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12 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
58 mins
Dept. Supt. Boyd and his team investigate a 1983 murder when a woman, Lore Carson, saves a man who has fallen on the train tracks and her DNA is matched to that at the old murder scene. The victim remains unidentified as her remains were burned beyond recognition and though her DNA remains intact, they haven't located a match. She was shot through the back of the head however. The evidence would indicate that the woman from the train station may have been chained and held against her will in a cargo container. When the police release her photo asking for anyone to identify her, she panics and tries to flee with her two daughters to her native France. Boyd suspects prostitution in the death but forensic evidence sends them off in a completely different situation. Meanwhile, Boyd appears quite shaken when DNA in another case leads him to someone from his past.
Episode 2
58 mins
With her daughters now being held prisoner by onetime IRA terrorist Una Doyle, Lore Carson tries to locate them but not before Boyd and his team arrest her. The police also learn of her connection to ETA and the conflict with Doyle that led to the present situation. They also learn the identity of the dead woman from 1993. Lore's account of events has been skilfully crafted however and it is revealed that Una Doyle doesn't have all of the facts either but that doesn't prevent her from seeking her revenge against Lore by using one of her children.
Episode 3
58 mins
As Boyle searches for his disturbed, runaway son Luke, the head of prison governor James Reading, whose decapitated corpse was found by his daughter Cathy years earlier, is pulled from a river. Ex-cons Kelleher and Ryan had threatened him but both had alibis from hostel warden Owens for his death. Kelleher is back inside, dying of cancer and in therapy with jumpy psychologist Damien Hooper, who has become Cathy's partner. Ryan appears to be crazy, pointing the finger at a screw named Pike. Whilst Eve is reconstructing the murder Kelleher uses Pike and another warder, Linda, as temporary hostages to abduct Hooper. However, the trail leads to the discovery of Ryan's corpse.
Episode 4
58 mins
With Kelleher now on the loose holding Dr. Hooper as his prisoner, Boyd and his team also uncover his killing field where they find six more corpses. The evidence is contradictory and complex and at various times points to Kelleher's accomplice as possibly being Dr. Hooper or the prison officer, Mr. Pike. Only when Cathy Reading comes clean and tells Boyd about what really happened the night her father died does it all fall into place. Boyd manages to again track down his son, but he runs off.
Episode 5
58 mins
A dog finds a desiccated hand in the woodlands bordering a park. When the canine brings the hand to his masters who are enjoying a picnic, Boyd and his cold case team are soon called in to investigate. Further pieces of the related body are later found after an exhaustive search, and attempts to identify the victim eventually lead the team to a nearby military base.
Episode 6
59 mins
A two year old decomposed hand is found in the woods with no other body parts in the vicinity. A distance away a beheaded corpse is later discovered and Boy's team works to discover how the young man died. As the corpse had evidently bee beheaded by an antique sword, suspicion points to a military academy in the area that trains private mercenaries for the Iraq War.
Episode 7
58 mins
After receiving an anonymous email Boyd's team discover on wasteland the mummified body of George Andrews, a youngster who disappeared years earlier after aligning himself to an extreme right wing group headed by Martin Armstrong. It turns out that George was actually called Sam and had infiltrated the group to investigate the death of his black boyfriend. Chief suspect is ageing skinhead Jim Brown but he goes on the run, taking with him his daughter Natalie's Muslim boyfriend as hostage.
Episode 8
58 mins
Boyd and his team now know that George Andrews was in fact Sam Cohen who was also gay, though they have no idea why a he would be involved with Nazi skinheads. The man Boyd really wants to get is Martin Armstrong, a racist politician representing the so-called Democratic National Party who he is convinced was involved in Cohen's murder. Their immediate priority is to find Rashid Said who has been kidnapped by Jim Brown and his cronies. The resolution to the mystery lies in determining the connection between Sam, the skinheads and a wheelchair bound AIDS patient who was burned alive is a hospice fire not long before Sam was killed. Boyd also wonders why Brown and three other of the skinheads all have AIDS even though they are in a low risk group.
Episode 9
58 mins
Boyd and the team investigate when the remains of a man are found in an underground tunnel complex that had been built by protesters in the mid-1990s. Dental records identify the man as Christopher Deardon who was reported missing in May 1996 at the age of 41. He died from having received several severe blows to the head. Deardon was supposed to have left on a business trip to Nigeria but his passport was subsequently found at his home. His wife Lucy was having an affair with Frank Monk, who is still with Lucy today. The dead man's son Jimmy, now 19, has a very difficult time accepting that his father is dead however. He tells Boyd that his father was a member of a secret group called the Awkward Squad which turns out to be something else altogether. Meanwhile, the three men who were with Chris Deardon when he died are now receiving letters reminding them of what happened.
Episode 10
57 mins
With another member of the 1996 group dead and the others receiving threatening notes, Boyd and the team begin to learn exactly what happened. The men had gone camping and high on drugs, spent time in an Indian sweat lodge intent on facing their greatest fears. The trip had been organized by Victor Coleridge who had served in Somalia with the American army but chose to start a new life for himself in his native Britain. An incident in Somalia may be behind his actions but Boyd has to admit that not all of the evidence fits. He also gets a phone call from his son Luke.
Episode 11
57 mins
Eve connects DNA from the blood of a man who assaulted a police officer and ran off to that found on a murdered mother and son whose corpses she unearthed working as a volunteer in the wake of the Bosnian war. The assault cropped up on CCTV, likewise the theft of a hand-bag stolen from hospital lab employee Veronica, in fact a Serb refugee who escaped as a small child and lives with her father Dr. Milan Vaspovic.Eve identifies the bag as having contained pure opium which Veronica and her two male Serb accomplices try to recover from the thieves, street kids who knew Boyd's son,Luke. Boyd gets to it first whilst failing to arrest Veronica whilst Eve takes a call to say that Luke is dead.
Episode 12
58 mins
Boyd finds that Veronica's co-worker who aided her flight is Jovan Petropecic, a friend of the family in the war - who got her to England - but is now using a dead Liverpudlian's passport. Boyd also pulls in a Bosnian café owner, Radovan Skedinic, whose phone number Veronica had and who was the broker in the Serbs' drug deals. Dr. Vaspovic agrees that he lost touch with his wife and son in the war, assuming they were murdered, which Eve confirms. Veronica - real name Anna - tells her Serb accomplices she has joined their gang because she believes it will lead her to the double agent who killed her mother and brother, whom she is convinced is Radovan. Boyd saves her from their kidnap attempt and she and her father watch as two unlikely conspirators are exposed. Boyd then sees his son's corpse and shows unusual emotion.