developing really wonderfully, We are slowly being allowed into to their life. Although this episode involved the character Angie we do get a little bit more insight in to Philip Quast`s character. Not only that, but for the first time we get to hear his name is Pearse. As usual the episode ends with just as many unanswered questions as it started with but that's what makes this series good and absolutely intriguing.