Synopsis
A teenage runaway befriends his male boss, but the pair find themselves caught up in a series of tragic situations...
From the Back Cover
Best Boys is the eighth story from the internationally acclaimed series
Cracker, winner of two BAFTA awards, and created by the celebrated writer Jimmy McGovern.
Fitz (Robbie Coltrane) is a brilliant criminal psychologist with a dark side a side dependent on a cocktail of alcohol and gambling. He lectures at the local university and profiles suspects for the Manchester Police Force.
Sex and love and eternity are things we all want and need, but when they lead to murder it can only bring tragedy to Stuart Grady and Bill Nash. Fitz is soon pitched against two people who superficially survive as father and son, when all the time they need more than anything to admit they love each other. In the background, the legacy of Jimmy Beck continues to twist the knife in Fitzs relationship with the traumatised Penhaligon, while Fitzs wife Judith desperately tries to cling to the wreckage of her marriage as she realises with awesome clarity, the full impact of a new baby on their lives.