A word to the wise, and to newly relocated Mudcatter Amos.

If you don't want to lose any sleep at night,
then DON'T view the following:


"To Be A Somebody," a series of, was it, three episodes of a BBC detective show called "Cracker."
Jimmy McGovern, I believe, wrote the scripts,
putting fictitious Liverpool characters
in a position to react to the real-life Hillsborough deaths
and to the real-life coverage in The Sun following the incident.

Robbie Coltrane, whom you will know as Hagrid from the Harry Potter movies
and Gimli from the Lord of the Rings movies,
starred as Fitz, the "cracker" (breaking difficult cases) detective.

These television episodes were broadcast more like twenty-three to twenty-five years ago, rather than thirty years ago.
People are still talking about "To Be A Somebody" all these years later,
it was a viewing experience that no one could forget.

The Liverpool character, Albie Kinsella,
grieving the unexpected death of his father,
is caught completely off-guard by the Hillsborough affair,
especially the smear journalism in The Sun.
He literally goes mad,
and by the time he is confined to a cell,
he has killed several times.

An up-and-coming actor named Robert Carlyle made a name for himself
in the role of Albie Kinsella.

You have been warned.