Who knows the ways of IP lawyers and all the other people who really control entertainment, but it’s taken nearly 30 years for series television to fully get its teeth – pun intended – into The Silence of the Lambs. Not Hannibal Lecter, of course – Bryan Fuller’s gruesome 2013 drama, Hannibal, was an excellent study of the man who cancelled fava beans – but the story of agent Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster in the original.

And when you think about it, there’s plenty more to ponder with Clarice: what does it do to a fledgling agent when they’ve been through something like that cellar session with Buffalo Bill and his yappy dog? Did she keep in touch with the girl whose life she saved? What happened next?

There is an interesting drama to be written about the future adventures of Agent Starling. Clarice (Alibi), unfortunately, isn’t it, but rather a by-numbers procedural. It’s a year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs and Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) is dragged from her bunker in the Behavioural Science unit back in to the field. She’s wanted on an elite FBI unit set up by the mother of the girl she saved back in Buffalo. There’s a new killer on the loose. He’s not very nice. And so, haunted by her past, Clarice needs to profile the killings while proving herself to her fellow agents.