Waking the Dead: Season 2

Pulse-pounding crime drama is Dead ahead. The Cold Case Unit is a crack team of three detectives, a forensic expert and a psychological profiler, tasked with reopening the files on unsolved murders. Led by quick-tempered, no-nonsense DCI Boyd (Trevor Eve, Troy, Heat of the Sun), they mix cutting-edge forensics, psychology and good old-fashioned gumshoe work?all while under enormous pressure to get results. In the riveting second season, the squad partners with a psychotic killer to stop a copycat assailant, then descends into the murky underworld of London's gangland crime families. Meanwhile, governmental bureaucracy and cover-ups hinder their progress, and Boyd makes terrible mistakes while attempting to discover the truth behind the disappearance of an 18- year-old girl. This winner of an International Emmy? for Best Drama Series co-stars Sue Johnston (The Royle Family), Wil Johnson (Cracker), and Holly Aird (Kavanagh Q.C.).

Life Sentence, Part 1
Life Sentence, Part 2
Death Watch, Part 1
Death Watch, Part 2
Special Relationship, Pat 1
Special Relationship, Part 2
Thin Air, Part 1
Thin Air, Part 2

The Cold Case squad is a crack team of three detectives, a forensic expert and a psychological profiler. Their brief, to reopen the files on unsolved murders. In this season, a psychotic killer is the key to an investigation when a victim who survived is harassed by a copycat assailant; a deathbed confession appears to link the hanging of an East End gangster and the assassination of the jury who found him guilty; the team come up against a wall of Whitehall secrecy when a petty burglar is acquitted of murdering a prominent Home Officer advisor; and DCI Boyd makes terrible mistakes while under pressure to discover the truth behind the disappearance of an 18-year-old girl.