What Remains (TV series)
| What Remains | |
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| Genre | |
| Written by | Tony Basgallop |
| Directed by | Coky Giedroyc |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Harry Escott |
| Composer(s) | Harry Barnes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 4 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Hilary Salmon |
| Producer(s) | Grainne Marmion |
| Location(s) | London |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC Drama Production |
| Release | |
| Original network | |
| Original release | 25 August – 15 September 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
What Remains is a British television drama series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 August 2013. The last episode was broadcast on 15 September 2013. It was written by Tony Basgallop and directed by Coky Giedroyc.
A body is discovered in the attic of a tenement house in Coulthard Street. The body is the remains of Melissa Young (Jessica Gunning), a young woman who owns the top flat and whose death has been unnoticed for two years. Detective Len Harper (David Threlfall) investigates. Disturbed by Melissa's unnoticed death and to stave off his own isolation, he practices archery and unofficially continues the investigation past his retirement, after his colleagues close the case as a suicide.
The occupants of the house are nominally happy: young couple Michael Jenson (Russell Tovey) and the pregnant Vidya Khan (Amber Rose Revah) have just moved in; couple Elaine Markham (Indira Varma) and Peggy Scott (Victoria Hamilton) are designers; journalists Kieron Moss (Steven Mackintosh) and girlfriend Patricia Keenan (Claudie Blakley) are discussing further commitment. Elderly maths teacher Joe Sellers (David Bamber) shares his flat with the far younger Liz Fletcher (Denise Gough), who cooks for him domestically but whose relationship with him is otherwise left vague.
Len searches Melissa's flat and is assaulted by Liz, who escapes without him seeing her face. He discovers that Elaine and Peggy used Melissa in a photo shoot for an underwear catalogue. Melissa later tried to get out of this with a lawyer, causing Elaine to threaten her physically. Vidya creates a social networking profile for Melissa and tracks down one of Melissa's friends who took part in a slimming group with her. Her friend describes Melissa in a different way to how her neighbours did, and she mentions that Melissa had a boyfriend. (He was later identified as Kieron, on the rebound between his divorce and Patricia).
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