Waking the Dead (2001)
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Episode 1 - Wren Boys (1)
Release Date: 2007-01-07The team re-investigates the death of a teenage boy who was found on a building site some years ago, drowned in concrete. Part of a human ear is found in his stomach, linking him to the dumping of another seriously injured teenager in a hospital at around the same time. The ground on which the dead teenager was found belongs to a Catholic abbey which is soon to be dissolved, and the abbey owns a shrine which might contain evidence and has to be dismantled - a task which falls to the unwilling Stella Goodman.Meanwhile, new forensic scientist Dr Eve Lockhart makes her mark on the case.
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Episode 2 - Wren Boys (2)
Release Date: 2007-01-08Continuing the investigation of the death of a teenager whose body was found in concrete on a building site years ago. The injured Joe McDonagh finally wakes from his coma - but how much light can he throw now on a boxing bout which went badly wrong long ago?Meanwhile, there are surprises in store for Boyd and Jordan.
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Episode 3 - Deus Ex Machina (1)
Release Date: 2007-01-14MI6 asks Boyd to reopen the case of the killing of an Iraqi dissident.Meanwhile, a man running for election as President of the Sudan announces he is going on hunger strike to protest at Britain's refusal to return the skull of a 19th century leader.
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Episode 4 - Deus Ex Machina (2)
Release Date: 2007-01-15Boyd finds a connection between the recent murder of an Iraqi and the local ruler's skull taken from the Sudan by British troops more than a hundred years before.
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Episode 5 - The Fall (1)
Release Date: 2007-01-21Two sexually conjoined mummies mysteriously fall through the the ceiling of an old City bank, resulting in the Cold Case team being called in to investigate.
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Episode 6 - The Fall (2)
Release Date: 2007-01-22As tension builds between Grace and Boyd the truth about Lisa is revealed. Meanwhile, the team have a new lead following on from Declan's death and it's a race to find the murderer before Lisa does.
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Episode 7 - Mask Of Sanity (1)
Release Date: 2007-01-28Two days after James Jenson is released from a psychiatric unit, the wallets of his victims are sent to a relative. Does this mean more murders could follow? And is James really responsible for the three coldcase murders, or did he take the blame for somebody else?
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Episode 8 - Mask Of Sanity (2)
Release Date: 2007-01-29The plot thickens as Rivelli and then Harris confess to the three cold case murders. Boyd remains suspicious though - who was the real murderer and what has Jensen got to do with it all?
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Episode 9 - Double Bind (1)
Release Date: 2007-02-04A psychiatric patient, imprisoned for the murder of his parents as a teenager escapes and reveals the location of an unknown corpse.
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Episode 10 - Double Bind (2)
Release Date: 2007-02-05The case becomes more complicated as Boyd discovers that alterative practises may have contributed to Daniel's instability.
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Episode 11 - Yahrzeit (1)
Release Date: 2007-02-18Boyd receives an anonymous package in the post – a Nazi ceremonial dagger. Attached to it is a Cold Case number, linking it to the unsolved murder of a young girl in May 1945. It seems that Mel had been working on the case before her death, what does this mean for the Cold Case Team?
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Episode 12 - Yahrzeit (2)
Release Date: 2007-02-19As Ben goes missing, Boyd and his team try to force the truth out of a confused David. Boyd grows increasingly close to Sarah, and Stella travels to Poland to investigate the true story.