Jack Davenport (Actor), Susannah Harker (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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In the six-part British miniseries Ultraviolet, we discover that ultraviolet light is used (both in surgery and via high-tech weaponry) to identify people who have been infected with a disease labeled "Code V." It's transmitted via a bite to the neck, but at no point in the series is the word vampire used. Instead, in the second episode ("In Nomine Patris") the nickname "Leech" is introduced. We learn that it was this disease that was responsible for the fire of London, and that one in 20 people are already infected. In the opening episode, policeman Michael Colefield (Jack Davenport) is recruited into the secretive Complaints Investigation Bureau. He meets its introverted priest-chief Pearse (Philip Quast), the emotionally driven Dr. Angela March (Susannah Harker), and the bullish heavyweight Vaughan (Idris Elba). Spinning around Mike's suddenly complicated life are his best friend's jilted fiancée (Colette Brown) and an old flame (Fiona Dolman). In later hard-hitting episodes we see the stabbing murder of a teacher-priest by a 12-year-old boy ("Mea Culpa") and the capture of a Leech ("Persona Non Grata"). This intriguing series ends having tied together most of its threads, but dangles worrying implications at the viewer... not so much to suggest a sequel as to hammer home everything at stake. It played in America on the Sci Fi Channel. --Paul Tonks Read more
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