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4 Episodes 1999 - 1999
Episode 1
97 mins
Creegan (Robson Green) returns to duty against official orders as Anthony Matchin Michael Hodgson, a man he helped convict for killing his wife, is released from prison on appeal, returning to his home town of Ellandon. Shortly afterwards, a woman's corpse is found, her heart cut out neatly and left in a nearby garbage bag. The OSC travels to the area as Creegan is convinced that Matchin is not the murderer, only to receive little help from the local force, unhappy at the OSC's intervention.
Episode 2
69 mins
A second victim is discovered, slain in exactly the same fashion as the first and earning the murderer the tag of the Garbage Bag Killer. Creegan (Robson Green) concludes that although the women's husbands were from vastly different walks of life, the killer's motive was not due to hatred of the women but of the men that they left behind - leading him to grief counselor Michael Lawlor (Andy Serkis) before another shocking murder robs the unit of one of their own.
Episode 3
96 mins
His family having moved following their ordeal at Michael Hawkins' (John Duttine) hands Creegan (Robson Green) is deemed fit to return to work but both he and Susan (Nicola Walker) are resentful of bright new colleague Martin Simmons (Andrew Scarborough) brought in to replace the slaughtered Rivers (Shaun Dingwall). A charred corpse is discovered in a disused mental home, bearing the mark "Y Me." A second murder occurs committed in the same way and again "Y Me" is the motive. The victim was last seen in the company of her boyfriend Andy (Kevin Dignam), according to her baby-sitter Lynn Southy (Alison Newman) and he becomes the prime suspect.
Episode 4
51 mins
Susan (Nicola Walker) interviews a noted arsonist imprisoned in France, Jacques Dutronc (Alain Bourgouin), on the psychology of arson whilst both Andy (Kevin Dignam) and another fire-raiser, former asylum inmate Miles Van Der Twemp (Andrew Powell) are cleared as having no links to both murders. A new suspect enters the frame, Susan Etchells (Alison Newman), who was in the asylum under her mother's name, Susan Winters - the latest victim being a teacher who sacked a woman by that name. Creegan (Robson Green) finds that he has to go back to school, literally, to discover the disturbed woman behind the attacks and risk his life to save another victim.