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8 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
58 mins
Boyd's team investigate after P.C. Katrina Howard discovers a middle-aged woman nude and wandering in woods after an apparent car crash and takes her to hospital. The woman is apparently amnesiac though she has flashes back to her teenage when she escaped from a brutal Magdalene Convent in Ireland helped by Mick O'Hare and Father Quinn. She is Elizabeth Andrews, a successful business woman but her DNA is oddly linked to a double murder in a Soho club forty years earlier, when one of the victims was a Turkish sex trafficker and the other man a John Doe. Elizabeth's abductors are Turks and a visit to her house reveals a man believed to be her husband Tony Muller tortured and murdered. Elizabeth has two visitors, one is Samuel Knight, a shifty young business associate, the other is a gunman,seemingly out to finish the job, and Stella, who is guarding Elizabeth, takes a bullet.
Episode 2
59 mins
Eve matches prints on the gun to the Soho club and finds those of Father Quinn, visiting Elizabeth.He tells Boyd that when Elizabeth fled the convent she worked in a Soho club and sought his help after the deaths of the owner Topal and John Doe Mick. The man who shot Stella and was himself killed is a Turkish mafiosi but it seems the woman the priest helped at the club was really Elizabeth's twin, now captured by the Turks. Knight confesses he got a wealthy Turk to invest with him and when he lost the money he blamed Elizabeth and sent the Turks after her. The Turks also have got the real Tony who is being held with the twin 'Michelle'. Boyd saves her and learns that two twin sisters were born in 1952 in the convent but Elizabeth was adopted and 'Michelle' is the escapee who killed Topal in 1967, in self defence, with Mick also dying trying to save her. Accordingly Boyd cannot arrest her or Quinn. He gets to save Tony in a final shoot-out with the Turks but Stella is less fortunate.
Episode 3
57 mins
Twelve years earlier,after her car tyre blew on a lonely road in Kent one night, Gemma Morrison was raped, and her young brother killed, by two passing motorists - one of whom was called Jason as she recalls. Following her suicide attempt at her thirtieth birthday party the team - with Katrina replacing Stella, to Spence's bewilderment - reopen the case and get Gemma to re-live the events of the night, unaware that she is in an affair with brother-in-law Andrew. Eve proves that the blow-out was no accident and the trail leads to care-taker Jason Bloch. He eludes the team's stakeout and calls on a married man called James.
Episode 4
58 mins
Suspect Jason Bloch visits co-rapist James Mitcham and tells him he has evidence against him as security for himself. Bloch is arrested and refuses to name Mitcham but a link is traced back to Mitcham's student days when he befriended college care-taker Bloch, both men with psychological issues about women, according to Grace. Zoe finds out that Gemma is sleeping with her husband. Gemma admits it was a means to get at her as she was always the stronger sister. However Gemma too finds the link with Mitcham and goes after him on the very bridge where he killed her brother,and she is prepared to commit a judicial slaying of her own. Can Boyd stop her?
Episode 5
57 mins
Eve is intrigued that her boyfriend, Ukrainian aid worker Stefan, has a bag full of different passports and chest bruises suggesting bullet wounds. She secretly takes his DNA and links it to the death of another aid worker, Briony Havers. Boyd, opposed by all the team but especially Eve, re-opens the Havers case. Stefan admits he knew Briony but denies murder. Eve believes him, particularly when he turns out to have saved the life of a girl called Olena when a ferry capsized. Olena was an illegal immigrant, though, and Grace thinks Briony and Stefan were people traffickers and Briony was killed to silence her. At the club frequented by Ukrainians, where Eve met Stefan, some form of exchange is practised, involving Briony's ex-lover, Devlin. Eve resigns when Boyd breaks her cover by bringing Stefan to her lab. She is told that Olena worked in a hospital but when she gets there she finds it is derelict and she is overpowered.
Episode 6
58 mins
Eve comes round and finds she is tied to a chair whilst Spence, following another lead, comes to a deserted farm-house where he finds and rescues Georg, a Ukrainian boy whose eyes have been removed in the expectation of payment. Olena's corpse is discovered, along with jars of body parts. It is an illegal live organ trade. Realising that Eve has gone to the only derelict hospital in the area, Boyd tracks her down. Devlin, the trafficking boss, is about to operate on her but Stefan saves her and brings her to Boyd, whilst Devlin and his henchmen escape. Stefan admits to Boyd that Devlin had a hold on him and Briony, and forced Briony to operate on Olena, later having Briony killed to frame Stefan. After Eve and Stefan leave for a weekend in a lakeside cabin, Boyd realises that Stefan has not been entirely honest. The false passports Eve found are to allow him to pose as a doctor for financial gain, and he purposely picked up Eve, knowing that she would defend him against the others. Boyd and the team arrive at the lake just as Devlin turns up and there is a shoot-out.
Episode 7
59 mins
Now a patient of Dr. Mohammed in Padworth secure psychiatric hospital, serial killer Linda Cummings sends Boyd a severed finger and a note,'Whatever Happened to Sandra White?' claiming that patient Sandra and a doctor named McCarthy were murdered. Grace is going into hospital for a cancer operation but she warns Boyd to ignore the manipulative Linda as it is a mind game. He ignores her, taking her locum, Jackie Cochran to see Linda who, unnervingly is well-informed of his private life. Eve proves that McCarthy was murdered and his suicide faked whilst Sandra's corpse is unearthed in the hospital garden. Dr. Mohammed - who clashed with McCarthy over Sandra's treatment, pairing her with a boyfriend,fellow patient David O'Neal, had actually told Boyle that Sandra left the hospital and head nurse Penny Cain and security chief Welch support him. Linda, however, tells him that he will be dead in twenty-four hours.
Episode 8
59 mins
As Boyd investigates Sandra's demise Ellen, Linda's lover and fellow patient says she saw Dr. Mohammed bury Sandra. It transpires that David, confusing Sandra with his brutal mother, accidentally killed her and Mohammed got another patient to help bury her.David killed McCarthy for opposing his relationship with Sandra and Mohammed made it look like suicide. Linda stages a riot,taking over the control room and trapping Mohammed in the gym with David, who kills him, and using the confusion to escape.She abducts Grace and Penny , ending up on top of the building where Luke died and where Boyd now finally rids himself of Linda.