So deep is Joe's gratitude that he helps with the kidnapping of a young wealthy married woman, Nina, whom Sandor is obsessed with.

Nina and the child are both released when the ransom is paid, and soon after this Sandor jumps to his death into the path of a train as Joe watches.

Nina is then lured to her death by Gianni, a former gay partner of Sandor, and her body is found buried in woodland a few days later.

A review in the Los Angeles Times stated that the series was "driven largely by Rhys’ seething energy as the dangerous Sandor, with support from Sheen’s slothful, spineless Joe.

Even they cannot adrenalize a laborious section of Part 3 that stalls the story, but director Tim Fywell (“A Dark Adapted Eye”) gets it all together in time for a multiple-twist ending that is interestingly complex if not entirely logical.