The 'Code of Silence' Trailer Will Have You Questioning Everything

BritBox has not set a premiere date as yet for the U.S. debut of Code of Silence, but in the U.K., ITV has it slated for mid-May. The new, wholly original police procedural hails from writer Catherine Moulton, who PBS viewers will know from her work on Baptiste, Lark Rise to Candleford, and The Good Karma Hospital. Moulton is partially deaf and a hearing aid user, an overlooked subsection of the Deaf community who live in the in-between of the hearing world and the deaf one; her experiences with lip reading inspired her to create the series, starring a Deaf employee of a police station who gets promoted to join a case and "listen" to the suspects when listening devices cannot be used.

However, as the first trailer shows, just because someone is "differently abled" (and being able to read lips from a distance is a pretty good ability to have), you can't just promote them to detective out of the canteen. The most obvious is that someone without training may not know all the rules that need to be followed to avoid compromising the case. More importantly, having been trained means having been taught to have the emotional discipline not to get involved.

Unfortunately, while the first can be taught on the fly, the second is much harder to police, especially when the workday ends, but your new team member has no experience in letting things lie until tomorrow...