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Broadchurch Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Wed, Aug 7, 201347 mins
Ellie Miller returns to the local police station after leave and discovers that Alec Hardy has taken the position she expected. Their professional tension is interrupted when Danny Latimer is found dead on the beach, transforming a peaceful seaside community into a crime scene. As the investigation begins, Ellie and Alec uncover evidence that challenges the initial assumptions surrounding Danny's death. The case draws suspicion inward, placing pressure on families, friendships, and the town's carefully maintained image.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Wed, Aug 14, 201346 mins
After the discovery of Danny Latimer on the beach, the residents of a tight-knit community begin to unravel. DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller lead the investigation, collecting fingerprints and combing through digital footprints that alienate even the closest friends. Tension spikes as the police uncover hidden caches of money and drugs, while a local psychic disrupts the station with intrusive claims. The pressure mounts when Mark Latimer fails to provide a credible alibi for his whereabouts on the night of the crime. Evidence of a cleaned hut and matching blood prints pull the family into the center of the investigation, forcing the lead detectives to question who can be trusted.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Wed, Aug 21, 201348 mins
The investigation intensifies as Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller uncover physical evidence on a boat belonging to Mark Latimer. Suspicion mounts when Mark provides a false alibi regarding his location on the night of the murder. As Beth Latimer struggles to process her husband's deception and a disturbing supernatural claim from a stranger, the police tighten their net around the primary suspect. Mark eventually confesses to an extramarital affair that destroys his remaining credibility, leaving his family isolated. Tensions culminate on the coastline, where hidden truths and a sudden fire threaten the fragile peace of the community.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Wed, Aug 28, 201348 mins
Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller intensify their search for a killer as physical evidence ties the victim, Danny Latimer, to a burned boat found offshore. Suspicions fall heavily on local figures, including Jack Marshall, whose past convictions and unexplained connections draw desperate scrutiny from the police and the local press. Tensions ignite between the mourning family and the invasive media, forcing the investigators to balance public pressure with the cold reality of forensic leads. As the town edges toward a breaking point, personal secrets and past trauma begin to compromise the investigation, leaving everyone vulnerable to the truth hidden beneath the surface of this quiet coastal community.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
Wed, Sep 4, 201349 mins
More clues come to light - cigarette butts found near the body and the fact that the burnt-out boat belonged to Ellie's ex- brother-in-law who left his wife Lucy, Olly's mother in debt when he left town. At the same time Tom, Ellie's son, meets Susan Wright, who offers to let him walk her dog. Beth threatens Becca over her affair with Mark and is restrained by Paul. She tells Mark she does not want his baby but later they reconcile over family photos. Jack Marshall comes under increasing suspicion as Karen tutors Olly - with whom she has sex - into writing a piece on the newsagent for her paper. Chloe is convinced of Jack's guilt after boyfriend Dean says Jack was always touching the sea scout boys but Jack later admits to the police and to Mark that his previous conviction was for having sex with a young girl, whom he later married. They had a son who died in a car crash aged six and the boys he hugged are substitutes for his dead son. Not everybody is convinced and a hate campaign against Jack develops.
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
Wed, Sep 11, 201349 mins
Following Jack's suicide Hardy is dubbed the worst cop in England by tabloids. The town turns out to the funeral, Karen's presence, since she has returned to London being unwelcome in view of her piece on Jack. Paul's sermon lambastes Jack's persecutors but Hardy, seeing him close to sea scouts, is suspicious and discovers that the young vicar is a reformed alcoholic who hit a boy when he was still drinking. As summer turns to autumn Beth bonds with Cate Gillespie, the mother of another murdered child, who hates Hardy for his ineptitude in handling her case. Maggie and Olly discover damning evidence regarding Susan's ex-husband and after she has given Tom Danny's skateboard, saying she was looking after it, she is brought in by the police, Nige stealing her dog. Ellie and Hardy are called out when an intruder is sighted at the murder scene but he evades them and Hardy collapses again.
Episode 7
Episode #1.7
Wed, Sep 18, 201349 mins
Hardy wakes in hospital and confesses to Ellie that he has heart arrhythmia but feels he must see the case through and quickly returns to work. He later tells Maggie and Olly that it was his ex- wife, also a police officer, who ruined the Gillespie case and he took the blame for her. Ellie questions Susan, who mistrusts the police after her husband killed their daughter and hanged himself in prison. She is certain that, whilst out walking her dog at night and smoking cigarettes, she saw Nige bring Danny's body ashore in a boat. She also informs the police that she believes Nige is the son she gave up for adoption and that he has inherited his father's murderous ways. Paul advises Beth not to reject her unborn baby and she and Mark feel happier after seeing the results of her scan. Paul also gives Hardy Tom's lap-top, which the boy was trying to destroy and informs him that Tom said he hated Danny. Working late and alone, Hardy receives an important email.
Episode 8
Episode #1.8
Wed, Sep 25, 201353 mins
Hardy finds Tom's computer, which reveals that he fell out with Danny after the latter found a new friend. At the same time, following an email Hardy traces Danny's phone to the person Ellie's sister Lucy saw dispose of a bundle on the night of the killing. This is the new friend, who makes a confession tying in with what Susan thought she saw and with Steve's psychic vision, a person whose repressed love for Danny led to a terrible conclusion after Danny threatened to expose the relationship. Shock, rather than relief, takes hold of Broadchurch as a result before the town comes together to light beacons in Danny's memory.
