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| - Fallen Angel is an ITV crime drama series, first broadcast on 11 March 2007, which is based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor. It tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has an unusual narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the layers of Rosie's past. Starring Charles Dance and Emilia Fox, the series was subtitled The Making of a Murderer for the DVD release, which followed on 19 March. (en)
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| - After finishing her exams, Rosie goes to stay with her father, the parish priest David Byfield, only to find that he wants to marry again. His intended is a woman named Vanessa. Rosie initially opposes the idea but then seemingly changes her mind. After the wedding, a woman named Juliana and the local historian Audrey Oliphant both try to obtain the Journals of Francis Youlgrave - who lived at the local manor house - from their owner, Lady Youlgrave. Lady Youlgrave used to own the local manor, but she later sold it to some hippies because she was too old to properly maintain it. Having learned that her exam results will not get her into Cambridge, Rosie takes out her anger on the young Michael, who has come to stay with them while his parents are on a second honeymoon. After Michael sees Rosie murder her stepmother and attempt to destroy the journals, he tells his family, and Rosie is arrested. However, before they take her away, she threatens the whole family by screaming, "You will all suffer for this!," seeming to target Michael specifically. Sometime after this, her father finds that Rosie has been released and apparently killed in a car crash, of which an 'Angela Wharton' is the sole witness. (en)
- Wendy Appleton comes to stay with the family after breaking up with her husband and finds her friends' marriage is in just as bad a shape. Rosie's mother, Janet, can't take care of her child due to a difficult pregnancy, and little Rosie is largely ignored by her father. She has a close relationship with her grandfather, Hugh, but things take a turn for the worse as he becomes senile. After David finds Hugh "cuddling" in bed with Rosie, he threatens to send him to a home. Hugh responds by saying, "I wish I was dead." That same night, after being sedated by his daughter Janet, he is murdered, and Janet commits suicide after leaving a note saying she is responsible for the old man's murder. However, later on, while eating at an ice cream parlour run by Audrey Strickland, Rosie reveals to Wendy that it was in fact she who killed Hugh and that Janet simply covered it up. Alarmed, Wendy tells Rosie never to mention it to anyone. Later, Wendy gets back together with her husband and becomes pregnant with Michael. (en)
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| - Fallen Angel is an ITV crime drama series, first broadcast on 11 March 2007, which is based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor. It tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has an unusual narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the layers of Rosie's past. Starring Charles Dance and Emilia Fox, the series was subtitled The Making of a Murderer for the DVD release, which followed on 19 March. (en)
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