Tonights TV - A Touch of Frost - Close Encounters

I saw this announced while watching something on ITV1, and I had to watch it.
It portrays how both I and others who have Autism and Asperger's are treated and seen by other, and how we are not understood by the NT, the everyday person.

The opening sequence has a young ufologist, Laurence Burrell, watching the night sky near Denton Quarry. Strange lights come towards him but they resolve into the headlights of a jeep. Men wearing motorbike helmets - giving them an alien appearance - get out of the vehicle and start wrecking and setting fire to the buildings and equipment in the quarry. In the chaos a quarry worker is hit and killed by an iron bar.

Laurence goes to the Denton police babbling about alien abductions, implants, CIA plots and Majestic 12. Not being a ufologist familiar with these topics Detective Inspector Frost laughs at him and ignores him. When the murdered man is found Laurence is promptly regarded as a prime suspect and locked up in the Denton police station cells.

Laurence’s parents reveal that he’s autistic, so he is an expert on UFOs and astronomy, but he takes everything as literally true and has no social skills.

There is a sub-plot about newcomers getting their homes burgled, and an associated case of a missing boy. Through his powers of deduction, and not a little cunning, Frost finds the boy. It transpires that his Father, who works for a removals company, has made a profitable sideline tipping off the burglars.

Through the aid of a local journalist Frost discovers that the owner of the quarry is in dispute with a former business colleague. When the quarry owner is found dead in his wrecked car, Frost’s dullard colleagues are led to believe it’s an ordinary road accident. With his sharp little eyes Frost soon sees that the car was pushed off the road. His investigation leads to the jeep driven by the vandals at the beginning of the programme, and it becomes clear that Laurence was not responsible for the murder at the quarry.

In the meantime, Laurence escapes from his police cell and it’s not long before he’s plundering the explosives shed at the quarry. With this track record he should be a secret agent rather than a ufologist. Like any self-respecting villain he climbs to the top of a rickety tower. It is down to Frost to defuse this potentially explosive situation.

You can buy Close Encounters here: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/productdetails.aspx?catalog=HighStDonated&product=218180