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8 Episodes 2002 - 2002
Episode 1
59 mins
The Cold Case team is forced to enlist the help of a psychotic killer. Thomas Rice, is in jail for the abduction and murder of five women. Meanwhile, Dr Claire Delaney, one of Rice's victims, who survived her ordeal, has become the morbid obsession of a copycat assailant...
Episode 2
58 mins
The Cold Case Team plays a cat-and-mouse game with imprisoned serial murderer Thomas Rice using Mel as bait in order to discover the location of the cold case bodies, find out who assisted Rice in his crimes, and discover the identity of the copy-cat killer following his m.o.
Episode 3
58 mins
When a petty burglar is acquitted of murdering a prominent Home Officer Advisor, Boyd and his team are brought in to investigate. However, they soon discover the corridors of Whitehall are shrouded in secrecy, and worst still; the team are subject to a Home Office audit. A coincidence?
Episode 4
58 mins
Expatriate gangster Frank Sutton returns to Britain and recruits reporter Graham Barker to gather enough evidence and publish the truth about his brother Charles, who was framed and hung for murder by arrogant retired DCI Michael Finlay, who's also at odds with Boyd.
Episode 5
59 mins
Detective Superintendent Boyd and his team investigate the murder of Katherine Reed, a senior Home Office official who was found asphyxiated in her bed. Ricky Taft, a burglar arrested in her apartment, has been found not guilty of the murder and Boyd's team start a new investigation from scratch. They are surprised to learn that 11 months after her death, her remains are still available foe examination as her husband refused to accept them until her killer was convicted. As they look into Reed's private life, the find an indifferent husband with a dodgy alibi, a former colleague who may have own reasons to dislike the woman and the fact that she may have had a lover. They also find that the Home Office is less than cooperative, wrapping several events under a shroud of secrecy.
Episode 6
56 mins
Feminist Katherine Reed's private life and her desire to have a child hold the keys for the cold case team in solving her murder.
Episode 7
59 mins
Under pressure to discover the truth behind the disappearance of an eighteen-year-old girl on Hampstead Heath in 1989, Boyd makes terrible mistakes...
Episode 8
56 mins
Threatened by the investigation, Joanna Gold's killer has struck again and now begins to stalk her younger sister, Clara. She persuades Boyd to let her wear the red dress and go onto the Heath in an attempt to catch her stalker. When the Commissioner hears of this dangerous plan, he furiously intervenes. Boyd is in deep trouble.