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Wire in the Blood
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Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/12/2008
Unnatural Vices, Part 1
The dissected remains of a young Kurdish woman are found in a torched suitcase on a patch of wasteland, and police suspect it may be an honour killing, until further remains are found on the site. DC Collins, on assignment to the team, finds himself personally involved as the case develops.
Season 6, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/19/2008
Unnatural Vices, Part 2
DC Collins confesses to a relationship with the latest victim. Alex's investigation into those involved in Bradfield's thriving sado-masochism scene continues, as Tony tries to get inside the head of the killer. The investigation takes on greater urgency when a member of the team disappears.
Season 6, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/26/2008
Falls the Shadow, Part 1
Tony, speaking at a convention on experimental psychology, becomes the prime suspect when a fellow delegate is brutally murdered in her hotel room. Alex, meanwhile, investigates a series of murders of street prostitutes.
Season 6, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/3/2008
Falls the Shadow, Part 2
Tony, suspected of the involvement in the murder of two psychologists, is desperate to prove his innocence. Some lateral thinking leads him to a connection between those deaths and the prostitute murders.
Season 6, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/10/2008
From the Defeated, Part 1
The body of a young man is discovered, having apparently been beaten, strangled and shot. When a second body is linked to the first, it seems he may have killed the first man. But who killed the second?
Season 6, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/17/2008
From the Defeated, Part 2
Alex and Tony continue their investigation into a series of murders of young men. The case takes a turn when an Asian man is killed in different circumstances. Meanwhile, cannibalistic serial killer Michael Bryant escapes from custody, has Tony in his sights.
Season 6, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/24/2008
The Dead Land, Part 1
The bodies of a number of homeless men, all stabbed through the heart, are being dumped around Bradfield's financial district. A new detective, Hall, joins the team when Alex is called away.
Season 6, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/31/2008
The Dead Land, Part 2
Tony is put under police protection when the area mental health commissioner is brutally murdered. As Tony and Hall uncover the rituals behind the serial killings, the team follows the evidence to a likely suspect, but Tony realises that not all of the victims are who they appeared to be.
Season 5
Episode one: The Colour of Amber
Dr Tony Hill (Robson Green) and DI Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib) are in a race against time when a young girl is seen being snatched by a man in a car.
Alex knows her chances of finding the girl alive are falling sharply as the first hour slips by and reacts by calling an Amber alert. The media is flooded with pleas for information. Meanwhile Tony is building a profile of likely abductors.
He rules out the first police suspect: a paedophile recently re-homed on the estate. The man prefers boys but as public anger rises he has to sit in a police holding cell for his own safety.
Meanwhile, a distraught mother, Celeste comes forward identifying the missing girl as her daughter Janita. She should be safely at school, but neither she nor her young friend Mikey turned up. Celeste is stricken because Janita’s twin died in infancy. Is she going to lose another child?
Tony knows that a likely abductor will know the area and know his escape routes. But searches produce no matches. And although she struggled, the abducted girl had her chance to run but didn’t take it. So was the abductor a stranger, or someone she knew after all? Janita’s father and step-father both have alibis.
When Janita’s friend Mikey, the last person to have seen her alive, is found trying to burn his blood-stained school uniform he also enters the frame as a possible suspect. But Mikey refuses to talk.
Episode two: Nocebo
A teenage girl and a young boy are found dead and they appear to have been victims of a ritual killing. Alex (Simone Lahbib) is upset by the lack of care shown by their bereaved families as she’s having problems of her own with her son Ben.
The trail leads to links with a property tycoon who’ll stop at nothing to get the rent paid, a preacher whose “healing” activities involve animal sacrifice, and a self-styled artist whose works are painted in blood.
For Tony (Robson Green) the dead bodies could be a warning and he puzzles over what the killer might want to gain and why. Is this caused by a religious cult? Is it one killer or two with one suspect following the other?
Meanwhile Alex has taken Tony’s advice and hired a nanny, easing her pressures with Ben and work. When the nanny returns home without Ben the team realise the awful truth.
The killer has been lurking unseen but close by, manipulating the police via psychological suggestion just as they have manipulated their victims. And the killer now has Ben.
Episode three: The Names of Angels
Tony (Robson Green) is faced with a series of deadly puzzles when a killer rapes and strangles young female victims in Bradfield. He chooses to dress and identify them as young women he killed several years before in Europe.
Why is he boasting to police about his past, leaving the bodies where they can easily be found? And why is he choosing confident, successful victims from the world of business, and killing in Bradfield?
Tony and Alex (Simone Lahbib) begin to link the foreign murders to the names of more than one Bradfield businessman. Could these people be prime suspects or are they still further victims caught in the killer’s web?
They must discover if the killer is really wealthy and powerful or someone with no money and a vengeful desire to steal from others.
Meanwhile, Tony has his own problems when 18-year-old released killer Jack (Jack O’Connell) turns up on his doorstep. He’s on the run from his social workers and police.
On top of that Alex longs for Tony’s help when she discovers that Ben has been secretly in contact with his dad. But pride stops her from confessing her need, and sparks a series of misunderstandings.
Episode four: Anything You Can Do
The murder of an elderly woman, suffocated in her own home, seems too deliberately staged to be an accident or robbery.
And when Alex (Simone Lahbib) calls in Tony (Robson Green) he realises the killer will strike again.
To set a trap, Tony and Alex hold a public meeting which Tony predicts the killer will be compelled to attend.
At the meeting, Tony’s profile of the murderer sees one member of the public stand out as prime suspect – thuggish security guard Kelly.
He lives with his overbearing mother and has also been seen near the scene of crime by several witnesses - including frightened local man Donovan.
But Kelly and his mother hold out under questioning and, as Tony predicted, the first murder proves to be the start of several killings. They all show the same signature but apparently different personality traits in the finer details of their execution. The differences seem too profound to allow for only one killer.
Meanwhile, Tony has an initially pleasant surprise when old friend Jonathan (Michael Maloney), a psychologist whose work he admired when they were students together, turns up out of the blue. But Alex immediately dislikes Jonathan, and her instincts are proved right.
Season 4
Episode one - Series 4 - Time to Murder and Create
First aired: 9/20/2006
Tony Hill is discredited when a rapist convicted on the basis of a forensic psychological profile is released on appeal. He offers to assist an investigation into the murder of a body found buried in a field but new DI Alex Fielding doesn't want him anywhere near the case, until it appears that a sadistic serial killer is at large.
Writer: Patrick Harbinson
Director: Andy Goddard
Episode two - Series 4 -Torment
First aired: 9/27/2006
A prostitute is murdered and the m.o. matches that of a convicted serial killer. Tony Hill tries to get answers from the convict, who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic and who refuses to cooperate. Things get worse when DC Paula McIntyre is kidnapped by the killer.
Episode three - Series 4 -Hole in the Heart
First aired: 10/4/2006
When Tony saves student Kurt from leaping to his death, he wonders why someone might want to take their own life. Meanwhile a businessman and his accountant die in a horrible fire. These are not the last pair of corpses found in Bradfield and Alex finds herself turning to Tony for help.
Writer: Niall Leonard
Director: A. J. Quinn
Episode four - Series 4 -The Wounded Surgeon
First aired: 10/11/2006
When Jason Eglee comes up for parole, Tony's first case with the police comes back to haunt him. After the discovery of a girl was murdered in the same circumstances as Eglee's former victim, Tony has no doubt that Eglee is starting a new spree. Tony's confidence begins to crumble and Alex decides she can no longer permit him to work for the police.
Writer: Patrick Harbinson
Director: Peter Hoar