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- Grace and Boyd interview Stanley Heath's son Jason,who tells them that his father and two other policeman were murdered for beating to death a suspect in custody some years earlier. It seems likely that that prisoner was Nicholson's father and Boyd becomes convinced that Nicholson knew the boys' murderer and shielded him,deliberately losing his reports. The team's concern for Sarah grows as Nicholson brings in two sinister detectives to spy on them. Gradually Boyd works out that crooked property developer George Barlow took the orphaned Nicholson under his wing and that Nicholson,out of loyalty,protected the murderer,who was close to Barlow. Boyd is able to use this to effect belated justice but is he too late to save Sarah?
- When the team begins looking into the Dusnia Family, they find that their DNA does not match.
- A disgruntled Boyd is told he is to be promoted to a desk job and if he objects his unorthodox police methods will be exposed. Before he goes he vows to take on the case of several homeless teen-age boys who disappeared,at three monthly intervals,between 1979 and 1982. Dennis Grant,a kindly vicar who provided a shelter for the boys,puts him in touch with Tony Nicholson,the only policeman to show any concern,now a high ranking officer,whose reports at the time mysteriously vanished. Investigations lead to a disused pub where the abducted boys were taken and murdered by a sadist imitating American serial killer Henry Holmes. The gun that killed them was the same one that shot dead disgraced policeman Stanley Heath,another unsolved murder. A contrite Sarah admits to Boyd that she complained about him before going to see Nicholson - about whom she has her suspicions. After she has spied on him talking to an elderly man he captures her at gun-point.
- When a London flat is being rehabbed a bloody Nazi dagger is discovered in the fireplace and the team joins with a Massad agent in a hunt to solve the case.
- Mel finds out that the suspected kidnapper she accidentally shot is Jason's adoptive father and child abuse advocate Dr. Roper is found murdered.
- Grace believes that Julie, the Geigers' babysitter when their son Andrew died, deliberately killed Andrew and exposed her daughter to radiation to gain sympathy for herself as she has a psychological condition which craves attention. This is confirmed when Una, a nurse at the hospital when Andrew died, tells Boyd that she had her suspicions and told her boyfriend Glenn Burke. Burke, however, put the Geigers up to haunting the Rees family to blackmail Donald into giving them money and killed the old couple when they decided to give it back. Una has survived an attempt to kill her by Burke, who torched the Geigers' house to destroy evidence linking them with him but Burke is then killed by Julie when he breaks into her house. The team are left with the possibility that Julie is not ill after all but that this is another attention-seeking ploy. If so, did she kill Donald when he found out what she had done?
- Thirty years after Grace Foley helped send Tony Green to prison for the murder of young men, a copycat tries to force her to recant her stand on the case.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- An anonymous letter writer demonstrates to the Boyd that Annie Keel was not the only person present during the murders, but his motivation remains a mystery.
- Five-year-old twins Cindy and Jason were abducted in 1988. Sixteen years later, Jason is struck by a car and identified by his DNA after he is admitted to hospital. The hunt now begins to locate Cindy, but Jason cannot recall anything about his life. DS Boyd does not think it is a coincidence when he discovers the driver that struck Jason had crossed paths with the boy shortly before the abduction. Meanwhile, Jason disappears and a police raid in a search for Cindy has tragic results.
- Having established that the killer's victims are the surviving members of the same WWII regiment, Boyd and his team must find the next possible target, but no one knows where he is. The motive for the murders becomes clear when they uncover the story of a brutal gang rape that led to a pregnancy and suicide.
- A fourth schizophrenic young woman falls under the spell of the shadowy religious figure known as "The Shepherd," who exploits her paranoia and manipulates her toward murdering psychiatrist Matt Carney, brother of her doctor, David Carney.
- Prime suspect Steven Hunt drowns two more girls despite being kept under surveillance by the Team.
- Boyd and his team find themselves in a race against time as they pursue racist skinhead Jim Brown and his young hostage in order to find out who murdered Sam seventeen years earlier.
- The team discovers that even though the war crimes occurred a decade earlier the deaths they're investigating are intertwined with s current drug deal.
- An old adversary, serial Killer Linda Cummings, entices Boyd to solve 2 more murders. Is she for real or just playing games.
- Boyd and the team uncover many conspiracies and crimes at the institution, all of which are being utilized by Linda to get her to her endgame and checkmate of Boyd,
- Sarah Cavendish, who had to leave the anti-terrorist squad for undisclosed reasons, joins Boyd's team as they reopen the case of banker Donald Rees, missing for three years. They speak to his wife Julie, who has terminal cancer and her children Miranda and Toby, who report seeing an elderly couple in funeral black stalking them when Donald vanished. They learn that the Rees' other daughter died of cancer due to radiation at a local hospital. CCTV from 2007 reveals that the old couple approached Donald just before he disappeared, drawing out 100,000 pounds from the bank. They were the Geigers, who lost a son at the same hospital in the late 1980s and whose skeletons the team find. Then their house is torched, killing the policewoman guarding it.
- Thirteen years after she was abducted, as a seven year old, from a care home, Claire Somers is murdered, her eyes gouged out. The abductor also gouged out the eyes on the corpse of Robert Fenchurch, the care home supervisor who tried to stop Claire's kidnapping. Prior to her death Claire had also abducted a young girl, Abigail Harding, and locked her in a cupboard, but, when quizzed by Boyd, Abigail can only tell him that she saw the Bagman, a child's fictional bogey figure known to her family. Clare was an escort and the team find that prostitution and drug peddling were rife in the care home in the 1980s. Clare also seemed to know Abigail's G.P. sister Teresa, who subsequently falls to her death from a balcony after seeing the Bagman. Peter Broading, the home's current manager, who was a resident aged twelve when Claire disappeared tells Boyd that his arms were cut by David Drew, another boy from the home, to punish him for colluding with Fenchurch in the prostitution ring. However Drew also went missing at the same time as Claire. Is he the Bagman?
- After serving half her sentence for the murder of her husband and neighbor's son, new evidence suggests that Annie Keel could be innocent.
- A deathbed confession appears to link the hanging of an East End gangster and the assassination of the jury that found him guilty.
- 1948: Post-war Britain and an ex-soldier has been found dead with his skull nailed to the floor. Now this case has been re-opened due to media attention and pressure created by his grandson. The killer strikes again and the team discover another linked murder from the 1960s. A further victim is found nailed to the floor - this time in a nursing home for the elderly. Is the Second World War the linking factor? The team must find the next possible victim but no-one knows where he is.
- Two women with psychiatric problems are driven to murder and a third to suicide by a shadowy religious figure called "The Shepherd."
- Under pressure to discover the truth behind the disappearance of an eighteen-year-old girl on Hampstead Heath in 1989, Boyd makes terrible mistakes...
- Another murder has been committed and Boyd knows he must track down the killer before he strikes again. Does the answer lie in events at the children's home many years previously?
- Expatriate gangster Frank Sutton returns to Britain and recruits reporter Graham Barker to gather enough evidence and publish the truth about his brother Charles, who was framed and hung for murder.
- The Team effectively proves that dead man was a murder victim, not a suicide and narrows their prime suspects to three inmates at the halfway house where the crime was committed. Two of them have ties to a shady jazz club owner named Phil Brown. After the murder weapon, which is linked to other execution type murders, is stolen from Frankie's lab, Brown is murdered with it.
- When Sociopathic-sadistic serial killer convict Kelleher, who is dying of cancer, escapes from prison, he takes prison psychiatrist Dr. Hooper with him for unclear reasons.
- The bodies of a mother and son are found in a mass grave in Bosnia, but evidence shows the boy was not Bosnian although his mother was.
- A probation officer is murdered in a halfway house, but it is made to look like a suicide.
- The body of missing Police Sergeant Debbie Briton turns up in a golf bag. Suspicion falls on a stalker, but Grace is not convinced that he is the killer.
- After a garage is demolished, the mummified body of a long vanished young man with IRA sympathies is found along with a car bomb.
- A serial rapist/killer currently serving a life sentence may hold the key to solving a copycat murder.
- The team's convinced that a non-violent criminal about to be released from prison is responsible for a series of attacks/murders of women, but can they prove it?
- Boyd and the team track down murdered police officer Debbie's married lover, but he denies killing her. Meanwhile, stalker Christopher Redford is ready to confess to the murder, but Grace is not convinced he's the guilty man.
- Feminist Katherine Reed's private life and her desire to have a child hold the keys for the cold case team in solving her murder.
- The Team plays cat-and-mouse with Rice trying to learn the identity of his former accomplice and the perpetrator of the current copycat crime.
- Boyd and the team find that the murdered young man presumed to be Irish was really working for the English under a "false flag."
- The team finds additional exculpatory evidence on convicted spree killer and finds evidence of several cover-ups.
- Threatened by the investigation, Joanna Gold's killer has struck again and now begins to stalk her younger sister, Clara. She persuades Boyd to let her wear the red dress and go onto the Heath in an attempt to catch her stalker. When the Commissioner hears of this dangerous plan, he furiously intervenes. Boyd is in deep trouble.
- The head warden of a prison for sexual predators, who was decapitated years before, is discovered and there is no shortage of perverted and kinky suspects.
- The dessicated, mummified body of a young man who was a member of a racist skinhead organization is found in ventilation shaft where he was murdered in 1990.
- Boyd reopens a 12 year-old former cold case when the victim, a 30 year old rape and trauma victim who has tried to commit suicide even though no new evidence has surfaced.
- Sarah finds a letter sent from Clare to her mother in 1989, three years after her abduction, stating that she was very happy. The team locate the house in which she lived in Sussex, now empty but with signs that children lived there. Grace discovers that several children were taken from the home, including Clare and David Drew, by social workers who feared for their welfare, David Drew gouging out Fenchurch's eyes after he was accidentally run over. The social workers are Leo and Karen Harding and their grown-up children are among those they saved. When Clare met Teresa she threatened to blow the whistle on them and was murdered, but by whom? And which of the Harding's boys is Drew?
- The discovery of a mummified body opens an investigation into a supposedly fictional film from the 1960s. It transpires that the gangster responsible for the bodies behind the walls in the Notting Hill house is still active today.
- A serial killer, possibly a man and woman working together, are responsible for a series of kinky, sex-related murders.
- When Father Stuart is found murdered in the same excavation the body was discovered, the team makes a connection.
- The team are racing against the clock as they try to establish the identity of the care-home pedophilic murderer. Meanwhile, he is being hunted down by two of his victims: Tanner, the dead boy's twin brother, and another former resident who was abused. The team need to reach the pedophile first, to prevent another death.
- Boyd and his team are convinced that Dr. Nick Henderson has committed the two cement factory murders but proving it will be difficult.
- The body of DS Dave Marvin is found with his throat slashed in a parking lot that has connections to the case. Although there were no signs of sexual activity as in the other cases, someone tried to carve letters into his body but was evidently interrupted. A very embittered Raymond Carstairs reveals that his father, one of the victims, not only was headmaster at a children's school but abused children too, even his own son. Grace suspects that the semen found on the victims may have been purchased on-line. As the case builds to a resolution Bulmer and Boyd clash.
- Reoorrists from Ireland, Algiria, and Basque country help Boyd and his team solve a case.
- Although Boyd has sufficient evidence to arrest rapist Jason Bloch, he allows him time to incriminate accomplice James Mitcham, now a respected surgeon whom he blackmails to care for his invalid wife.
- Murray's tape shows Piers and three others attacking a nuclear convoy,resulting in a policeman's death and the team believe initially that the government killed Piers in revenge. However Eve,released from custody,discovers that Piers had a terminal bone marrow disease and,knowing this,had actually joined the peace movement to discredit it with violence. Murray confronts Lucy,who,along with Hugo,Piers and himself,comprised the attackers but she is murdered and Murray set up for her death. Boyd takes him into the team's protection and they learn who tipped off the quartet about the convoy and would want the attackers silenced. Another death follows before Piers' killer is exposed and Grace almost dies in the process,leading Sarah to tell ACC Smith that she has doubts as to Boyd's fitness to lead his team.
- Six years after the murdered corpse of an unknown young man was discovered in a reservoir Eve identifies him as medical student Karl Barclay. Karl's father Gideon takes the news stoically but his wife Lisbetta is superstitious and disturbed and sees her son as having brought Beelzebub into the family when he converted to Islam. Karl's younger brother Jakob and ex-girlfriend Naz speak of a letter Karl sent Naz before he disappeared but Eve believes it is a forgery and the team is also amazed to learn that Karl's body was cremated only days after its discovery. Lisbetta has buried several of Karl's belongings in the garden, including a train ticket to Manchester and a photo of Karl with his Muslim friends. She is hysterical when they are unearthed and later stabs Gideon, claiming that she killed Karl too. Sarah finds out that Karl's name was on a watch list of suspected terrorists, again probably due to his mother's paranoia.
- Despite murdering her husband it seems unlikely the delusional Lisbetta killed Karl. Sought out by Jakob Naz says that Mohammed, another group member, killed him before returning to Pakistan and Sarah's colleague from the terrorist squad Tristan also claims Karl was killed for refusing a bombing mission. However, after Boyd is abducted and tied to a bomb, leading Sarah into a trap from which she saves them both, she believes Tristan is lying. The experience also helps her overcome the operation for which she took the blame when one of her policemen was killed. Naz finally admits that she was in love with one of her Islamic contemporaries, which caused her to betray another to the authorities. The case is closed, though not to Boyd's satisfaction but Sarah withdraws all her objections to his leadership.
- A skeleton is discovered during building work at a church.
- Boyd has to battle his demons when the case against a mass murderer, who killed his close friend, is reopened.
- After the police cannot get a conviction, the cold case team takes on the murder of a feminist who worked for the Home Office.
- Boyd and the team discover that two decomposed bodies -- one a suicide and the other a murder victim -- are linked to the same man, a medical researcher.
- Demolishing a building in 2007, a wrecking crew discovers two desiccated corpses still conjoined who were shot to death by a single bullet while having sex in 1992.
- Boyd determines that Esther is the cause of the murder, but who killed her: McDonagh father or son or Killigan father or son?
- The relationship of Boyd and Grace becomes strained as he comes closer to the killer and a scenario involving official corruption becomes apparent.
- Three murders allegedly committed 20 years earlier because of anger management, are re-examined by the unit when the supposed killer is released from a psychiatric facility.
- Despite his suspension for a hit-and-run charge, Boyd and the team continues to pursue the Vine case.
- The evidence points to the house being a dumping ground for dead bodies and the four corpses being the result of multiple rather than a single event.
- A Basque terrorist, an Algerian revolutionary, and a ruthless IRA agent are the keys to solving a cold case.
- When a rich, well-to-do woman is found nude and amnesiac on a country rode, the team ties her to a car accident, her husband's bizarre murder, the looting of his company, and a 40+ year old cold case.
- The team connects Father Quinn to the 1967 club murder old case after he rescues Elizabeth at the hospital from from being murdered by the Turkish mafia and connects her questionable business practices with her kidnapping.
- In a sewer below Westminster workmen discover the skeleton of murdered Falklands hero turned peace campaigner Piers Kennedy, missing since 1983 after making anti-nuclear speeches. He was known to Grace, herself on a Government watch list for her anti-war views and she recalls his associates; Lucy Christie, the girlfriend he dumped for a fling with Bonnie Yorke, still the partner of fellow campaigner Ralph Palmer and the charming but volatile marine Murray. Other suspects number Lucy's father, now Lord Christie, whose dog's hairs were found on the corpse and former friend, the Russian Oleg, now employed by Lord Christie, who turned against Piers after the KGB killed his parents. Grace locates Murray, now a paranoid victim of post-traumatic stress, who gives her a tape allegedly showing that MoD police killed Piers. At the same time Eve, revisiting the sewer, is arrested by the same police and Defence minister Jane Hussey warns Boyd to go no further.
- The team revisits the murder conviction for a dirty cop obtained eight years earlier by Boyd when he discovers the inmate is dying of cancer.
- The CCS is alerted to sexual abuse of young boys in care homes. The team race to identify the murderer before his vengeful victims reach him.
- A woman torches a car, which leads Boyd to investigate a car crash that may not have been an accident.
- DNA evidence clears a man of the murder of his adopted fisherman stepfather eleven years earlier, but who killed him and who was responsible for the simultaneous disappearance of three female family members?
- Davy, a young boy is drowned in concrete, is it suicide, accident, or murder?
- Mel agrees to act as decoy in the guise of a WPC in order to entrap the kidnapper/killer, who seems to enjoy taunting Boyd.
- Another member of the Lovell family turns up in the family boatyard under a pile of cockles minus a head and hands.
- DCI Peter Boyd hunts a killer who murdered a schoolgirl five years earlier. Then the killer contacts him saying he's abducted another girl. Could exhuming the murderer's first victim provide vital clues?
- A newly discovered note seems to set the seal on a suicide verdict, but when Boyd and the team exhume Perry Coleman's body, DNA tests reveal some disturbing facts.
- 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.
- After a witness in Boyd's ongoing murder investigation is killed by a sniper, the team scrambles to work through the remaining suspects before anyone else suffers the same fate.
- A mummified body discovered in a derelict airplane in an Arizona scrapyard after seven years has mutilations that match those from another body found in a water tower.
- A badly decomposed body is discovered buried in a Hampstead garden, while a convicted murderer escapes from a secure psychiatric unit. The team is drawn back to a horrific double patricide from 1967.
- After a mental patient slips away after spending forty years for brutally murdering his parents, several leads open up for the cold case team.
- A mummified hand is discovered in the woods and linked to a military academy in the area that trains mercenaries to fight in Iraq.
- Eve is attracted to an Eastren European she meets at a club and soon becomes intimate with him. She inexplicably compares his DNA with semen found at a brutal cold case murder and it matches.
- The team finally discovers what the principles have been smuggling -- human body parts, which are harvested from smuggled illegal aliens and sold for great profit on the black market.
- When a Sudanese leader sews his mouth shut and goes on a hunger strike until the long-missing skull of the Mahdi is returned, the Foreign Office pressures the team to find it.
- Boyd connects the disappearance of the Mahdi's skull to the cold case murder of a former Iraqi VIP in his store years earlier and a college-centered Middle Eatern cult.
- The decomposed remains of a murdered man is found in an abandoned tunnel formerly occupied by protesters during the 90s.
- The team discovers that the death of one of the group's members in 1995 and subsequent deaths can be attributed to a Navajo sweat lodge ritual attended by all the principles.