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Silent Witness Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1999 - 1999
Episode 1
Gone Tomorrow: Part 1
120 mins
Now installed in London as a Professor at the university, Sam Ryan is called to assist when a helicopter carrying 16 men crashes in the North Sea en route to a drilling platform. The pilot's body is recovered and the autopsy reveals he suffered a heart attack between the time he sent a distress signal and the time the helicopter crash. He had recently postponed his annual medical check-up but Sam suspects there is more to this than meets the eye. In completing the autopsies on the recovered bodies, it seems that the aircraft may have suffered a catastrophic failure.
Episode 2
Gone Tomorrow: Part 2
Tue, Jun 1, 199949 mins
After a helicopter sends out a mayday and disappears in a storm en route to provide support to an off-shore oil rig, Sam is called upon to participate on the rescue team in case it turns into a recovery team.
Episode 3
A Kind of Justice: Part 1
120 mins
Brian McNally is a one-time criminal with a major problem. The day after he is badly beaten by gangster Mike Georghiou, McNally finds Georghiou's strangled body at his business. He's convinced that Mike's brother Tony, also a gangster known for his violent streak, will come after him so he gets Sam Ryan to prove that he couldn't have been the killer. Sam does so but when McNally's body is found at the foot of a building, a supposed suicide, she feels she has somehow contributed to his death. What Sam doesn't realize is the is not only going up against organized crime but coppers who've acted as judge, jury and executioner.
Episode 4
A Kind of Justice: Part 2
Wed, Jun 9, 199949 mins
Following the death of murder suspect Brian McNally, Sam Ryan is approached by his daughter.
Episode 5
A Good Body: Part 1
96 mins
Sam Ryan is reunited with newly promoted DCI Michael Connor when they investigate a fire in a cinema. Sam manages to identify all but one of the 12 victims, body #10. As she gathers more information, including the use of a facial reconstruction, she comes to believe that body #10 is in fact someone who was supposed to have been killed years before and for which Chris Caldwell was convicted of murder. Sam becomes quite attracted to him and manages to get him set free, but when others are subsequently murdered, Connor doesn't believe Caldwell is quite as innocent as Sam believes.
Episode 6
A Good Body: Part 2
Wed, Jun 16, 199948 mins
Having learned that violent criminal Chris Caldwell may have been wrongly convicted for murder, Sam and DCI Michael Connor are eager to get at the truth.