Waking the Dead: Season 6

Chief Inspector Boyd and his team are back to reopen the file of more cold cases in this Emmy award-winning drama. Series Six sees Boyd and his team delve deep into the culture and traditions of Irish Travelers to investigate the mysterious death of a young boy drowned in a concrete pit; uncover a gruesome secret buried in the City of London around the time of Black Wednesday; and re-visit three murders once thought to be the work of a notorious serial killer, but now are under suspicion. With pressure from all sides, not least MI6, can the team shed new light on past cases to ensure that justice is done in the present?

Episode 1: Wren Boys: Part 1
Original Air Date-7 January 2007
Davy, a young boy is drowned in concrete, is it suicide, accident, or murder?

Episode 2: Wren Boys: Part 2
Original Air Date-8 January 2007
Having identified the dead boy as Davy McDonagh, the police try to determine why he and his brother Joe fought all those years ago and what exactly happened to Davy afterward. Having established a link between the McDonagh clan and the fight organizers, the solution to the case revolves around jealousy and the love of the same woman.

Episode 3: Deus Ex Machina: Part 1
Original Air Date-14 January 2007
The team is assigned to recover the skull of the Mahdi, taken from the Sudan as a war trophy at the end of the 19th century. No one has any idea where the skull may be, but Chief Superintendent Boyd is told that returning the relic is key to peace in the Sudan. He's also asked to look into the death 20 years previously of a Sudanese refugee, Omar Jaffiri, as there is evidence that his death and the disappearance of the skull may be connected. Their investigation leads them to the Fakir Society, a hundred year old private club that has many secrets.

Episode 4: Deus Ex Machina: Part 2
Original Air Date-15 January 2007
Having recovered a skull, the question is now whether it is that of the Mahdi. Information about Omar Jaffiri suggests that he may have been tortured before he died. His now adult daughter assists the police, event though she was quite young at the time of her father's murder in the family shop. What they deduce is a connection between the victim and the Fakir lodge, as well as the shadier side of government.

Episode 5: The Fall: Part 1
Original Air Date-21 January 2007
When two bodies are found during the renovation of a building in the City, Det. Supt. Boyd and the cold case squad find themselves investigating a murder that occurred in 1992. The victims were apparently planning to run off as the police also find airline tickets and false passports. The couple was apparently having sex when a single bullet killed them both. They are identified as Mervyn Simmel, a securities trader who was under investigation for insider trading and Katherine Keane, a financial journalist responsible for uncovering several financial scandals. As the investigation continues, the police identify several possible suspects. Simmel had a falling out with his partner, Lucien Calvin, who subsequently left the financial industry. As for Keane, she was married and also had several lovers, so there is any number of suspects.

Episode 6: The Fall: Part 2
Original Air Date-22 January 2007

Episode 7: Mask of Sanity: Part 1
Original Air Date-28 January 2007
James Jensen has just been released after spending 20 years in a psychiatric institution. He had admitted to killing three men and in the course of his trial, he attacked a male nurse that had been assigned to care for him. The judge ruled he was unfit to stand trial and was incarcerated indefinitely. On his release however, the widow of Henry Goss, one of the three victims, receives the wallets of each of the dead men. James has no recollection of the events leading up to his original arrest and can't explain some elements of his confession. James is however haunted by memories of his time at the Hickley Home for Children, where he grew up. The fact that all three of the original victims were in some way connected to the children's home does not escape the police's attention.

Episode 8: Mask of Sanity: Part 2
Original Air Date-29 January 2007
Another murder has been committed and Boyd knows he must track down the killer before he strikes again. Does the answer lie in events at the children's home many years previously?

Episode 9: Double Bind: Part 1
Original Air Date-4 February 2007
A badly decomposed body is discovered buried in a Hampstead garden, while a convicted murderer escapes from a secure psychiatric unit. The team is drawn back to a horrific double parricide from 1967.

Episode 10: Double Bind: Part 2
Original Air Date-5 February 2007
After Daniel Lennon attacks Dr. Raymond Parke, who is known for his unorthodox psychiatric views, the police try to learn more about the goings on at the house where the doctor experimented on his youthful patients in the 1960's. Grace returns temporarily to help with Daniel's nephew Mark, who is now showing many of the same symptoms as his uncle at that age. The pathologist provides crucial evidence on the death of Daniel's parents but as Daniel once again takes LSD in an attempt to jar his memories from 40 years ago, the police try to locate him before he can do harm to himself or others.

Episode 11: Yahrzeit: Part 1
Original Air Date-18 February 2007
This episode revolves around a cold case from May 1945, where a young girl was found stabbed to death in a London back street. The identity of the girl is finally revealed by her diary which was found in a derelict house. DC Mel Silver seemed to have worked on the case just before her death. So says Sarah, a Nazi hunter, who pretends to be working for Interpol. She sent a ceremonial SS-dagger to Boyd's team; this turns out to be the murder weapon, and it came from that same house, belonging to a family of Jewish-Polish decent, who seem to have a lot of secrets, leading right back right to the darkest chapter of German history. Meanwhile people start dying in the "now". To tell much more would be a spoiler. Expect a starring performance by Eileen Atkins as the matriarch.

Episode 12: Yahrzeit: Part 2
Original Air Date-19 February 2007
As the investigation continues, the police learn, through DNA tests that the Dusniak family may not be what they pretend to be. Boyd and the team must piece together a complex tale of deception and identity theft that ultimately reveals some of the horrors of WW II and the Nazi medical experiments. Boyd and the Mossad agent develop a personal relationship.

Directed byAndy Hay, Edward Bennett, David Thacker
Written by Barbara Machin, Ed Whitmor, Declan Croghane
Produced by Colin Wratten, Richard Burrell, Joy Spink
Executive Produced by Susan Hogg, Alexei de Keyser, Anne Pivcevic, Patrick Spence
Original Music by Joe Campbell, Paul Hart
Film Editing by Adam Trotman, Andrew McClelland
Costume Design by Kerry Hirst, Marlene Lawlor