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The mystery of Bleak House deepens as Tulkinghorn is shot...
Tulkinghorn (Charles Dance) dramatically departs BBC ONE's compulsive drama Bleak
House tonight (Friday 2 December).
In a scene reminiscent of Dallas in the Eighties, Tulkinghorn is shot when a
mysterious figure confronts him in his office.
But he is not as lucky as JR, who survived his assassination attempt.
We don't find out who did it until next week, but these are the key suspects...
Lady Dedlock (Gillian Anderson);
Captain George (Hugo Speer);
Guppy (Burn Gorman);
Hortense, the maid (Lilo Baur);
Smallweed (Phil Davis).
Tulkinghorn has his judgement day along with most of the villains in Bleak House, and some of the good guys,
too.
The murder mystery is said to be one of the first in literature, paving the way
for the likes of Agatha Christie and PD James.
With Bleak House originally being told in monthly instalments, readers were
guessing "whodunit" for weeks before the real culprit was revealed.
"There's a murky figure - you never see who it is," says Dance, who recently made
his directorial debut with Ladies In Lavender, starring Dame Judi Dench and Maggie
Smith.
And did Tulkinghorn deserve what he got?
"Oh yes he did," he says, with a twinkle
in his eye.
It wasn't a surprise for Dance to play a character who comes to a sticky end.
"I've died in most things I've been in," he laughs. "I've been shot, I've hung
myself and I've exploded. I survived in The Jewel In The Crown though, but I've
died in quite a lot!"
The 'hanging' took place in another Charles Dickens adaptation - a TV version of The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby (2001) in
which Dance played Ralph Nickleby.
Bleak House, BBC ONE, Thursdays at 8.00pm and Fridays at 8.30pm, repeated on Sundays
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