Complicity

A blurred shot of a dying man on railings pans up to a night scene of Edinburgh Castle, and the title 'Complicity'. The view is of the south-west elevation of the castle, suggesting a camera located on Castle Terrace or King's Stables Road.

Following the murder of his newspaper's proprietor some weeks ago, Cameron is covering a dockside environmental protest, joined by photographer Kenny. Filmed at Granton Harbour, north of Edinburgh, west of Leith as evidenced by comparison with pictures of the piers and the buildings some of which still exist today. This shot looks north with the Fife coastline in the distance.

Kenny at the demo, looking east, with Leith docks just visible behind.

Cameron taking time out, stops his car at a viewpoint overlooking the Forth bridges to check his phone messages. His immediate superior is chasing him for copy, and the mystery man gives him a rendezvous. Filmed on a private road: Lothians View, Castland Hill, Inverkeithing, north of the bridges. Source of location details, Scotland: the Movie Location Guide.

Colley follows instructions and drives to the village of Dunning, Perthshire (name-checked in the film) to get information from his "mole": a series of deaths to check up on. The exact spot is Tron Square, the church St. Serfs. Location confirmed by Scotland: the Movie Location Guide.

After meeting old friends, and then a bruising encounter with his superior, he encounters another contact who reluctantly offers to investigate. A fresh death, this time definitely murder, ups the ante. This farm/industrial location is as yet unknown.

Pondering the past, Cameron crosses the Forth Road Bridge, the old toll booths visible here.

Then we flash back to the same journey with him, Clare and Yvonne after nearly being arrested at a protest.

Now doing less controversial stories, he's off to a distillery for background, though a chance remark by an employee leads Cam to think there's another story here. This is Glenturret, the real name used on notepaper shown on screen, and it can also be read on the casks. (However later on, another fictional name, "Grantside", is mentioned when discussing the distillery owner; possibly a goof). The screenshot shows part of the sign, excluding the name itself. Source Scotland: the Movie Location Guide.

While he was at the distillery a relayed message from Archer told him the next meeting point. Colley goes back to "Strathspell" where he grew up, to wait for a phone call. That name is fictional but it is in Stirlingshire: the village of Kippen. The prop phone box was sited in a lay-by on the B822 Station Road heading out to the north-east. Again Scotland: the Movie Location Guide.

Waiting for the phone to ring, he pauses outside a large house (and via flashback we learn it's Andy's and Claire's house in the village). This is right next to the previous location, as the driveway up to the house is just beyond the lay-by.

Getting the message from the phone box, Cam heads for a nighttime assignation with Yvonne at her house, an Art Deco mansion, supposedly in Fife. In fact this is Gribloch House, built in the late 1930s, sited on a high hill to the south-west of Kippen. (I did find a source for this information some time ago, but have been unable to locate it recently. In any case there are plenty of photos online to which comparisons can be made.)

After a dressing down from his editor, Andy turns up at Cam's flat which leads to a flashback to their younger selves playing by a ruined well/tower in the fields, and trying their first cigarette. Location not yet determined.

Another assignation: Archer has directed Colley to Rosyth, Dock C. In reality this was the now-demolished grain elevator at Imperial Dock, Leith. Verified by comparison with historical images.

After the distillery owner is murdered, the police meet Cameron and his superiors, and take him in for questioning. After a day and a half he's released onto the street, which turns out to be Calton Road, Edinburgh, where it passes under Regent Bridge to the north of Waverley Station.

A closer shot from Malcolm Tinnelly, showing the detail beyond the arch.

Cam relaxes with colleagues in the pub, but undercover cops are watching his movements. He starts a fake fight with Kenny, then uses the confusion to leg it up the lane outside. Filmed at the Saracen Head, Gallowgate, Glasgow. Verifiable by the previous shot out of the door showing the shops opposite (personal recollection of those businesses).

Night-time at Gribloch. An intruder forces himself on Yvonne, but it's Cam, and they're playing one of their kinky games. Afterward he decides to get away from it all for a bit.

Colley heads north, driving through the night, heading for Andy's new place up at Stromeferry: we see the sign for the turn off. This location is as yet, unknown. The sign might be genuine; a later one is definitely fake. (Auchertyre, near the head of Loch Alsh is a feasible location for such a junction, where the road continues west to Kyle or goes north to Stromeferry, but it doesn't match what's on-screen. Some of the roads in the north-west have been re-engineered in the past few decades, upgrading from single-track to single carriageway but it's quite possible this is simply somewhere else.)

Morning comes and Cam reaches a hillside viewpoint overlooking a loch. This is Polnish, on Loch Ailort (which is nowhere near the real Stromeferry). Source Scotland: the Movie Location Guide.

The camera pans over to Andy's place, which is in reality Inverailort House on the eastern side of the loch. Source as above.

This next scene has him arriving at the house (named Inverlarrig in the film) and meeting the other visitors/residents.

The boys head to the dentist after a couple of Andy's visitors have a falling out. This village where they filmed is Lochgoilhead, a good bit further south. Source Scotland: the Movie Location Guide.

Cam reports to the local police his whereabouts. Lochgoilhead, the car park a few yards further down the street.

Andy and Cam have a talk up on the hill, Andy telling him to give it up, let the police deal with the secret caller, though he has some sympathy for the avenger. This again is Polnish, from a slightly different spot.

After a flash back to the friends in their student digs, we're at the phone box in Lochgoilhead village, Cam phoning his colleague Frank to pursue a lead.

Colley then flies off to Jersey following the latest tip-off from Archer, to check it out. Runway location unconfirmed.

Cameron picks up his hire car. Though slightly out-of-focus, the location building in the background matches part of a terminal building at Glasgow Airport.

We're then watching a grand house with a red door and white columns, as someone gloves up in preparation for murder. Location as yet unknown.

Cameron makes a gruesome discovery and flees. We see him later on as he pauses briefly at a junction, a (prop) road sign showing directions to Dingwall and Stromeferry. The car is in fact travelling up the the B834 Station Road, Killearn, Stirlingshire to where it meets the A875 Balfron Road; we see the Old Toll House on the left. (There's nowhere that this signage could be feasible except perhaps at an unclassified junction a fair bit north of Inverness.)

Back at "Inverlarrig" House, night-time. We've just seen Andy in the kitchen, getting up to investigate a noise and then the camera shows us the the exterior.

During Colley's second police interrogation we have more flashbacks, this one where he's trying to calm down Andy after Claire's death, and not succeeding. Another shot of Andy's house. See earlier details for location source.

Inspector McDunn finally forces Cam to realise what's been happening, and reveal a long hidden secret. He's taken under guard back to Strathspell, cars racing here onto the Forth Road Bridge.

Police investigate and find the body of Andy's attacker at the old well. Archer makes contact, and confirms his identity.

The next rendezvous is another phone box, pretty much as described by Archer. Though he fails to call, Cam makes a grim discovery in one of the shop windows. The location is on St. Mary's Street, Edinburgh, which forms a junction with Canongate and High Street. The shot here is half-way down, showing the lane, Boyd's Entry.

After another message relayed to the police, there's a rush to Yvonne's and William's place, but it's too late. We move on to the scattering of the ashes which takes place in Glen Coe, the Three Sisters in the background.

The unchanging Three Sisters.

The waterfall where they gather is about half-a-mile to the east of the Sisters' viewpoint, just off the main road . . .

. . . and Gavin returned to the location.

Cam has time to catch up with Yvonne, this final shot here on an driveway across the main road from the previous screen capture.

Gavin focuses on the building to the left in the screen capture which is now quite derelict and vandalised.

After Cam drives away his car breaks down on the moor. Another motorist stops to help, but Cam knows it's Andy. Before he can do anything, Andy grabs his hand and injects something. This is at the Loch Ba bridge on Rannoch Moor.

The bridge appears to have been re-modelled since filming took place.

Sunrise on the Forth looking over an island to the bridges. Location confirmed as Inchmickery (it's also name checked in the film) by Scotland: the Movie Location Guide

After Andy explains his actions and makes his getaway, Cam summons the police to the island.

Colley and McDunn leave the island.

A final shot of the Forth.