Monday, 9 February 2026

Silent Witness Quadruple Bill: Season 8 (2004)

A Time To Heal. Stephen Brady. Director Ashley Pearce.

Our trio are in Northern Ireland where two bodies from the Troubles have been found. Is one of them the father of Kathy Kiera Clarke? Is politician Bryan Murray involved?

Sam begins to realise that her father might have been involved, and that some of the police he worked with might be bent.

And - she has a son, a badun who's been in prison twice already and wants her help.

When Sam is deliberately run over it's quite a moment. Andreas Petrides is the stunt coordinator.

Death By Water. Dusty Hughes. Director Patrick Lau.

In Sam's absence Leo and Harry fall out over the latter's possible promotion to professor - shit Anton Lesser also after the job. And they can't agree to the cause of a group of kids who suddenly experience breathing problems. It takes further deaths for them to work it out. Natalie Press is in cast.

This one lumbers a bit more than usual and Sam's absence is keenly felt. Which is why in

Nowhere Fast (Richard Holland, director Danny Hiller) it's a breath of fresh air when Nikki (Emilia Fox) turns up. cleaning her teeth in the mortuary sink, and investigating some iron age bones. She quickly becomes part of the team. ("I thought you'd never ask.")


The story involved the deaths of a horse and a jockey, and the passengers on a helicopter.

Anastasia Hille, James Wilby, Ramon Tikaram (This Life), Adam Jessop.

Harry has been helping a copper Joe Duttine (Life on Mars) who it turns out likes to fit up his suspects.

And another multi-body episode involving a train crash, Body 21 (Michael Crompton, director Douglas Mackinnon). The army is involved, and a survivor's group. Emma Cunniffe, Danny Webb, Stephen Boxer, Eddie Marsan, briefly. And some great prosthetics.

Emilia is Edward Fox and Joanna David's daughter and sister of Freddie. She was in TV's Pride and Prejudice, Shooting the Past, The Pianist, Keeping Mum, lots of other stuff, and - so far - 207 episodes of this!

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