If I Had You (film)
| If I Had You | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Written by | Caleb Ranson |
| Directed by | John Deery |
| Starring |
Sarah Parish Poppy Miller Paul McGann Mark Benton Andrew Buchan |
| Theme music composer | Dominik Scherrer |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Michele Buck Damien Timmer |
| Producer(s) | Karen Thrussell |
| Cinematography | John Daly |
| Editor(s) | Jackie Ophir |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Granada Television |
| Distributor | ITV |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 7 May 2006 |
If I Had You is a one-off British television crime drama, starring Sarah Parish, Poppy Miller, and Paul McGann. Parish stars as police detective Sharon Myers, who moves from the big city back to her small hometown to investigate a murder. If I Had You was first broadcast on May 7, 2006 on ITV. It was also broadcast in the United States on BBC America on July 25, 2006. Future member of One Direction, Louis Tomlinson, makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo appearance as a member of a group of boys who discover a body in the river.
Sharon Myers (Sarah Parish) unexpectedly turns up at a school reunion party being held in her birthplace of Luckwell, twenty years after leaving the village. She has returned to her hometown to take up the position of Detective Inspector, after recently being promoted. She bumps into her childhood best friend, Helen Andrews (Poppy Miller), who is heavily pregnant, and attending the party with her current husband, Phillip (Paul McGann). Helen is unaware that Sharon and Phillip know each other, and that they had an affair shortly before she discovered she was pregnant. During the party, Sharon notices that Phillip is making eyes at new schoolteacher Lesley Tenant (Nicole Lewis). The following morning, Sharon is given an early wake up call by D.S. Harry Fielding (Mark Benton), who informs her that a body has been found in a nearby lake. Sharon arrives at the scene to discover the body is none other than Lesley Tenant. Initial reports suggest that she was stabbed to death, and that her handbag, mobile phone and necklace have all been stolen. Suspicion initially falls on Phillip, but Sharon is quick to dissuade the idea that he could be the killer.
Phillip is arrested, but after an initial round of questioning, he is released without charge. Meanwhile, D.C. Marcus Watson (Andrew Buchan) discovers that only three necklaces of the kind Lesley was wearing have been bought locally in the past six months, one of which was purchased by a cash-buying customer, who matches Phillip's description. After a series of e-mails are discovered on Lesley's hard drive, signed "Love from P", Harry is determined to haul Phillip in again, but Sharon convinces him to bide his time, and instead look into one of Phillip's work colleagues, Paul, who was in a relationship with Lesley up until six weeks before her death. Meanwhile, after being invited round for supper by Helen, Sharon goes in search of some old childhood photos in Helen's garage, and unexpectedly comes across Lesley's necklace, hidden inside a music box.
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