The BEST episodes directed by Diarmuid Lawrence
#1 - Episode 1
Mapp and Lucia (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 1
Miss Elizabeth Mapp is thrown by the arrival of Mrs Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas.
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#2 - Hippocratic Oath (2)
Silent Witness - Season 11 - Episode 6
With Nikki out of action and Alice's surgical team closing ranks, Harry and Leo dig deeper.
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#3 - Death's Door (1)
Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 3
The team investigates the murder of a woman found dumped on the side of the road with her face removed.
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#4 - Death's Door (2)
Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 4
Harry tangles with a Russian oligarch over the murder of a journalist.
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#5 - Judgement (1)
Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 7
Harry is drawn into the murder of a Hasidic man found on disused wasteland, while Leo investigates the death of an Australian backpacker.
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#6 - Judgement (2)
Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 8
A second Hasidic boy is killed, which convinces Harry they are looking for a Jewish killer.
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#7 - Episode 2
Mapp and Lucia (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Tilling Summer Exhibition provides Lucia with a new battlefield to conquer.
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#8 - Episode 3
Mapp and Lucia (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 3
The arrival of an Italian contessa gives Mapp a chance to expose Lucia as a fraud.
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#9 - The Killing House
Ultimate Force - Season 1 - Episode 1
It's a baptism by fire when new recruits Jamie Dow and Alex Leonard join the SAS's elite fighting force team. Hot on the heels of an explosive hostage-rescue exercise in the regiment's Killing House, Red Troop led by charismatic Sergeant Henno Garvie is called to take command of a bank siege. This time the life or death situation is dramatically and tragically real.
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#10 - Hippocratic Oath (1)
Silent Witness - Season 11 - Episode 5
The murder of a John Doe leads the team to a hospital, where Nikki is investigating a top paediatric surgeon with an unusually high mortality rate.
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#11 - Episode 1
South Riding - Season 1 - Episode 1
South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking. Change is on her agenda straight away - of the curriculum, of teaching methods, of the rundown buildings. Her hurry to transform the South Riding brings her into immediate conflict with landowner Robert Carne, a man tragically trapped in his past, and wins her the friendship of Joe Astell, a reforming socialist councillor bent on improving the lives of the Yorkshire poor by means of a spanking new housing estate to replace the rural slum known as The Shacks. As term begins, Shacks girl Lydia Holly arrives at the High School, with talent to burn and domestic circumstances that make it almost impossible for her to realise her dreams. Meanwhile, Sarah is brought closer to Carne through his highly-strung and delicate daughter, Midge.
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#12 - Family Ties
Crossing Lines - Season 2 - Episode 8
A string of deaths are traced to toxic cocaine in London.
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#13 - Wealth Pays The Rent
The Body Farm - Season 1 - Episode 2
When the severed hand of a young male is found close to Harold Penton's estate, Hale is convinced that Penton is guilty of rape and murder. A wealthy businessman, Penton is also a recluse and very keen to protect his privacy. His bodyguard, Jimmy West, does his best to prevent Hale from getting too close, insisting, along with Penton's doctor, that he is too ill to be questioned. Eve and the team use forensic evidence to move forward in their investigation and although they make a compelling discovery, they still struggle to prove who is responsible for the young male's death.
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#14 - Episode 3
South Riding - Season 1 - Episode 3
After a highly charged encounter in a Manchester hotel, Sarah and Carne return to the South Riding more at odds with each other than ever, as Andrew Davies's adaptation of Winifred Holtby's rich and panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties concludes. Sarah, humiliated that Carne is avoiding her, distracts herself with work, her priority being to find a way to get Lydia Holly back to school and away from a future of domestic drudgery looking after her father and younger siblings.
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#15 - The First Killings
Messiah - Season 1 - Episode 1
DCI Red Metcalfe investigates a brutal series of murders. Each death, vile in execution, is different from the last, but the murderer leaves an unmistakable calling card, cutting out the victim's tongue and replacing it with a silver spoon.
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#16 - The Final Reckoning
Messiah - Season 1 - Episode 2
As the killings continue, a pattern emerges: each victim shares his name and occupation and type of death with one of the twelve disciples. DCI Red Metcalfe and his team try to catch the killer before he can complete his grisly quest.
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#17 - Episode 2
South Riding - Season 1 - Episode 2
Sarah’s ambitions for her school find their focus in Lydia Holly, the gifted oldest child of a labourer and his wife who live with six children in the nearby shanty town.
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#18 - No Peace For The Wicked
The Body Farm - Season 1 - Episode 1
Human remains are found splattered over the walls of a flat in in a derelict tower block. DI Craig Hale asks Dr Eve Lockhart and the Body Farm for help. The forensic scientists discover that a blast was responsible for destroying two bodies.
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#19 - Episode 2
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Season 1 - Episode 2
With Edwin Drood feared dead, Jasper tries desperately to remember events of the night before. He pursues Rosa with an intensity that pushes him to the edge of sanity, while a trail of evidence points ominously to the cathedral crypt.
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#20 - Episode 1
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Season 1 - Episode 1
Opium addict and choirmaster John Jasper has vivid dreams of killing his beloved nephew Edwin Drood and stealing his fiancée Rosa. When two exotic strangers arrive in town, Jasper's dark desires take shape and his life will never be the same again.
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