Trial & Retribution - Acorn Media Announces Set 4 on DVD

Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect) brings her trademark intensity and depth of characterization to this gripping British crime series. Each feature-length drama traces a crime from commission to courtroom, revealing the complex motives and machinations of the police, the accused, and the attorneys. At the same time, the series never loses sight of the victims and their families, compassionately showing the scars left as a consequence of crime.

David Hayman (Hope and Glory) and Victoria Smurfit (About a Boy) star as DCS Mike Walker and DCI Roisin Connor, two former rivals who share a fanatical devotion to their profession. In these three cases, they investigate a schoolteacher's murder complicated by racial tensions, the tragic death of a toddler, and the killing of a politically prominent couple in their home. Created by the "playwright laureate of women crime-stoppers" (NPR's Weekend Edition), this unflinching detective drama boasts innovative direction and daring storytelling. NOTE: Contains graphic scenes.

Acorn Media is bringing Trial & Retribution - Set 4 out over here as a 3-DVD package, arriving on June 15th. You'll get 3 feature-length episodes (approx. 408 minutes) presented in widescreen video, with English Stereo sound and English subtitles. Extras consist of photo galleries, a biography of creator Lynda La Plante, and cast filmographies. Pricing is $49.99 SRP in the USA, and CA$64.99 SRP in Canada. Here's the disc-by-disc breakdown of the features, followed by a look at the box art:

• Disc 1 - VOLUME XII: Paradise Lost...The brutal rape and murder of a young white teacher looks like an open-and-shut case. The victim's black boyfriend has a criminal record and a feeble alibi, and the forensic evidence seems damning. But has unconscious racism distorted Connor's view of the facts? With accusations poisoning the atmosphere, she and her colleagues must find the killer in a community increasingly hostile to the police.
  
  
• Disc 2 - VOLUME XIII: Curriculum Vitae...Harried single mom Suzy MacDonald returns home from a business trip to find her precious 18-month-old daughter dead in her crib. Connor and Walker focus their attention on the recently hired nanny, who has vanished with Suzy's car. But the mysterious young lady proves particularly adept at covering her tracks.
  
  
• Disc 3 - VOLUME XIV: Mirror Image...A small fortune in missing jewels at a murder scene suggests a botched burglary. The victims' wealth and status-a police commander and his magistrate wife-put added pressure on Walker and Connor to find the perpetrator, fast. But as the police probe the family's unsavory secrets, Connor's suspicions fall on the couple's sons, despite their apparently airtight alibi.

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