Taggart Season 25 Episodes

7 Episodes 2008 - 2009

Series 25 of the long-running Glasgow-set police drama finds the team investigate more suspicious deaths and shady characters. The cases begin with the brutal murder of an anti-violence campaigner. The team then enter unfamiliar territory when their investigations lead them into the city's Polish community, a mining village, and the world of psychics. Later in the series Ross feels responsible for the murder of one of his informants, after his contact book is stolen.

Episode 1

Safer

Mon, Nov 3, 2008 60 mins

A campaigner against domestic violence is murdered and the prime suspect is an apparently reformed man whose violent behaviour once drove his ex-wife to almost kill him in self defence. Although the team is able to build a solid case against him, the investigation is put in jeopardy when Ross suffers a moment of madness.

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Episode 2

Homesick

Mon, Dec 8, 2008 60 mins

Zbigniew Lisowski, a Polish migrant worker, is found shot at the building site where he worked as a security guard. Hours later, the body of hotel receptionist Kate Booth is discovered - with strikingly similar gunshot wounds. When investigations reveal that Kate - aka Kasia - was also Polish, the team have to consider whether a racially-motivated killer is at large.

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Episode 3

Crossing the Line

Mon, Dec 15, 2008 60 mins

Preparations are underway for a new museum in the former mining community of Garsden on the outskirts of Glasgow. The museum will be on the site of a long disused coal mine, closed twenty five years before, just before the miners' strike. But when the shaft is opened up, two skeletons are found - a man and a woman in the same position as they died a quarter of a century earlier. Were they buried alive? Who are they? How did they get there - and were they murdered?

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Episode 4

Cold Reader

Fri, Feb 20, 2009 60 mins

A young student is abducted and her mother's psychic advisor approaches the team and claims to be able to trace the girl's whereabouts. As usual, Burke is more than a little sceptical, but when he finds that all leads seem to be going nowhere, he reluctantly attends one of the psychic's shows, becoming unsettled as she tells him things about his father no-one else could know. As a result he begins to wonder if there is more to her than initially meets the eye.

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Episode 5

Grass

Thu, Apr 30, 2009 60 mins

DI Robbie Ross starts to feel the heat when Thomas Duffy, one of his informants, is brutally murdered, and the word 'grass' daubed in paint at the crime scene. Duffy's name appeared in Ross's contact book - which was stolen by a woman Ross took home with him. Ross knows he must speak up, but before he does, another name from the book turns up dead. Can he solve the case before his career becomes the next casualty?

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Episode 6

The Knife Trick

Thu, May 7, 2009 60 mins

When a law professor is accidentally stabbed to death in front of 30 trainee police officers during a training exercise it appears at first to be just a tragic accident. But when the team discover that the knife was tampered with, it soon turns into a murder enquiry. The team have 30 eye witnesses - but do the trainees really hold the key to solving the crime?

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Episode 7

So Long Baby

Sun, Jul 19, 2009 60 mins

Having clocked off work the night before his holiday, DI Ross finds an abandoned baby gurgling on a doorstep on his walk home. After ringing the doorbell but getting no response, Ross checks round the back only to discover a French window wide open and a dead man lying in a pool of blood. Are the baby and the victim connected? Ross calls in the team to help with the investigation.

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