Jekyll is a 2006 six-part drama made by the BBC and serves as a sequel to the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. James Nesbitt takes on the dual roles of Dr Tom Jackman and My Hyde. Gina Bellman takes on the role of Jackman’s wife Claire with Michelle Ryan starring as psychologist Katherine Reimer.

New Century, New Jekyll

Dr Jackman (Nesbitt) is a married man with two children; unfortunately he has inexplicably started transforming into Mr Hyde (also Nesbitt). The pair have managed to reach a compromise, they essentially have a timeshare agreement, and communicate with one another using a Dictaphone. Hyde doesn’t know that Jackman is married and spends his time drinking, smoking and having sex with prostitutes.

Katherine (Ryan) works for both and relays messages between the pair. She is safe from Hyde because Jackman has set up a series of cameras in the apartment he lives in to keep Hyde away from his family, and Hyde knows that if he harms anyone Jackman will turn himself in to the police.