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30 years ago: Cops Harry Wallis (Mark Benton) & Marty Hopkirk's (Vic
Reeves) father Larry (also Vic Reeves) hunt supercriminal Sidney Crabbe (Paul
Whitehouse). Cornered, Sidney shoots at Harry & places a bullet right
beside his heart - not lethal but too tricky to ever surgically remove -
before, in desperation, jumping ut of a window to his death.
But if Harry & Larry thought that was the last they heard of Crabbe,
they were wrong, as soon his brother Maurice (Grant M asters) - formerly a
law-abiding citizen - takes over, & not only that, he even has an affair
with Harry's wife. Of course Harry & Larry soon corner him, too, but in a
shoot-out Larry is killed, while Maurice is put into a coma ...
Now (otherwise known as 30 years later): Harry Wallis comes to the office of
Randall & Hopkirk, hoping to find the son of his erstwhile partner - only
to learn from Jeff Randall (Bob Mortimer) that he was killed as well - that
Jeff is the only one who can still see & communicate with his ghost he
doesn't need to know.
However, Harry hires Jeff & his partner Jeannie (Emilia Fox), Marty's
fiancée, to find Maurice Crabbe for him, claiming that he has inherited a
considerable sum of money. Jeff & Jeannie manage to find Maurice, still in
a coma, but Deirdre (Susan Brown), the woman who takes care of him, claims she
wants all bridges to the past to be/remain broken & wants to hear nothing
of the money.
That would be the end of it it seems, wouldn't Marty, in Limbo, to which he
has just been introduced by his spiritual guide Wyfern (Tom Baker) have a
violent encounter with the ghost of Sidney Crabbe, who wants to take
revenge on the Hopkirks ndwants to go back to haunt the earth through his
brother (this is because every ghost, in order to remain earthbound, needs a
host, which for Marty is Jeff, but for Sidney it would be Maurice, who wouldn't
be much assistqance, having been comatose for 30 years).
Back on earth though, things take a different turn, too, as Harry soon
kidnaps Jeannie, forcing her to give him Maurice's whereabouts, as he wants to
kill him ev en after all his years, because as it turns out he has not only
shot his partner but also stolen Deirdre, his wife, who now takes care of
Maurice. & Maurice even proves to be comatose at all but only fked his own
coma for 30 years to get rid of the ghost of his brother, who forced him to
become a criminal in the first place - for which he is now about to be killed
by Harry - if Jeff wouldn't interfere just in time, catching the bullet meant
for Maurice & having a near death experience ... which is a good thing, as
he arrives in the netherworld just in time to save Marty from being thrown into
oblivion by Sidney - & Marty even shows Jeff how to hold onto life.
But trouble is not over yet, as Harry is still threatening Maurice, Deirdre,
Jeff & Jeannie with his gun ... but fortunately Marty has come back to erth
with Jeff (as a spirit of course) & with his newly acquired telekinetic
powers he moves the bullet in Harry's body from 30 years ago just a little
further to hit his heart ... (yep, he dies).
Not at all a bad episode, it ahs just a few too many elements thrown into
the 50-minute story: the concepts of Limbo & Oblivion are both introduced
for the first time, as well as the Land of Dreams (where Larry Hopkirk
spends his days), there are lengthy flashback to 30 years ago, a ghostly
nemesis for Marty (Paul Whitehouse, who is under-used here) plus a revenge plot
- it's just too darn much for so darn little time.
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