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Halifax f.p. – Afraid of the Dark (1997)

play Sexual references; Violence – low
clip Interrogation

Original classification rating: MA. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

Jane Halifax (Rebecca Gibney) interviews a suspect. Later, she undergoes another kind of interrogation at the hands of her analyst Marion Walters (Cathering Wilkin).

Curator’s notes

Afraid of the Dark mixes up the timeframe of its narrative by cutting between the case unfolding and later scenes between Halifax and her psychiatrist. As well as a structural device, these psychiatrist scenes give writer-producer Roger Simpson an opportunity to deconstruct his main character a little.