Review: Beck (E5), Saturday 10th October, BBC4

An elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm from what seems to be a common side effect of motor neurone disease, but her son refuses to accept it. Who killed Birgitta Lindvall? Is an angel of death stalking the hospital where this incapacitated woman is found slumped in front of late-night TV, possibly killed by a morphine overdose, an empty hypodermic needle on a table just out of her reach?

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