Original Air Date: Oct. 20, 2013
So, I've tried to sit down and write about this show before
but each time I fall into a trap about how much I loved Tom Tom (Andrew Lee Potts) and Charlie (Elliot Knight). So with only one
episode left let’s see if I can be any more articulate.
If you've never watched
By
Any Means, it’s vaguely reminiscent of
Leverage in my opinion. Not
to say it has anywhere as near perfect characters as
Leverage but it has similarities
in the way the story unfolds.
By Any
Means centers around a team of four who operate in that grey area. When someone commits a major crime but
for whatever reason the police are unable to convict said person that’s when
Jack Quinn, as played by Warren Brown, and his team are called in. Their mission: to by any means necessary get
their man (like I worked the title of the show in there). What reminds me of
Leverage
is in each episode their mission seems to be going horribly wrong but in the end its all revealed in quick flashbacks, that had
previously been kept from the audience, that everything had happened exactly as planned.
This week’s episode begins with a man named Ahmed (played by
Ashraf Barhom) who shoots and kills a man in the woods whose only crime is
being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ahmed is able to get out of his arrest by promising MI-5 important
information on suspected terrorists cells working within the country. Helen Barlow (played by Gina McKee), the
team's contact, feels that while the information is important Ahmed’s previous human trafficking and murderous exploits should not go unpunished, so she calls in Jack
Quinn. Jack and
the team set out to break his former accomplice, Mehmet (played by Stewart Scudamore), out of prison in order to frighten Ahmed into a murder confession.
