‘The Real Manunter’ Recap: ‘The Murder of Bridie Skehan’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode Three of ‘The Real Manhunter’.
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When we take the time to ponder upon the illustrious career of someone that is the best in their field, we always look at their greatest accomplishments and understandably so. After all, those are the moments that defined them and made them the person we admire in their field, so it is best to celebrate those huge wins and the legacy they created. But while there is nothing wrong with reflecting upon the big moments for our heroes, it is equally as important to recognize the smaller victories, the kind that happened during the start of their illustrious journey. Simply because, more often than not, the greatness we know through and through, started early in their career and that’s relevant to our discussion today, due to the fact that the early victory is spotlighted in the next episode of The Real Manhunter on AcornTV.

For ‘The Murder of Bridie Skehan’ takes us back to Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton’s first day as the top investigator with the Metropolitan Police. Where he was outright getting his feet wet and meeting his team and pondering upon how to run a unit full of detectives when a simple call came in. One that brought Colin and a handful of others down a well-to-do condo where other tenants were concerned about the well-being of Bridie Skehan. For she basically disappeared at Christmastime from her flat without a trace and well, it didn’t take long for Colin’s team and other to become suspicious of that disappearance. In fact, a missing key ring to a nearby shed, led the team to explore said shed in the hopes of finding some kind of clue as to Bridie’s whereabouts and well, that’s when the case took quite the turn.

Because instead of finding more clues and potential leads, they straight up found Bridie’s body and once it became clear that someone ended her life in a violent fashion, Colin’s new unit went to work and that’s when the win in question came into play. Because this team wasted no time in getting down to exploring every possible association that Bridie had in the building, since someone had to know something about who might have harmed this ninety-two-year-old woman and well, it didn’t take long for that line of questioning to reveal that she sublet her home, to a pair of suspicious folks named Ahmed Al-Haddad and Nimpha Ong. And what made them so suspicious, is that they often had disagreements with Bridie about the rules of her house and they too weren’t around all that much all of a sudden and that motivated Colin to have his team intercept Al-Haddad’s brother to try and find Ahmed.

A move that paid off in spades, because he was staying with his brother and it didn’t take long for the police to bring in Nimpha either and just like that, they had their key suspects and thanks to more detailed work from the team… they were able to figure out that this couple took the time to murder Bridie in a silly attempt to rob her of her fortune. Thankfully though they went to jail for their crimes… not for as long as they should have, but they did, and this first case is of note… because it set the tone for Colin’s career. For he would go on to regularly investigate cases with the same sense of urgency that was present here, and his expectations that every lead and clue be exhausted and investigated to a tee, brought about plenty more justice throughout his career and he saved a great deal of lives in the process from nastier killers that were unable and unwilling to stop and that really is worth celebrating.

Because it speaks to the fact that Colin was genuinely dedicated to his work and the craft of detection and for his efforts, he earned his place as a legendary DCI. One that could crack any case and could bring any monster to justice, and it was quite amazing to go back and see how quickly Colin established himself as an elite investigator and how quickly he came to realize he could make a powerful difference as an SIO. And now that this amazing episode has ended, it should be quite interesting to see what other chapters in his Colin’s illustrious career this series is going to spotlight, so we can be privy to every type of case he faced during his time with the Metropolitan Police and learn exactly how he managed to bring down more crafty killers and criminals that thought they were somehow ahead of a talented detective. Until next time.  

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