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12 Episodes 2004 - 2004
Episode 1
59 mins
1948: Post-war Britain and an ex-soldier has been found dead with his skull nailed to the floor. Now this case has been re-opened due to media attention and pressure created by his grandson. The killer strikes again and the team discover another linked murder from the 1960s. A further victim is found nailed to the floor - this time in a nursing home for the elderly. Is the Second World War the linking factor? The team must find the next possible victim but no-one knows where he is.
Episode 2
58 mins
Having established that the killer's victims are the surviving members of the same WWII regiment, Boyd and his team must find the next possible target, but no one knows where he is. The motive for the murders becomes clear when they uncover the story of a brutal gang rape that led to a pregnancy and suicide.
Episode 3
59 mins
A garage is demolished. As the building falls apart, demolition work is halted at the sight of a skeleton sitting in the driver's seat. An unexploded bomb is found under the car which is soon linked to an Irish terrorist cell from the late 1970s. The team tread carefully to unravel the story of the would-be bomber. Why was he killed and why did the bomb fail to detonate?
Episode 4
58 mins
Although the mummified body of the young Anglo-Irish man found in the garage with the car bomb is initially assumed to have been working for the IRA at the time of his murder, the team finds that he was actually working for the British, and Boyd has to uncover a tangled web of intrigue in order to discover who is responsible. He discovers that the crime was committed under a "false flag, " a crime committed by one government to make it appear that another one is responsible.
Episode 5
58 mins
Five-year-old twins Cindy and Jason were abducted in 1988. Sixteen years later, Jason is struck by a car and identified by his DNA after he is admitted to hospital. The hunt now begins to locate Cindy, but Jason cannot recall anything about his life. DS Boyd does not think it is a coincidence when he discovers the driver that struck Jason had crossed paths with the boy shortly before the abduction. Meanwhile, Jason disappears and a police raid in a search for Cindy has tragic results.
Episode 6
58 mins
Mel finds out that the suspected kidnapper she accidentally shot is Jason's adoptive father and child abuse advocate Dr. Roper is found murdered.
Episode 7
60 mins
Wormwood Scrubs: Sam, one of the prisoners is released to start a new life. But then a man is murdered in the hostel where Sam stays. Soon he is a suspect. But it looks as though Sam was in fact the intended victim. Sam has a hidden past which the team can only speculate about. On the surface he appears to be a devoted family man, so why does he have influential connections in the criminal world?
Episode 8
58 mins
The Team effectively proves that dead man was a murder victim, not a suicide and narrows their prime suspects to three inmates at the halfway house where the crime was committed. Two of them have ties to a shady jazz club owner named Phil Brown. After the murder weapon, which is linked to other execution type murders, is stolen from Frankie's lab, Brown is murdered with it.
Episode 9
59 mins
A sadomasochistic serial killer is at large. The killings are brutal and the victims are found with the word 'Sorry' carved in their backs. When the killer strikes at the heart of the team, the investigation takes a new track and the motive for the murders takes on a very different meaning.
Episode 10
58 mins
The body of DS Dave Marvin is found with his throat slashed in a parking lot that has connections to the case. Although there were no signs of sexual activity as in the other cases, someone tried to carve letters into his body but was evidently interrupted. A very embittered Raymond Carstairs reveals that his father, one of the victims, not only was headmaster at a children's school but abused children too, even his own son. Grace suspects that the semen found on the victims may have been purchased on-line. As the case builds to a resolution Bulmer and Boyd clash.
Episode 11
59 mins
A young woman who has psychiatric problems has killed her family through an arson attack on her family home. She claims she was incited to do this by a mysterious figure known only as 'The Shepherd'. It transpires that two more women also with mental illnesses claimed they were incited to commit murder by the same person in the past. The team need to discover if this is a journey through the imagination or reality.
Episode 12
57 mins
A fourth schizophrenic young woman falls under the spell of the shadowy religious figure known as "The Shepherd," who exploits her paranoia and manipulates her toward murdering psychiatrist Matt Carney, brother of her doctor, David Carney.