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Guest star: Danny Midwinter plays Corporal Daniel Blakemore (episodes 3 & 4)

Corporal Daniel Blakemore has never been a believer in superstition. But after a life-changing peacekeeping term in post-war Bosnia the once level-headed soldier emerges damaged and scared.

His perception of reality is altered through guilt as he watches a local woman and child die in a minefield.

Confused and troubled, he goes on the run convinced he can foresee his own death, having been cursed by the dying woman's last breath.

For actor Danny Midwinter it was the most demanding role of his career.

"No-one knows what I went through playing this character. It was exhausting as this guy is on edge 24/7," says Danny, with a grin.

"I always try and get as deep into a part as I can and this is without question the hardest character I have played so far. You can't hold back on a role like this and by the end of it you start to feel like you're losing your mind as well.

"One day, I'd spent the whole day falling down a mine shaft to film a scene where he's having a vision of his own death. All day long, just supposedly falling to your death. Over and over again.

"That evening I went back to my hotel room, sat in the bath and it kind of hit me what I'd been doing and I broke down. That's how draining it was.

"Some of the crew probably thought I was a bit nuts during filming but it was worth it because it's a brilliant story."

The baffled soldier is desperate to find someone who can explain what's happening to him and what his visions mean.

The parapsychology team try to help him work through his trauma and Monaghan does his best to show Daniel that his problems are rooted in his past.

"Daniel goes to the unit as a last ditch attempt to find out what's going on. He's on that thin line between sanity and insanity, but he's still sane enough to know that Monaghan and his team might be the last people who can actually help him.

"He is totally freaked out and on edge all of the time - because he knows he is doomed," explains Hertfordshire born Danny, who has appeared in Kavanagh QC, Murphy's Law and on the big screen in From Hell alongside Johnny Depp.

Not helping matters is the 'treatment' Daniel is receiving from sinister army medical officer Lt Colonel Petra Summers (played by Barbara Flynn).

"He thinks that she has screwed his mind up by keeping him in bed and giving him drugs and that's why he breaks out," adds Danny.

"The poor guy was quite happy-go-lucky and confident before this. Now he's convinced this curse is ruining his life.

"Under normal circumstances he is a just a nice guy from a stable background who is trying to do the right thing. I don't think he deserved this to happen to him at all."

And does Danny believe in the paranormal himself?

"Well, I won't walk under a ladder and 90 per cent of the public would probably agree with me. So I do believe there is some kind of external force out there, but quite what that actually is - well, I haven't clue."