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Alien treatment is still the biggest mystery
n HARPUR & ILES (BBC 1) - It's the oldest trick in the rule book, up there with
the accused making a ``full and frank confession'' or ``falling down the
stairs'', but BBC 1's new drama spins the good cop/bad cop routine like
handcuffs on a tabletop, till both are just a blur. Hywel Bennett is the
grasping and unscrupulous Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, while Aneirin
Hughes is the more-compassionate CID chief, Colin Harpur, forced to work the
same case of kidnapping. Based on the novel Protection by Bill James, Harpur
and Iles run through the Cardiff underworld trying to recover the young son of
an underworld boss, swiped as rival gangs battle over a protection racket. It's
a chance to find