All in all, it's a sequence of events that just happen.
It has to be said though that the ending is neater than in the book. It's not that both murderers are flat characters, we just never learn anything about them. We learn nothing about the motives of either murderer- they just do it. Rebus' moods, his drinking problems and depressions are really very well depicted and perfectly acted by Hannah and there certainly is a violent and dark streak to him. John Hannah is a convincing Rebus, just the way I imagined him. So it was not the best choice for the first adaptation.
The novels finishes with too many lose ends. That is mainly the case because the original murder series is never really investigated and the focus is on the copycat murder which also remains superficial.
Black and Blue is possibly the weakest of the Rebus novels.
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