Right in the middle of season 1 of "Honest" - which I originally started watching because of Amanda Redman (she of "New Tricks") and Sean Pertwee (the original Hugh Beringar in "Cadfael"), but soon learned to like for its own merit - I seem to see a bit of UST between Lindsay Carter (= Redman) and Ed Bain (= Pertwee). Lindsay is the wife of a career criminal ("career" as in "gets through life by perpetually committing petty crimes") in jail for the next four years, and mother to four teenaged children who also play it fast and loose with the law, while Bain is a police sergeant who's knocking at the Carters' door almost daily. DS Bain is strangely understanding of Lindsay's woes and does his best to protect her, plus in episode 1x05 he felt the need to make it clear to her that while he's technically still married, he's well on his road to divorce from "that bitch".

Too bad Lindsay is faithful to her jealous "wanker" of a husband.

They'd be the perfect amour fou. Even more so than Taylor or Vin's sexcapades with Viccy and Diane Wong or Deputy Headmistress Catherine Flitt.

Which, evidently, is a weakness of mine. No, not the sexcapades. Although, female nipple shots! All the time! Oh, the horrors! *eg*

Now, I want Lindsay & Ed het fanfic.

:::headdesk:::

The thing that almost made me spit tea all over the keyboard, though? Was Lindsay's father-in-law, Grandpa Carter (Michael Byrne), starting to sing "Over the Hills and Far Away". For the uninitiated: The actor played the role of Major Nairn, Wellington's spy master, in "Sharpe".