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The Coroner Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
The Drop Zone
49 mins
Rafe Phelps, owner of the Drop Zone sky-diving school, is killed when his parachute fails to open, the cords having been cut. Devastated widow Jess has long feared for his safety but feels excluded from his work clique, co-owner and ex-lover Lori, drink-loving mechanic Eddie and fellow diver young Stix, all claiming to revere him. Rafe drew out a large sum of money before died arousing Jane's suspicions but medical records provide a clue to solving the case.
Episode 2
Perfectly Formed
45 mins
Building work on a deserted and long-abandoned cottage unearths a baby's skeleton from forty years earlier. The link is made to a former children's home and three orphans who lived there, siblings Lee and Sara Millar, Karen Shaw and a mystery girl none of them can - or will - recognize. Phil Tate, son of the home's former warden, is believed to be the child's father but a bizarre discovery leads to the mother being identified and to a scandal several people allied to keep quiet.
Episode 3
Those in Peril
45 mins
Erica Ryland, a member of the local lifeboat crew, drowns when she is washed overboard but Jane believes her life-jacket was deliberately sabotaged. The boat's skipper Chrissy Woodward tells Jane that Erica was not happy with boyfriend Phillip and had a termination without telling him. Soon afterwards another crew member, Bob Fountain, is murdered and Chrissy survives an attempt to kill her too. Jane realizes that the crew members are being punished for their part in a murder from several years earlier and must act fast to save another victim.
Episode 4
The Beast of Lighthaven
45 mins
After Beth shows him a photo of a dead sheep on the nearby moors journalist Ben Fairhead approaches her claiming there is a big cat at large though he is disbelieved by all except farmer John Roxwell. Then Ben is savagely killed, apparently by a wild animal and his ex-girlfriend, John's daughter Gemma tells Jane he believed the beast killed his mother who disappeared fifteen years earlier - though in fact her murderer was caught. Jane however is convinced that Ben's killer was not feline but a human anxious to prevent him from exposing a guilty secret.
Episode 5
The Captain's Pipe
45 mins
After an argument with Mick, Tam Bryant, landlord of rival pub the Captain's Pipe is found dead beneath a rock-fall though Jane learns that he was actually killed by a blow to the head after meeting a mysterious caller in the secret tunnel leading from his pub to the beach. As children Mick, Tam and Tam's ex-wife Roz used the tunnel as their playground and Mick, as chief suspect, is arrested. Jane works with Davey to interview members of Tam's family to clear his name.
Episode 6
Life
44 mins
Called to the local jail after inmate Charlie Macendrick has over-dosed Jane is approached by his cell-mate Sidney Sutton, a man accused of murdering Sophie Marks eight years earlier though no body was found. Sutton tells Jane that Macendrick was killed by another prisoner Malik Negasi, who soon afterwards absconds, helped by greedy officer Ben Arnold in a quest to find money supposedly hidden by Macendrick. Jane soon realizes that one of the parties involved is manipulating her for their own advantage but must first rescue her daughter Beth, who has been abducted by a desperate man in order to learn the truth about two murders and to locate Sophie's body.
Episode 7
Perfect Pair
44 mins
A young man is found dead on a country road beside a Porsche but the car's owner, haughty entrepreneur Jason Daniels and his wife Anna claim not to know him with Jason telling Davey the car was stolen. The dead man turns out to be window-cleaner Fred Clegg, who borrowed Jason's car to pass himself off as a wealthy pilot to a girl he met on the Perfect Pair dating site and since he was driving the Porsche Davey assumes he was mistaken for Jason, the intended victim, particularly after a bizarre confession from Jason himself. Jane however thinks differently and sets out to prove it.
Episode 8
The Foxby Affair
45 mins
Twenty years earlier aristocrat Jerry Foxby went on the run after accidentally killing escort Helen Boyd. Now, hearing that Jerry's brother Oliver wants him declared officially dead so that he can inherit his title, a woman approaches Jane claiming to be Helen Boyd but is found dead next day. Evidence suggests that Oliver murdered her to silence her about what really happened to Jerry but Jane believes Oliver's wife is holding back information about a secret deal struck twenty years before
Episode 9
Pieces of Eight
44 mins
During the town's Pirate festival robbers in appropriate fancy dress pull off a wage snatch at the same time that Jane finds a body washed up on the beach. Ruby Hamilton, cleaner for arrogant businessman Don Shapur, claims it is her husband Dick but Dick is very much alive, a key robbery suspect who goes on the run. Shapur's unhappy son Kass incriminates his father as being in on the heist as he is broke but Kass is himself being manipulated by an unlikely robber, one of a trio out for revenge.
Episode 10
Crash
45 mins
Seventeen year old Ellie Patterson, daughter of Mick's former barmaid Debbie, is killed in a car crash but the post mortem reveals that she was the passenger, the driver apparently having left her to die. Prime suspect is boyfriend Nick Caldwell but he has an alibi and tells Davey that Ellie was seeing another man. However all prints have been wiped clean from the car. At the funeral Debbie makes an impassioned plea for the driver to own up but it is Beth's unsuitable friend Megan who has the answer.
