Edge of Darkness(1985)
Overview
Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads him through a haunting revelation of the murkiness of British nuclear policy of the 1980s.
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Ronald Craven
Darius Jedburgh
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