Above Suspicion
Young Detective Constable Anna Travis joins the team led by D.C.I. Langton to investigate a series of gruesome murders of young women, which first began eight years previously. All the victims were prostitutes and all killed in the same way. Then a seventh body is found but this is the corpse of a student, though a vital piece of evidence links her death to the others, involving a house in Manchester where Alan Daniels, a popular young actor, grew up. Anna goes undercover to get to know him better but finds herself getting emotionally involved.
- 2009-2012
- 4 seasons
- Acorn Media Group
- Suspense, Drama
Young Detective Constable Anna Travis joins the team led by D.C.I. Langton to investigate a series of gruesome murders of young women, which first began eight years previously. All the victims were prostitutes and all killed in the same way. Then a seventh body is found but this is the corpse of a student, though a vital piece of evidence links her death to the others, involving a house in Manchester where Alan Daniels, a popular young actor, grew up. Anna goes undercover to get to know him better but finds herself getting emotionally involved.
Season 4 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2012
Episode 1
Silent Scream: Part 1
47 mins
Angered at being passed over for promotion to commander in favour of the younger,less experienced Sam Power,Langton knows it is because of his failure to capture drug dealer Fitzpatrick and believes a staff member informed on him. He now heads the investigation into the murder of temperamental,promiscuous film star Amanda Delany who slept with married men and had a hysterectomy following an abortion and was seemingly about to embark on tell-tale memoirs. She mistrusted her agent Andrea Lesser as being greedy and was estranged from her parents.However Langton and Anna Travis are more interested in a crucifix found on the corpse and apparently not hers. The day before the murder Amanda told her stand-in she had been woken in the night by a woman's scream and her ex-drama school colleagues in the squat she once shared with them tell the police that she would silently scream in her sleep. Then one of them is killed.
Episode 2
Silent Scream: Part 2
46 mins
The police interview Amanda's three actor lovers - Scott Myers and Sean O'Dell admit to a threesome with her after which Sean owns to losing his crucifix. Amanda's stuffed toy rabbit in which she kept her drugs has also gone. A crucifix is also found by the body of Amanda's former college mate Dan,whose death was caused by a drug overdose - the police believe it was accidental and self-imposed. However the two girls he shared with clearly have something to hide. After interviewing Josh Lyons,who was going to publish Amanda's scandalous memoir,Anna convinces Langton she did not ruin his promotion chances. The police also pull in Helena Mitchell,wife of another of Amanda's lovers,who visited her to ask her to end the affair but left while she was still alive. She does however report seeing a man at the flat. Then another corpse is found.
Episode 3
Silent Scream: Part 3
47 mins
After the body of Felicity Turner,another of Amanda's old flatmates, is dragged from the river,the remaining college contemporary Jeanie Bale is brought in. She admits to having Amanda's diary,which she was planning to sell to Mr Delany for five thousand pounds after an unsuccessful attempt to blackmail Andrea Lesser. The diary also reveals that Lester James,the youngest of the three brothers who acted as Amanda's drivers,was also her lover and pusher,and the man Helena saw at the flat. Jeanie admits that Felicity accidentally fell into the river after a fight when Felicity refused to capitalise on the diary but she pleads not guilty to Amanda's murder. As CCTV evidence unmasks the killer and Langton finds out who betrayed him Anna gets a call from the District Commissioner regarding her fast track promotion.