Introduction

Bodies is a British crime/science fiction limited series primarily written and created for Netflix by Paul Tomalin.

It is based on the 2015 DC Vertigo graphic novel of the same name, written by Si Spencer and illustrated by Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick and Phil Winslade.

Also known as Project VI (working title, UK).

Outline

• Ashe notices a fingerprint Harker left on Hillinghead’s spectacles, meaning they can still link him to the body via other prints Hillinghead previously found on Longharvest Lane.
• Whiteman and Esther are followed by a man who later attempts to kill him in an air raid shelter. He is injured but kills his assailant and discovers a warrant card showing him to be a fellow police officer. The woman who has been calling Whiteman from the organisation is revealed to be Polly, Hillinghead’s now elderly daughter, and poisons Esther.
• Hasan discovers archive case files from Hillinghead and Whiteman’s investigations and informs her boss, DCI Barber. They discover further links between Mannix’s foster parents, the Morleys, and the Harker family. Hasan breaks into Harker’s abandoned home, where she is met by Andrew Morley, who has a collection of Defoe’s dead bodies and talks cryptically about being part of a large group on an inevitable path, whose roles are to change the world and future. Maplewood’s name is mentioned on an old phonograph recording. Morley then locks Hasan in an underground room.
• Maplewood takes Defoe to her apartment to protect him from his upcoming murder. They talk over wine about free will and his research into naked singularity, which he argues proves time travel is theoretically possible. He attempts to escape but Maplewood catches him, only to be tasered by her neighbour Lorna, revealed to be Defoe’s fellow member of Chapel Perilous.

Bodies Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 19 October 2023 (internet).
• Running Time: 60 minutes.
• Rating: 15.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.

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