First broadcast 15th April 2002.

After a playwright changes dialogue in her play just days before its opening, she is found brutally stabbed with other murders to follow.

James McAvoy ... Gowan Ross
Naomi Frederick ... Elizabeth
Ronald Pickup ... Sir Stuart Stinhurst
Yvonne O'Grady ... Joy
Jonathan Firth ... Rhys Davies Jones
Camilla Power ... Joanna Sydeham
Idris Elba ... Robert Gabriel
Julian Wadham ... David Sydeham
Sharon Small ... Barbara Havers
Nathaniel Parker ... Thomas Lynley
Don Gallagher ... Inspector Macaskin
Gary Cross ... Sergeant Lonan
Lesley Vickerage ... Helen Clyde
JRavin J. Ganatra ... Forensic Pathologist
Ron Donachie ... John Ross
Barbara Horne ... Solicitor