Silent Witness
2007TV-14
Forensic pathologists Professor Leo Dalton, Dr Harry Cunningham and Dr Nikki Alexander are back in one of the BBC's most successful and longest-running crime dramas. This series kicks off with an RAF helicopter crashing into an asylum seekers' detention center, followed by a hospital cover up and the killing of a notorious murderer that forces Nikki to revisit a case from her past.
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Episodes (10)
- 1. Apocalypse, Pt. 1August 28, 200752minTV-14
When an RAF helicopter crashes onto a detention center for asylum seekers, Harry and Nikki are first on the scene. But as the case progresses, Nikki discovers irregularities among the asylum seekers and Harry starts falling out with the Ministry Of Defense. - 2. Apocalypse, Pt. 2August 29, 200752minTV-14Obsessed with proving the pilot's innocence, Harry suspects the MOD may be covering up the true cause of the helicopter crash. Nikki identifies the detention center victim but realizes that by doing so she may have put his daughter in danger.
- 3. Suffer the Children, Pt. 1September 3, 200750minTV-14The discovery of a mutilated child's body in a river raises the question of ritual killing and brings Leo face-to-face with a ghost from his past. Meanwhile, Nikki investigates the apparently suspicious death of a priest from a local Catholic boys' school.
- 4. Suffer the Children, Pt. 2September 4, 200752minTV-14Leo refuses to back down in his search for the killers of the young boy, despite threats and increasing racial tension. Meanwhile, Nikki's enquiries turn from the boys' school to a local doctor.
- 5. Hippocratic Oath, Pt. 1September 10, 200752minTV-14A post mortem on a child who died during pioneering surgery prompts Nikki to investigate a leading pediatrician with an unusually high mortality rate.
- 6. Hippocratic Oath, Pt. 2September 11, 200752minTV-14With Nikki out of action and a theatre nurse missing, Harry and Leo dig deeper into the hospital deaths. Are there two killers on the loose?
- 7. Double Dare, Pt. 1September 17, 200752minTV-14Nikki is forced to revisit an emotive and controversial case from her past when a notorious female murderer is herself murdered.
- 8. Double Dare, Pt. 2September 18, 200752minTV-14Nikki's professional reputation is at stake as doubts about the Paula Colebrook case continue. Meanwhile, Harry is investigating two unidentified bodies found in the garden of an empty house.
- 9. Peripheral Vision, Pt. 1September 24, 200752minTV-14Nikki clashes with DCI Mays over the guilt of a gypsy he suspects of a double murder, while Harry takes on an insurance company which is refusing to pay out life assurance over a case of CJD.
- 10. Peripheral Vision, Pt. 2September 25, 200752minTV-14Was the gypsy's death suicide or murder? Nikki and Mays can't agree, and Nikki's investigations into his and the girls' deaths expose a significant police cover-up and lead her danger.
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- Producers
- George OrmondHilary Salmon
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- BBC
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