“Well, each book lends itself to giving you an opportunity as a director to do your own thing,” she says. But when it came to piecing together the four, hour-long parts that make up Lethal White, director Sue Tully saw an opportunity to put her own spin on things. “But the wonderful thing about Lethal White was that the BBC were really generous and said, “Tell us how many parts you think it ought to be”, so we were able to look at the material and lay out a scheme that felt right for the book and right for the show.”ĭirecting a new entry in a long-running and established series such as Strike can also prove problematic for the director. “ Career Of Evil was a really substantial book and we covered that in two hours, so a lot of stuff had to be cut there,” he says.
It’s no mean feat for screenwriter Tom Edge to pack the captivating (and complicated) Strike stories into the relatively short, snappy format TV, with countless scenes and moments from the books unfortunately, at times, having to be discarded. “But afterwards there’s this slightly stilted personal relationship, with them just getting on with the professional side of things, and we catch up with them as they kind of start to come closer together again.” “She has just gone and got married to Matthew, even though we're all going – and I think she herself is thinking – “Don’t do it!”, and when we begin this series she learns Strike feels he made a mistake, and wants her to come back, and in turn how she then realises how much that means to her.
Heart-breaking as it may have been to watch the dynamic duo finally bring an end to their time together and Robin walk down the aisle with Matthew (angrily shakes fist), the ramifications of both events take centre stage in Lethal White, Grainger explains. The wait for Lethal White has been made all the more agonising after Career Of Evil’s humdinger of an ending, which ( warning, massive spoilers lay ahead) of course saw Strike reluctantly sack Robin as his assistant, then promptly just arrive in time to her wedding.
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