New role for ‘Equalizer’

Press, 23 July 1986, Page 17

New role for ‘Equalizer’

Edward Woodward the star of “The Equalizer,” is a self-made, successful businessman whose happiness is threatened which ever way he turns in “Killer Contract,” a oneepisode programme on Two at 8.30 p.m. Woodward plays Bill Routledge, who, in four weeks, is due to open a new, high-technology factory. Then he learns that his 20-year-old daughter Celia (Caroline Bliss) has been kidnapped during a student rag week stunt.

The ransom price demanded is complete shutdown: “Stop production or your daughter dies.”

Routledge is convinced he knows who is behind the abduction and the threats, and why, but he has no proof. His new factory will specialise in the manufacture of micro components, which will make him a market rival to his former company in a very narrow field. This consortium is also unhappy at losing its electronics expert, Hugh

Dexter, to Routledge. It is Dexter’s latest brain-child that has enabled Routledge to set up on his own.

Should Routledge inform the police and risk his daughter’s life, or stop the launch and destroy his life’s work?

His cold, calculating ambition cost him Celia’s love when he divorced her mother and, even now, his second wife, Joan, is beginning to show signs of discontent