Silent Witness star David Caves has teased an upcoming storyline in sequence 27 that sees his character Jack Hodgson’s niece Cara Connelly “put in peril”.
Chatting with HELLO! and different journalists at a roundtable forward of sequence 27, the actor revealed that Cara develops a eager curiosity in her uncle’s work after enrolling in a criminology course at college.
“Cara has turn into much more integral to issues,” David defined. “She’s now finding out criminology at college.
© BBC Studios/Robert Wilson“There’s an ideal story she will get closely concerned with on the college campus a couple of criminology professor and so Jack is absolutely torn with it as a result of he does not wish to deny her what she needs to do and he or she reveals a expertise for it. He needs to encourage that however on the similar time it places her in peril.“
He added: “So it is an actual push and pull, which is a very attention-grabbing place for the character to be dropped into.”
© Kieron McCarronAs Cara develops extra of an curiosity in criminology, each Jack and his associate Nikki Alexander assume “parental roles”.
Explaining how the couple’s relationship dynamic modifications in relation to Velvy and Cara, who developed a candy friendship in sequence 26, Emilia mentioned: “With Velvy and Cara, [Jack’s] taking up a brand new paternal function and Nikki, who does not have youngsters however turns into this go-to particular person, which you do in a partnership, you take a look at issues out. It is an actual belief with one another.”
David added: “They each tackle these parental roles which is absolutely nice and is smart but it surely’s not executed in a heavy-handed method.”
Nikki and Jack first obtained collectively on the finish of season 24 after weeks of going backwards and forwards in a will-they-won’t-they storyline.
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After we discover them in season 27, the connection is stronger than ever, with pressures within the office bringing them nearer collectively.
Discussing how Nikki and Jack’s relationship has developed, Emilia defined: “I believe as a result of they’re collectively now, we have been making an attempt to work out the best way to have them in a relationship and have them working collectively. We did not wish to have a break-up, battle factor.
“We needed to do it in another way to different dramas that might make them combust, we needed the strain to carry them nearer and nearer,” the actress continued, including that she and David did not need the drama to turn into “too relationship-orientated” however really feel the romance brings “gentle into what is sort of a darkish and heavy world“.
© David EmeryDavid added: “Even in essentially the most intense, high-stakes conditions, there must be a little bit of reduction and letting the valve go.”
Within the new sequence, which arrives on January 8, Nikki and Jack tackle extra grizzly circumstances throughout 5 two-part mysteries.
The Lyell staff are confronted with a few of their most chilling circumstances but, together with the invention of a mummified corpse, deaths on a college campus and fears over a serial killer resurfacing after 20 years.
© BBC Studios/Gary MoyesThe synopsis continues: “Because the staff use their experience to unlock the reality, they’re examined to their very limits. Gabriel seeks recommendation from Jack in an sudden method, and lets down his guard at work with devastating outcomes. Velvy tries to do the correct factor by his household, however at nice value to himself. Cara navigates London pupil life, making associates and enemies alongside the way in which. She impresses Jack when she undertakes work expertise on the Lyell, and is compelled to intervene when she makes a surprising discovery about Velvy. Nikki and Jack take care of probably the most tough circumstances of their profession and their relationship turns into stronger than ever.”
Silent Witness sequence 27 premieres on BBC One on Monday 8 January 2024 at 9pm.
