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Avenge, O Lord

Episode Number: 38    Season Num: 4    First Aired: Friday December 20, 1985    Prod Code: n/a
Jim is assigned to guard a mainland MP who has come to Jersey to study the island's police force.

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Writer: John Fletcher
Director: Robert Tronson
Star: Louise Jameson (Susan Young),  Nancy Mansfield (Peggy Masters),  Geoffrey Leesley (DC Terry Wilson),  Jolyon Baker (DC Barry Goddard),  Lindsay Heath (Kim Bergerac),  Mela White (Diamante Lil),  Sean Arnold (Crozier),  John Nettles (Jim Bergerac),  Terence Alexander (Charles Hungerford),  Deborah Grant (Debbie Bergerac)
Guest Star: Brian Poyser (Simpson),  Haluk Bilginer (Ahmed),  Ian Redford (Mick Davies),  Ian McNeice (Fowler),  Bernard Hepton (Sir Geoffrey Newton),  Terrence Hardiman (Nigel Ripeley),  Charles Rea (Farmer)

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This is arguably one of the best 50min episodes of the entire series, and introduces Jim to the crooked face of International politics.
Bernard Hepton is superb as the MP with a murky past, engineering the convoluted plot and pulling all the strings in this tense plot.
The whole thing is rather let down by the ease with which the maveric SAS killer, Ian Redford infiltrates the security set up Jim puts into place to guard Ahmed. I would certainly have checked the boot of the car he had arrived in.
Excellent episode none the less. (edit)

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Avenge O Lord has its title from a poem by John Milton (1608-1674), which is also referred to in the episode. The poem was written as a commemoration of the massacre of the Waldensians by the Romish church in Piedmont, Italy.


Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones
Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold,
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old
When all our Fathers worship't Stocks and Stones,
Forget not: in thy book record their groanes
Who were thy Sheep and in their antient Fold
Slayn by the bloody Piemontese that roll'd
Mother with Infant down the Rocks. Their moans
The Vales redoubl'd to the Hills, and they
To Heav'n. Their martyr'd blood and ashes sow
O'er all th'Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple Tyrant: that from these may grow
A hunder'd-fold, who having learnt thy way
Early may fly the Babylonian wo.


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