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Waking the Dead

  • TV-14
  • 2001–2011
  • 9 seasons
  • Crime, Mystery
  • 7.2

A second chance to catch the killer!

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Episodes

8 episodes
  1. 1Multistorey (1)

    Sep 14, 2003

    A man accused of opening fire on a crowd from a multi storey car park, and killing a policeman, is claiming his innocence. Boyd's colleagues question his loyalties when he seems unwilling to re-investigate. As DC Mel Silver digs deeper, she discovers some disturbing truths about her boss.

  2. 2Multistorey (2)

    Sep 15, 2003

    Boyd struggles with his past while continuing the investigation on a mass murderer who was also guilty of killing his close friend. Are the Gunman's claims of innocence true? As the team investigate it looks as if someone else may have been involved.

  3. 3Walking on Water (1)

    Sep 21, 2003

    When a convicted killer is cleared at appeal for the murder of his adoptive father ten years previously, Boyd is not convinced that the man is innocent. But the only way to find out is to track down the rest of the family - and with a big inheritance at stake, both parties appear to have a lot to hide..

  4. 4Walking on Water (2)

    Sep 22, 2003

    Following the murder of Mark Lovell's cousin, the team establish that Mark has a watertight alibi, and the search for the real murderer narrows down to the remaining family members. Their investigation into the two remaining family members is further complicated by the discovery of drug dealing and involvement in the witness protection scheme.

  5. 5Breaking Glass (1)

    Sep 27, 2003

    A recovered memory therapist alerts the CCS to a care home regime of sexual abuse of young boys and a suspected murder. Her client who revealed all this in a therapy session goes missing and the team strongly suspect he has gone on the hunt for the man who abused him and murdered his friend.

  6. 6Breaking Glass (2)

    Sep 28, 2003

    ln their attempts to prevent another murder, the team desperately tries to establish the identity of the care home paedophile who is also being hunted down by two of his victims..

  7. 7Final Cut (1)

    Oct 5, 2003

    A mummified body sends the Cold Case Squad back to the sixties and to a Notting Hill house which had been featured in a film as the location for a murderous fight between gangsters. Renovation works at the house in the present day reveal more bodies behind the walls. The film starts to appear not so fictional after all. Things get even more complicated when Spencer tells Boyd that he and his family lived there when the events took place.

  8. 8Final Cut (2)

    Oct 6, 2003

    The gangster responsible for the bodies behind the walls in the Notting Hill house is still active and the unearthing of past events provokes more murders and an international turf war. Spencer's family history is the key to unravelling the mystery.

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Series cast

Trevor EveDCI Peter Boyd90 episodes
Sue JohnstonDr. Grace Foley90 episodes
Wil JohnsonDS Spencer Jordan90 episodes
Tara FitzgeraldDr. Eve Lockhart42 episodes
Félicité Du JeuDC Stella Goodman38 episodes
Holly AirdDr. Frankie Wharton37 episodes
Claire GooseDC Amelia 'Mel' Silver37 episodes
Esther HallDr. Felix Gibson12 episodes
George RainsfordLuke Boyd (credit only)11 episodes
Eva BirthistleDet Supt Sarah Cavendish10 episodes
Stacey RocaDS Katrina Howard8 episodes
Elizabeth RiderDI Maureen Smith7 episodes
Ruth GemmellLinda Cummings6 episodes
Michelle ForbesSarah4 episodes
Simon KunzDAC Ralph Christie4 episodes
Kananu KirimiSalma Ahmed4 episodes
Nicholas BeveneyFraser4 episodes
Chris BarnesReporter 14 episodes

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