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"Resurrection Men" is a 2007 episode of STV's Rebus television series. It was the first episode broadcast in the show's fourth season, and starred Ken Stott in the title role. The episode was based on the Ian Rankin novel of the same name.
The title, besides the explanation in the book itself, is a reference to the body-snatchers of the 19th century, who were known as 'resurrectionists' or 'resurrection men'. Rebus himself, in the preceding novel, The Falls, was preoccupied with Burke and Hare who posed as grave-robbers and are often carelessly identified as 'resurrection men.'.
Oct 5, 2007 · Resurrection Men: Directed by Roger Gartland. With Stella Gonet, Jason Hetherington, Bryan Larkin, Ken Stott. Dissolute art gallery owner Eddie Marber is murdered, suspicion falling on an artist whose work he refused to exhibit though a valuable painting has also gone missing from his flat.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Roger Gartland
- Strip Jack. A police raid on an Edinburgh brothel captures (seemingly by accident) popular young local MP Gregor Jack. When Jack's fiery wife Elizabeth disappears, and two bodies are found, suspicion falls on a famous local actor Rab Kinnoul.
- The Black Book. Rebus finds himself with a number of problems on his hands. His wayward brother, Michael, has returned to Edinburgh in need of accommodation and while out drinking, he meets an old army friend, Deek Torrance, who admits to being involved in shady activities, telling Rebus he can get his hands on 'anything from a shag to a shooter'.
- Let It Bleed. Rebus and Frank Lauderdale are involved in a car chase across Edinburgh to apprehend kidnappers, culminating with the two youths they are chasing throwing themselves off the Forth Road Bridge and in Rebus being injured in a car crash.
- Black and Blue. Rebus is working on four cases at once, while trying to catch a killer he suspects of being the infamous Bible John. He has to do it while under an internal inquiry led by a man he has accused of taking bribes from Glasgow's "Mr Big".
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- Police Associates
- Other Associates
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Detective Inspector John Rebus
Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series. He was born in 1947 in Fife and left school at the age of fifteen to join the Army. After serving in Northern Ireland he applied to undergo selection for the SAS, but after a horrendous ordeal in training, left the army and joined the Lothian and Borders Police. He is initially introduced as a Detective Sergeant, and is promoted to Detective Inspectorearly in the series.
Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke
Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke ("Shiv") is Rebus's trusted friend and partner. Her given name is represented in IPA /ʃɨˈvɔːn/. In the television dramatisations, Clarke was first played by Gayanne Potter, and then by Claire Price. In the 2024 reboot she is played by Lucie Shorthouse. Clarke is much younger than Rebus. Her parents are English and politically active on the left. She has a university degree. She is a devoted follower of Hibernian Football Club(Hibs). As a woman, she faces obst...
Detective Chief Superintendent Gill Templer
Detective Chief Superintendent Gill Templer is a regular character in Rebus series up through A Question of Blood (2003). She first appears in Knots and Crosses as a Detective Inspector and Press Liaison; she and Rebus have an affair. In the two subsequent novels, he is still in love with her but their relationship is on-and-off-again; it ends definitively when he chooses to move in with Patience Aitkin in Strip Jack (1992). Templer is ambitious and networks with other women who are pushing t...
Professor Gates
Professor "Sandy" Gates is a forensic pathologist who appears frequently in the Rebus series between 1996 and 2006. He and Dr. Curt are the usual medical examiners who dissect the bodies of victims. In 2013's Saints of the Shadow Bible(Chapter 13) we hear that he has been dead for some years.
Doctor Curt
Doctor Curt is a forensic pathologist and medical examiner who appears frequently in the Rebus series, beginning in 1992 with Strip Jack and ending with The Naming of the Dead(2006). He is junior to the formidable Sandy Gates, although both men are eminent figures in their profession. His fearless sense of humour is a precision instrument.
Professor Deborah Quant
Professor Deborah Quant is a forensic pathologist, medical examiner, and professor who appears in the Rebus novels starting with Saints of the Shadow Bible(2013). She also figures, below, in the list of Rebus's personal relationships.
Jim Stevens
Jim Stevens is a journalist hostile to Rebus. He first appears in Knots and Crosses (1987), where he is a strong point-of view character as he pursues a story about Rebus's spectacular corruption; when this thesis fails him, he moves to London. Rankin featured him in his 1988 spy novel, Watchman, a non-Rebus book. Stevens returns to the Rebus series in full force in Dead Souls(1999), where he tries to write a book about a serial killer and becomes his subject's victim.
Matthew Vanderhyde
Professor Matthew Vanderhyde is a retired professor and, supposedly, warlock. He is blind, but has not always been so, and he is a fund of Edinburgh history. Rebus meets him in Hide and seek (1991) when Rebus is investigating an apparently occult murder scene. He appears in The Black Book, where he focuses Rebus on the Central Hotel fire five years earlier, and in Mortal Causes, where he is a source of information about Sword and Shield, a pro-Scottish independence group of the past. In The H...
Mairie Henderson
Mairie Henderson first appears in The Black Book (1993) as a "hungry" young newspaper reporter—not only for stories, but for food; Rebus frequently treats her to a meal. She gives him information from the newspaper's archives, and he gives her leads on cases he is working on. The relationship continues through Dead Souls (1999), where she refuses to help Rebus destroy the life of an ex-con. Mairie returns in The Naming of the Dead (2006), having published a successful book on 'Big Ger' Caffer...
Morris Gerald "Big Ger" Cafferty
Morris Gerald Cafferty ("Big Ger") is a notorious Edinburgh crime boss and a frequent antagonist throughout the Rebus series. Although he has a brief cameo in the third novel Tooth and Nail, he first appears as a main character in The Black Book. Physically intimidating, as well as being ruthless and manipulative, he is one of Scotland's most powerful gangsters. He controls an organization that can apply intimidation, coercion, bribery, and murder to achieve his goals, but he is quite willing...
The Weasel
The Weasel is Cafferty's second in command, who represents him in Edinburgh while he is in HM Prison Barlinnie. Cafferty informs Rebus that the Weasel's surname is Jeffries. He gained the nickname from Rebus for looking like a weasel. His shabby appearance disguises his important rôle in Cafferty's organisation. In The Hanging Garden, the Weasel finds the juvenile joyrider who knocked down Sammy Rebus, and is ready to facilitate Rebus's revenge on him; Rebus, however, is horrified when he rea...
Darryl Christie
Darryl Christie is a young Edinburgh gangster who appears in the later Rebus novels. He is the teenage brother of a serial killer's victim in Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012), but he has a plan to take over the business of his mother's lover, a gangster. When he accomplishes this, he and Cafferty agree to respect each other. In Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013) he trades favors with Rebus, and in Even Dogs in the Wild (2014) he saves Fox's life. However, in Rather be the Devil(2015) he...
Rhona
Rhona is Rebus's ex-wife. When she married him, she was divorced. She teaches English in school. She appears primarily in three novels: she is part of Rebus's background in the first novel, Knots and Crosses (1987); in Tooth and Nail (1992) Rebus visits her and Sammy in London; and in The Hanging Garden (1998) she comes to Edinburgh to sit by Sammy's bedside after the latter's accident (bringing her current partner with her). In A Song for the Dark Times(2020), we read that "Rhona had died a...
Sammy
Samantha "Sammy" Rebus is the only child of Rebus and Rhona, born around 1975 (since she is "nearly twelve" in 1987's Knots and Crosses). She progresses from a child to an adult over the course of the series. In Knots and Crosses she is kidnapped by a serial killer with a personal vendetta against her father. After this traumatic experience, Rhona moves with her to London, where Rebus catches up with them in Tooth and Nail (1992) and discourages an ill-chosen boyfriend. In Let it Bleed(1996),...
Carrie
Carrie is the granddaughter of John Rebus, born around 2013 to Samantha and Keith Grant who was murdered; see A Song for the Dark Times (2020). Carrie was conceived by IVF - a final throw of the dice. She is growing up in a small town in the far north of Scotland.
Resurrection Men, the thirteenth novel in the Inspector Rebus series, is set against the murder of an art dealer in Edinburgh. Rebus is currently being re-trained at Tulliallan for insubordination, but events surface that leads him to question his reasons for being there.
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