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Waking the Dead Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2000 - 2001
Episode 1
Pilot: Part 1
Mon, Jun 18, 200151 mins
DCI Peter Boyd's new "Cold Case" unit believes that the killer of a young girl found in a landfill site is the man they're looking for in a similar case five years earlier. Tensions arise between the two teams investigating the two crimes, conflicts within the unit, and a killer who seems to delight in taunting the police, especially Boyd.
Episode 2
Pilot: Part 2
50 mins
Jimmy Marshall, the traumatized murderer in the cold case that Boyd's team is investigating, taunts Boyd with information about his current hostage, Jodie Whitemore, and seemingly enjoys playing cat-and-mouse with him. Mel agrees to go undercover as a WPC in order to entrap the elusive psychopath.
Episode 3
Burn Out: Part 1
56 mins
Boyd encounters Marina, a young woman unable to accept the explanation of her father's death, and investigates case When the man's body is exhumed, DNA tests reveal some disturbing facts. The team faces a race against time to protect Marina.
Episode 4
Burn Out: Part 2
56 mins
A newly discovered note seems to set the seal on a suicide verdict, but when Boyd and the team exhume Perry Coleman's body, DNA tests reveal some disturbing facts.
Episode 5
The Blind Beggar: Part 1
59 mins
When a skeleton is discovered in a Church crypt, Boyd and his team suspect it was never meant to be found. The team interview the local community and awaken deeply hidden family secrets. Frankie learns that the skeleton and a priest may be related as both show symptoms of Huntington's Chorea. She discovers the remains are those of a young man who had been buried for 20 years with various ritual items. The hunt is on for the killer and the victim's mother. Meanwhile, the investigation opens old wounds for Boyd, still in despair over the disappearance of his own son.
Episode 6
The Blind Beggar: Part 2
59 mins
Even as the Bowans are planning a fortieth anniversary renewal of vows, it becomes apparent that their union is troubled and long hidden family secrets uncovered by Boyd and his team may hold the key to identifying not only the body uncovered in the church but the recent murder of Father Stuart as well.
Episode 7
A Simple Sacrifice: Part 1
58 mins
The team reopens the 25-year-old case of a woman who was convicted of double murder on the basis of her own confession. Boyd now doubts that Annie Keel really is the murderer. But why did she confess, and what happened to her son who was present when the crimes took place?
Episode 8
A Simple Sacrifice: Part 2
57 mins
A anonymous letter writer, apparently intent on having Annie Keel released after serving twenty-five years for a brutal double homicide, is able to demonstrate that at least one other individual was present during the murders, but who is he, what is his motive, and why has he come forward now after all these years?
Episode 9
Every Breath You Take: Part 1
58 mins
The body of a police officer, who was being stalked, is pulled from the Thames. Boyd and the team track down murdered police officer Debbie's married lover, but he denies killing her. Stalker Christopher Redford is ready to confess to the murder, but Grace is not convinced he's the guilty man.
Episode 10
Every Breath You Take: Part 2
59 mins
Boyd and the team track down murdered police officer Debbie's married lover, but he denies killing her. Meanwhile, stalker Christopher Redford is ready to confess to the murder, but Grace is not convinced he's the guilty man.