Behind the crimes and the viscera is Wolfe Kinteh’s struggle to create two families. “It was lifestyle envy.” He created in fiction what he lacked in reality. The short stories he wrote were about what he didn’t know. His fellow patients were, he noted, adult returnees suffering from cyclical depression. At 15, he attempted suicide and was sectioned, pumped with medication and locked up for 28 days. “Everything you did was in the imperative: we have got to get money.” He used to get up at 4am to do a paper round, because it gave him space away from domestic bedlam to think.īut thinking provoked a depression. Like his siblings, he didn’t go to school much but instead had several jobs in his early teens. His 16-year-old pregnant eldest sister assumed the maternal role. At 11, his father went, too – the former was traumatic the latter, he says, a salvation. When he was nine, his mother left to live with another man. He started when he was a teenager as an antidote to the unbearableness of living in a Burnley sink estate in a family so dysfunctional, he tells me, that it passed under the radar of social services.
Photograph: Contract Number (Programme)/Channel 4 Picture Publicity So, arguably, is Paul Abbott.Īntidote … Shameless mirrored Abbott’s own upbringing. Wolfe is forensic pathology’s retort to Fitz, the hero of Cracker, the drama about a forensic psychologist created by fellow Corrie stalwart Jimmy McGovern, for which Abbott wrote in the 90s.
It’s that he is never more alive, never more wired than when going wildly off-grid. But it’s not just that Wolfe is breaking and entering, nor that he is illegally using his work skills to get the dope on her new lover. He breaks in and collects DNA from the semen on her sheets. We first see the professor, played by the compelling Babou Ceesay, scaling the garden wall of his ex’s house. His glee when he’s bending the rules or solving a case is just like me when I’m on one, when I start writing at 5.30am then come out at 1.30am with 16 pages.” “I’m bipolar and Wolfe’s manic episodes are like mine. Rather, Wolfe is, yet again, the result of Abbott dredging his own psyche for flaws to project on to a character. Will Wolfe be denounced as inaccurate? “No. On Children’s Ward, which he wrote when he was hardly out of his teens but already a Coronation Street staffer, Abbott often made up illnesses and the drugs to treat them. “Can’t watch it.”Ībbott has long revelled in writing what he calls barely feasible stuff. No!” Then there is another moment in which Wolfe tries to talk a woman down from the roof of a Manchester high rise. It’s when they stick the needle in the vitreous humour,” he says. “I wrote two scenes I can’t bear to watch.” The one where the stomach of a ricin-addled corpse explodes over Wolfe’s colleagues while he dives for cover, knowing what’s coming? “Not that one.” When a body projectile vomits a pacemaker that one of Wolfe’s team later ingeniously hacks for data? “Not that either. “I always have the subtitles on because my hearing’s not great, and her reading is advanced because of them.”Ībbott has a weaker stomach than his daughter.
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“When Wolfe examines the body parts, she goes: ‘They’re plastic!’” TV has also helped her to read. Allowing your seven-year-old to watch gory TV is doubtless contrary to Mumsnet parenting parameters, but Abbott family values have made her an astute critic.
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