Emilia Fox
as Angel
Director: David Drury
Writers: Peter Ransley
Fallen Angel is an ITV series broadcast on 11–13 March 2007 based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor. It tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has a unique narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the layers of Rosie's past.
Emilia Fox
as Angel
Charles Dance
as David Byfield
Mark Benton
as Eddie
Claudie Blakley
as Sally
Clare Holman
as Wendy
Noma Dumezweni
as Carla
Barbara Wilshere
as Audrey Oliphant
Jade Sharif
Oliver Dimsdale
as Michael
Peter Capaldi
as Henry Appleton
Sheila Hancock
as Lady Youlgreave
John Standing
as Voice of Francis Youlgreave
Niamh Cusack
as Vanessa Byfield
James D'Arcy
as Toby Clifford
Patrick Godfrey
as Hugh Treevor
Cara Horgan
as Joanna Clifford
Donald Sumpter
as Simon Martlesham
Helen Ryan
as Angel's Neighbor
Emma Fielding
as Janet Byfield
The Four Last Things is set in 2007 North London when a young girl is kidnapped by a serial killer who calls herself Angela Wharton or 'Angel'. The show starts with the ordination of a female curate - Mary Appleton - as the first female curate in the fictitious diocese of Roslington. However, she is heckled by an old lady called Audrey Oliphant. Her carer, Angela Wharton, also appears in the background behind the altar. Her parents are sent on a wild goose chase after 'Angel' leaves a number of child's body parts around the city.
We go to 1987 when Angel (Rosie) is 16 and applying for university, in Roth, in 1987 starting with her exams finishing and her going to stay with her father, the parish priest only to find out he has been married.
Going back even farther, this episode focuses on Rosie's childhood when her father was a dean at Roslington Cathedral in 1973. Wendy Appleton comes to stay with the family after breaking up with her husband and finds her friend's marriage is in just as bad a shape.