You know, that's exactly what I thought of at the start of the next episode when she was safe and sound in the back of the ambulance.
"That was just like all of those Flash Gordon/Buck Rodgers episodes I used to watch at The Regal on a Saturday morning". However, those serials were aimed at children...Shetland is not.
Oh look, there's the "You smoked yer leg aff/Ah'm carpets" guy from Still Game as the explosives expert.