Thorne begins to suspect that this surviving victim wasn’t a mistake by the killer at all, and things grow weirder from there. She can hear you, she can understand everything, but she can’t move. “It’s characterized by complete paralysis of all voluntary muscle functions in the body, apart from those which control eye movements,” a doctor (Natascha McElhone) explains to Thorne. And by the end of the second, “Thorne: Scaredy Cat,” on Wednesday, poor Detective Inspector Thorne has a whole new set of burdens to brood about. In the first piece, “Thorne: Sleepyhead,” on Tuesday night, we learn one reason that Thorne seems so haunted: The creepy present-day case he is working turns out to be related to a case from his past in which his conduct was not exactly by the book. Morrissey, a veteran of many British television series, has reticence down to an art form as he brings Thorne, the character from Mark Billingham’s crime novels, to life. In the championship he might well meet David Morrissey’s Tom Thorne, who, based on the two intense dramas being offered this week on Encore, would have an excellent shot at being the British finalist. The smart money would be on Tom Selleck’s growly Jesse Stone to come out of the American bracket. Picture a bracket-style Fictional Police Brood-Off in which all those moody cops populating the international television landscape would compete to see who could convey the most while saying the least.
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