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12 Episodes 2005 - 2005
Episode 1
58 mins
Following the tragic death of DS Mel Silver, Frankie Wharton has left the Cold Case Unit to return to research. Felix Gibson, a bright, strong and somewhat altruistic pathologist, has stepped into her shoes. But Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd is finding it hard to find a replacement for Mel. In the meantime, DS Andrea Stephenson, who likes to be known as Andy, has been drafted in, on attachment from Kent C.I.D. Six years ago, Andy found a body on top of a water tower in Kent. The case bears similarities to a mummified body discovered on a derelict airplane. Meanwhile, Spencer Jordan goes undercover in prison. His mission is to discover the reasons behind these deaths from the convicted killer, who is too scared to say anything. But the man commits suicide in prison before Spencer can get him to reveal the identity of the true killer. The plane victim's uncle arrives from India to tell the team that his nephew was investigating a corrupt businessman who had been peddling fake drugs. The shadowy figure of the corrupt Indian businessman grows increasingly sinister as the team discover that he was manufacturing fake pharmaceutical drugs designed to be sold at a high price to unwitting Aids victims in third world countries. A major international pharmaceutical company is implicated in the cover-up and it becomes clear that they will take steps, however illegal, to silence their problem.
Episode 2
55 mins
The cold case mutilation murders of two Indians, a recent prison suicide, Zorarosterism, and a seven year old robbery at Heathrow Airport are all linked to the manufacture of counterfeit drugs and a shadowy international pharmaceutical cartel, which tries to recruit Boyd as a covert operative.
Episode 3
58 mins
Ex-cop Eddie Vine summons Boyd to prison, where he is serving life for murdering his partner and best friend, Tom Pallisser. Boyd accepts the invitation expecting a confession. Instead he gets forgiveness and learns that Vine is terminally ill. Boyd is tormented by the possibility that he got it wrong, and sets out to prove to himself once and for all that the right man is behind bars. Boyd is suspended following a hit and run offense whilst under the influence - only he can't remember anything. The remaining team members must find out who framed Boyd and whether Eddie Vine is innocent. Their investigations are interrupted when the Commissioner gives them a new team member to help in Boyd's absence - but the team are convinced she's a plant designed to find incriminating evidence against Boyd.
Episode 4
58 mins
Boyd is suspended on a hit-and-run/drunk driving charge of which he has no memory. Even though Spence is ordered to close the case, he and the team continue to reexamine the Vine case as Stella Goodman becomes the newest member of the team.
Episode 5
58 mins
A millionaire businessman is found dead a year after he disappeared. The team discovers that he had been kept a prisoner in the cellar of an abandoned building but that the kidnapper made no ransom demand. Initially, the team thinks the victim committed suicide by overdosing on an over-the-counter pain medication; however, the discovery of a second body -- nearby, but dead for several years -- prompts more investigation. Retracing the steps of the two men leads the team to an unlikely suspect; they know they have their man, but now they must collect compelling evidence. Then their suspect disappears and, shortly afterwards, so does his wife.
Episode 6
58 mins
Boyd and the Cold Case Squad become convinced that Dr. Nick Henderson, an apparently clean-cut and dedicated medical researcher and respected family man is complicit in the deaths of two men after the decaying corpses are found. Michael Shrman was a millionaire businessman who was kidnapped and imprisoned in a deserted cement factory and was enabled in committing suicide. The other is Russell Tate, an unemployed loner, who was battered to death and left in the same area. Proving how they were committed and why is the task facing the team.
Episode 7
58 mins
In 1979, Grace Foley (Sue Johnston), at the start of her career as a Forensic Profiler, assists in the arrest and conviction of Tony Greene for murder and mutilation of young men. Nearly thirty years later, Grace is called to give evidence at Tony Greene's Appeal. At the same time someone appears to be copying Greene's actions by sending a jar of pickled severed fingers to Grace. The team are sent current footage of a new victim having his finger cut off. The torturer promises that he will be murdered unless Grace admits that she was wrong about Tony Greene...
Episode 8
57 mins
The interrogation sessions of the desperate drug addict who snatched Grace's purse and a lovesick ex-con help lead Boyd and his team to the kidnapper/torturer of a young man.
Episode 9
58 mins
Prisoner Steven Hunt is serving nine months for Benefit Fraud, and he's about to get out. The team are convinced he's a serial killer, and set out to solve the murders he committed in the past. But with nothing other than coincidences and hunches can they prevent him from beginning a killing spree? Hunt is released and Boyd has him tailed. Under the noses of his police tail, Hunt drowns a girl at the local baths. There is no proof that he has done this so Boyd releases his name to a journalist hoping that media coverage will give the team something to work with.
Episode 10
57 mins
Prime suspect Steven Hunt manages to claim two more drowning victims while the Cold Case Team is conducting a surveillance on him., but even after a frustrated Boyd takes out his anger on the suspect and his own team, he has nothing but circumstantial evidence against the serial killer.
Episode 11
58 mins
A murder case that Spencer worked on whilst at the Atomic Energy Constabulary is under review. DNA evidence that's been untestable until now looks set to reveal the murderer of two anti nuclear campaigners in the 1980s. It turns out not to be the man convicted of their deaths twenty years earlier. Meanwhile, someone inside the team is making every effort to destroy the new evidence. And all the signs are that it is Spencer himself. But events take a bizarre turn when a package for Spencer turns out to be a gas bomb which misses its intended target and renders Felix unconscious. The anti-terrorist squad puts the Cold Case team's HQ under lockdown and the team are kept quarantined until the substance that knocked out Felix can be identified. Spencer goes to apprehend the man who left his DNA at the campaigners' murder scene but is shot at and loses contact with Boyd. Boyd realizes that his investigation is being thwarted by a very powerful insider who has managed to render his team powerless. The race against time is on as Boyd seeks to get out of the sealed base to save Spencer. As Spencer's life hangs in the balance, will he survive?
Episode 12
58 mins
The anti-terrorist squad has Boyd's HQ under lock-down, and the team is quarantined until the substance that affected Felix can be identified.