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Jun 1, 2018 · The Cuckoo's Calling: Part 1: Directed by Michael Keillor. With Elarica Johnson, Amber Anderson, Kadiff Kirwan, Bronson Webb. When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Michael Keillor
- 2018-06-01
The Cuckoo's Calling: Episode 1. Contains some strong language. Drama series based on the novel by Robert Galbraith. Cormoran Strike, an injured war veteran turned PI, investigates the truth ...
Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling Ep 1. 7 years ago. Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling. Episode One of Three. Directed by Michael Keillor.
The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction [1] novel written by J. K. Rowling, and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. [2] It is the first novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was followed by The Silkworm in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018, Troubled Blood in 2020 and The Ink Black Heart in 2022.
- Why Did John Kill Lula?
- Who Was Charlie, and Why Did He Matter?
- Why Was The Will Important?
- How Did John Kill Lula?
- Why Were The Flowers So significant?
- Who Killed Rochelle?
- Why Was Tansy Bestigui Out on The balcony?
- Why Did Tony’s False Alibi Confirm John’s Guilt?
- What Evidence Convinced The Police?
- And Finally....Why on Earth Did John Hire Strike in The First place?
After finding out that Lula (Elarica Johnson) had tracked down her biological half-brother Jonah Agyeman (Abubakar Salim), adoptive brother John (Leo Bill) became furious, feeling that Lula was betraying the family created by their adoptive mother Lady Bristow while also feeling inferior compared to his more loved and successful sibling. This led h...
Charlie Bristow was the brother of John and the son of Lord and Lady Bristow, as well as a childhood friend of Strike’s (giving the detective a connection to the family). The young Charlie died tragically when he rode his bike into a quarry, but his uncle Tony Landry (Martin Shaw) always suspected that an envious John had something to do with the d...
The new will Lula made (revealed to John after he gained re-entry to her flat again later on) would give all her money to Jonah, cutting the Bristow family out entirely. In the episode, Strike (Tom Burke) theorises this is what pushed John into killing her on that night in particular, before the will became known to others. If he killed her that ni...
Departing Lula’s flat after an argument, John decided not to leave her building, instead ducking into the vacant flat on the floor below that was being set up for visiting rapper Deeby Macc. Hiding there he found a black hoody and leather gloves dropped off by fashion designer Guy Somé for Macc, which he wore as a disguise along with some flowers h...
John took the bouquet of flowers from the Deeby Macc flat (sent to the rapper by film producer Freddie Bestigui) to cover his face when Lula answered the door, making her more likely to let him in. Afterwards, the flowers became a key piece of evidence as Lula had not ordered or been sent a bouquet, meaning that they had to have come from within th...
John murdered Rochelle Onifade, Lula’s friend who lived in a shelter, because she knew about the new will (which named Jonah as the sole benefactor). Rochelle successfully extorted money out of John to keep the news quiet for a while, but eventually he decided to kill her after it became clear Strike was trying to get information from her.
Tansy Bestigui (Tara Fitzgerald), a resident on a lower floor of Lula’s building, heard the shouts of Lula and John’s argument as she stood out in the cold of her own balcony. She had been forced out into the snow in her nightie by her abusive husband Freddie, who disapproved of her cocaine habit and aimed to punish her – but instead the treatment ...
During the course of his enquiries Strike discovered that Tansy was having an affair with Lula and John’s uncle Tony, and that his alibi – spending the evening of Lula’s death with Lady Bristow – was in fact false. Initially this caused suspicion to fall on Tony, but when Strike realised Tony was still far away from Lula’s building on the night in ...
The combination of evidence that damned John included directions placed in his satnav to his victim Rochelle’s house (after claiming he’d never heard of her) and DNA evidence transferred by the leather gloves he wore to kill Lula, after he sweated his way through the porous material. The existence of the will, Tansy’s testimony and John’s physical ...
Given his own guilt in the matter, viewers might be left wondering why John hired Strike to investigate the closed case in the first place, with the subsequent enquiry opening the can of worms that eventually led to his own arrest. But while it's not entirely clear in the finished drama, in Rowling's original novel Strike's hiring is presented as J...
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The Cuckoo’s Calling. When troubled model Lula Landry falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran – wounded both physically and psychologically ...
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J.K. Rowling discusses bringing "The Cuckoo's Calling" to the screen with the cast and crew of C.B. Strike.Don't miss the series premiere June 1 at 10PM on C...
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