The premise had a short life. The premise is a prominent police inspector is punished with a desk job as far from police work as possible after his superintendent was driven from the force. His new duty is overseeing the files tied to unsolved cases. Out of mostly duty and perhaps boredom, the detective begins investigating the cases on his own. The flaw with that premise is, how can this one detective aided by two administrative civil servants succeed in solving too many cases without it seeming preposterous or before the detective being reassigned back to active police duty after doing such incredible police work? All of the cases already led to dead ends with leads that had long since dried up.
The writer/writers figured that flaw out quick enough so the stories mostly relate to the main characters and other things like stumbling on current crimes occurring instead of a bunch of old unsolved cases. Of course, that makes the title somewhat confusing, doesn't it?
Maybe it isn't the best sign but I think I remember most how absolutely horrendous all of the weather appears in the location shootong for this series. I know it's England but come on! Even the Avengers had some sunny days. Engima Files isn't the greatest show I've seen in this genre but it is respectible.
