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Waking the Dead - Season 9

Series: Waking the Dead

4.6

(78)

Episodes

Rating

TV14

Year

2011

Language

English

Publisher

BBC Studios

About

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.

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Episodes

1. Harbinger, Pt. 1

50m

Boyd has to break in a new team member of equal rank, Detective Superintendent Sarah Cavendish, a high-flyer recently grounded by a hushed-up failed operation. The team investigate the mystery of a missing banker to help the man's seemingly cursed family find closure.

2. Harbinger, Pt. 2

50m

Boyd is convinced that the missing Donald is not a murderer, and pushes his team to try to make sense of all the vague connections in the case and eventually confront the unfathomable evil lurking within the heart of this sad, unfortunate family.

3. Care, Pt. 1

50m

When the Cold Case squad learn that a recently murdered woman is Claire Somers, who as a seven year-old girl was abducted from a care home 25 years ago, they unveil a shocking portrait of life in the 1980s care system.

4. Care, Pt. 2

50m

The investigation into Claire Somers' death has seemingly unleashed a predator straight from the darkest childhood nightmare. But are they looking for a monstrous child-stealer, or misguided saviours?

5. Solidarity, Pt. 1

50m

The Cold Case team investigate the murder of notorious Falklands' veteran-turned-peace activist Piers Kennedy, rumoured by conspiracy theorists to have been killed by the state - a theory that appears far from outlandish when his corpse is discovered in tunnels directly under the MoD.

6. Solidarity, Pt. 2

50m

As Boyd and his team burrow deep into the paranoid, polarized world of early 80s British national security, they uncover duplicity and sabotage that goes to the heart of government today, and that puts Grace in mortal danger.