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A Killing on the Exchange is a six-part 1987 British crime drama serial produced by Anglia Television for ITV. The plot focuses on the murder of London merchant banker Charles Makepeace, amidst a corporate takeover battle. The investigation, led by DS Lance Thorne, uncovers a web of suspects, including the victim's wife, mistress, and colleagues, all with potential motives related to the merger and personal conflicts.
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Part 1
60 min
Carl Sillmans, a merchant banker firm midway through an expected merger with Dinslow Chemical Industries, is thrown into turmoil when its manager, Charles Makepeace, is found murdered. His flask had been poisoned, and as Detective Superintendent Lance Thorne investigates, he finds that there're a surprising number of people who may have wanted him dead. His wife Isobel, for example, whom he was planning to divorce for his mistress, Stella Tyson. His work colleague, John Field, who learned that day he was to be denied promotion, preferring an American arriving later that day, Dan Maitland, son of a rival firm. And then there's the mysterious threatening phone call he received the evening he died that suggests something far darker is happening than anyone realises.
Part 2
60 min
Field and Maitland travel to Dinslow Chemicals after noticing that one of the protesting activists was at a number of companies targeted and suspect he may be a plant. The duo are attacked, but Field is later contacted by the man, Nathaniel Mustard, by phone and arranges to meet him. However, unbeknownst to Field, Mustard is later ambushed in his car by masked men and carted away. Meanwhile, Makepeace's secretary Nina Novotny discovers in one of Makepeace's dictations a recording of a woman accusing him of being a murderer. She contacts Thorne, but finding out who the woman is will be only part of the problem — especially when he discovers that the woman has disappeared.
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