She created it and wrote the pilot, as a rapist / killer from five years before kidnaps another schoolgirl and starts taunting DI Boyd, Trevor Eve. We are quickly introduced to the team, psychoanalyst Grace, Sue Johnston, pathologist Frankie, Holly Aird, detectives Mel and Spencer, Claire Goose and Wil Johnson.
I actually managed to work out the second one, Burn Out, quite early on. (Writer Edward Bennett.) (These are two-parters like Silent Witness. Unlike that show everyone's in a huff most of the time and Boyd likes exploding.) The team manage to solve a complicated case really easily. Boyd decides to follow the story of a young woman who's father was killed years before - she thinks it was murder. (It's a young Angela Griffin.) Boyd has lost his son, so sympathises. Clive Russell, Ralph Brown, Beverly Hills.
Some nice music flourishes from Joe & Co. (whatever that is).
Interestingly I heard Eve say that part of the attraction was that Boyd was not a fully rounded character on the page and so it gave him the opportunity to develop him.
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