The third episode concentrated on the legal case to convict Dennis Nilsen. The police think they have their man. After all Nilsen casually confessed to everything.

Of course Nilsen knowing he will get life for murder, goes for diminished responsibility. This means he would be convicted of manslaughter with the judge having discretion with the sentence.

The police express surprise at this for some reason. Given that Nilsen was looking at life in prison, it would had been expected that he would make such a move.

It was not much of a drama to see the police moping about and complaining about this.

It actually made me think that maybe the writers should had looked at this drama from the point of view of the victims.

I read a comment online from a gay man who when he was much younger he had moved from his closeted little town to London in the early 1980s. Knowing next to nothing of the London gay scene, he found himself in the kind of gay pubs that Nilsen frequented.

It was only when he befriended someone who warned him of some of the pubs and clubs to avoid, pointed out some of the unsavoury characters who hung around these places. Tha man felt that as a naive inexperienced new lad in the city, he could had easily fallen prey to someone like Nilsen.