After a playwright changes dialogue in her play just days before its opening, she is found brutally stabbed with other murders to follow.
James McAvoy ... Gowan Ross Naomi Frederick ... Elizabeth Ronald Pickup ... Sir Stuart Stinhurst Yvonne O'Grady ... Joy Jonathan Firth ... Rhys Davies Jones Camilla Power ... Joanna Sydeham Idris Elba ... Robert Gabriel Julian Wadham ... David Sydeham Sharon Small ... Barbara Havers Nathaniel Parker ... Thomas Lynley Don Gallagher ... Inspector Macaskin Gary Cross ... Sergeant Lonan Lesley Vickerage ... Helen Clyde JRavin J. Ganatra ... Forensic Pathologist Ron Donachie ... John Ross Barbara Horne ... Solicitor