Overview
- A lead actor collapses during a beach performance of The Tempest after drinking red wine later found to contain a lethal dose of cyanide.
- Detectives face a key anomaly because two other performers drank from the same bottle yet were unharmed.
- Tim McMullan guest-stars as director Richard Dempster, revisiting Prospero after previously playing the role at London’s Globe.
- The episode’s guest cast also includes Phoebe Sparrow, Samuel Edward-Cook, Ben Lloyd-Hughes and Paul G Raymond.
- BBC teases added personal stakes for the team, including tensions involving Sergeant Mattie Fletcher and news about DI Mervin Wilson’s family.