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8 Episodes 2003 - 2003
Episode 1
59 mins
In 1996 a gunman opened fire from the top of a multistory carpark killing passersby on Whitewater High Street. Since known as the Whitewater massacre, one of the victims was a tactical squad police officer, Sgt. Nick Patterson, Supt. Peter Boyd's best friend. Patterson's police-issued Glock pistol disappeared and was the weapon used to kill him. The Glock disappeared that day but is found seven years later by two boys some 10 miles from Whitewater. Boyd and his team are assigned to solve the mystery of the vanishing gun as the convicted sniper's solicitor is calling his client's conviction into question. As the investigation continues, the team begin to discover anomalies that may in fact mean the convicted killer, Carl Mackenzie - who always maintained his innocence - may have been wrongly convicted.
Episode 2
58 mins
The investigation into the Whitewater Massacre continues and the cold case squad begins to believe that the convicted sniper, Carl Mackenzie, is innocent. It looks like the police were very selective in sifting through the evidence and ignored anything that would put into question the man's guilt. Mackenzie had always maintained that he was kidnapped by the real killer. Grace Foley learns that the family business owned by Mackenzie's fiancée, Reynold Mining, may have been involved in violence and in the past used soldiers of fortune. Mel begins to question Boyd's impartiality when she learns he has evidence that at least one of the eye witnesses manufactured his entire story.
Episode 3
58 mins
When DNA testing leads to the acquittal of Mark Lovell in the murder of his adoptive father 11 years previously, Supt. Boyd pushes to re-open the case. Although Lovell was only charged with killing one person, three other family members also disappeared as well as the family-owned fishing boat. While he accepts the forensic evidence that set Lovell free, Boyd isn't entirely convinced of his innocence. When the sunken boat is located, Boyd makes plans to raise it, but the remaining family isn't very cooperative. Mark has assumed a new persona, Maria and is alienated from what family he has left. When the boat is raised it's apparent that the three occupants were murdered.
Episode 4
57 mins
When Frankie Wharton discovers traces of cocaine in the recovered boat, Boyd and the team suspect that the Lovell family may have been involved in more that just fishing. Mark/Maria's cousins, Stephen and Martin, along with their friend Fin Dawley already had plans to convert the Lovell's industrial area to an upmarket shops and flats complex. The discovery of a body - headless and handless to limit identification - reveals the convoluted and complex family structure. Boyd is convinced that the most recent killing was perpetrated by the same person who killed off three members of the Lovell family 11 years before. The case takes a dramatic twist when they learn there is another police Superintendent working undercover in the area. The reason he is there may seriously hamper Boyd's investigation.
Episode 5
59 mins
Psychotherapist Laurie Poole adamantly insists that she has evidence of horrific sexual abuse and an undetected homicide for the Cold Case Team. She has recovered the repressed memory of patient Terence Tanner from his days as an institutionalized young teenager. He recalls not only his own abuse but that of another young man who was subsequently murdered. Circumstances overcome Boyd's initial resistance when Tanner disappears and the newly excavated 600 year old skeleton of a young boy in a Medieval cemetery is found to have DNA matching Tanner's.
Episode 6
57 mins
The team are racing against the clock as they try to establish the identity of the care-home pedophilic murderer. Meanwhile, he is being hunted down by two of his victims: Tanner, the dead boy's twin brother, and another former resident who was abused. The team need to reach the pedophile first, to prevent another death.
Episode 7
59 mins
With Mel Silver finally getting her long-awaited promotion to Detective Sergeant, Supt. Boyd and his team investigate a mysterious death when mummified remains are found in dust bins. The body is traced to a house that has been much in the news lately over the eviction of the final tenant by a new owner who wants to renovate the building into a series of new flats. As they explore the premises, they begin to find other bodies in the walls and under the floorboards eventually identifying a total of four victims. The remains all seem to date back a number of years and through a public appeal, the first of the remains found is finally identified. DS Spencer Jordan finally admits to Boyd that he knows this house all too well as he lived there in the top floor flat as a young child. Spencer is conflicted by his father's abandonment when he was only 6 years old and now wonders what may have really happened.
Episode 8
57 mins
The forensic evidence from the four bodies found in the house indicate they were all separate events, making the house a dumping ground rather than the scene of the murders. The parallels with a violent 1960s film cannot be overlooked. DS Spencer Jordan continues his private investigation into the disappearance of his father all those years ago. The murders are all somehow related to drug dealer Vinnie Peverell and his connections in Miami, Florida. Spencer learns of the reasons his father disappeared and his connection with Peverell.