Collision (TV series)

Collision is a fivepart television drama miniseries, which debuted on ITV amp UTV in November 2009. In the same month, it was also on PBS as a series in two parts. It tells the story of a group of strangers whose lives intertwine following a devastating car crash. The crash opens a number of startling revelations as stories of everything from government coverups and smuggling, to embezzlement and murder start to unravel.

Joyce Thompson is the mother of Christine Edwards. Thompson died while in a car with Brian Edwards, Christines husband. Her death puts a strain on the marriage. Mrs. Edwards blames him, and it is slowly revealed how much Mr. Edwards hated his motherinlaw and how she treated Ms. Edwards. Finally, he admits that, after the crash, Mrs. Thompson was alive but her nagging voice pushed him to slam her head against the dashboard repeatedly. Jane Tarrant and Richard Reeves decide to leave their partners and travel to Europe, but Reeves wife shows up at the station instead to tell Tarrant that her husband has made promises before but will never leave hes a coward. Tarrant screws up her courage and goes anyway, living her dream. Tolin finds a thumb drive on Karen Donnellys keychain that contain the stolen documents. After revealing the man Donnelly thought was a reporter is not, Tolin gives the documents to the real Guardian reporter the man was impersonating to give Donnellys deathand the risk she took to reveal injusticemeaning. Previously, throughout, its hinted at that Samuel Norris, the piano instructor and main cause of the accident, might be a paedophile. However this is just another red herring, as ... Tolin and Stallwood track down a suspicious friend of Norris only to discover their secret is that they have bootleg Star Trek episodes, which explains the amount of time Norris spent on his computer.

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