The Cold Case team is a crack squad of police investigators who reopen unsolved murder cases, using new technology to re-examine evidence that hopefully will lead to the killer. They are at the cutting edge of modern police investigation, but they have been given just one year to prove their worth.
Boyd and the team investigate Lore's true identity and the reasons why she is in danger. The pressure is on to find the trained terrorist killer who is holding her children.
When a dog digs up human remains, Boyd and the team link the macabre discovery to a decapitated corpse found two years previously and become involved in a high-level cover up.
The Cold Case squad find a dead neo-nazi hidden in an air con duct of an empty car park. But when the team do some digging into the man's past, they uncover links to a politician standing in the local election.
There are disturbing ritual connections to the unearthing of a corpse, discovered in disused tunnels, originally built by road protestors in the 1990s.