If you’ve had elderly relatives conned, Silent Witness will make your blood boil ...Middle East

There certainly seems to have been a wholesale cast clear-out since the last series, with no sign of Velvy (Alastair Michael), Gabriel (Aki Omoshaybi) or Cara (Rhiannon May). In fact, newly engaged lovebirds Dr Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson (Emilia Fox and David Caves) had the place to themselves as the new series began, taking advantage of their solitude for a spot of canoodling.

Maggie Steed as the Lyell Centre’s new head, Harriet Maven, adds pep to the proceedings (Photo: Chris Baker/BBC)

Steed – a distinguished veteran actor most recently seen in Paddington 2 and Fisherman’s Friends – is an asset to any TV show and has already added some welcome pep to the proceedings. Her maverick spikiness will provide some welcome contrast to Jack and Nikki cooing at each other.

We met this elderly woman in a woozy pre-credit sequence. Suffering from vascular dementia and under the illusion that she was picking foxgloves with a youthful sweetheart (in fact, an all too real ne’er-do-well), she was led to a cave and left to die.

Playing Nice will strike fear into the heart of any parent

Benjamin meanwhile had problems of his own – cowboy builders who wanted to charge him £58,000 to fix his gutters. Anyone who has elderly relatives who have been thus targeted (as indeed I do) will have felt their blood boil. Meanwhile, the police end of the investigation saw the return of DI John Flynn, played by Sean Pertwee. If the face wasn’t familiar, then Pertwee’s low, murmuring voice might have been. He provides the mouth-watering narration on MasterChef; the Professionals.

Perhaps a backhanded tribute to Whitwell was that the forensics business in this latest episode was more interesting than the characters. The squeamish, however, may have wanted to look away as Nikki applied a scalpel to the victim’s rotted fingertips or prepared to poke around in her grey matter (“Oh good… Dr Alexander is going to open up the skull!” exclaimed gleeful new boss Harriet from the viewing platform). Given the current dominance of cosy crime, the unblinkingly realistic approach of this 28-year-old show could almost be called refreshingly radical.

‘Silent Witness’ continues tomorrow at 9pm on BBC One

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