The WORST episodes of Waking the Dead

#1 - Wounds (2)

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/13/2008

#2 - Multistorey (1)

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/2003

A man accused of opening fire on a crowd from a multi storey car park, and killed a policeman, is claiming his innocence. Boyd's colleagues question his loyalties when he seems unwilling to re-investigate. As DC Mel Silver digs deeper, she discovers some disturbing truths about her boss.

#3 - Multistorey (2)

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2003

Boyd struggles with his past while continuing the investigation on a mass murderer who was also guilty of killing his close friend. Are the Gunman's claims of innocence true? As the team investigate it looks as if someone else may have been involved.

#4 - Shadowplay (1)

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/15/2004

A young woman with a history of psychiatric problems kills her family by setting the family home on fire. She admits to the crime, but claims that she was coerced in to doing it by a mysterious character known only by the name 'The Shepherd'. Her psychiartrist links her case to similar cases and gets the Cold Case Squad involved.

#5 - Shadowplay (2)

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/16/2004

Boyd and the team continue to investigate the arson case and the other two other possible crime connections to 'The Shepherd'. Will the team discover this person's true identity or will it all turn out to be a part of the imagination of a mentally ill woman?

#6 - Towers of Silence (1)

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2005

A mummified body is discovered in a disused airliner that has been parked in the desert for 6 years. There are indications of a link to an armed robbery at Heathrow Airport six years earlier, and a murder at around the same time. Our team gains two new members. DS Andrea Stephenson takes over for DS Mel Silver, and the new mad scientist is Dr Felix Gibson.

#7 - Towers of Silence (2)

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/2005

Spencer goes undercover as a prison inmate to investigate the possible reasons for the murders from the man convicted of committing the crimes. To Spence's dismay, the man (who is too scared to say anything about what happened) commits suicide before he can be coerced into revealing who the real killer is.

#8 - Black Run (1)

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2005

Under the impression that he may receive a confession, Boyd accepts the invite for a visit to the prison from former police officer Eddie Vine, who is serving a life sentence for murdering his friend and former fellow officer, Tom Pallisser.

#9 - Subterraneans (1)

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/2005

A millionaire businessman is found dead, a year after he dissapeared. It appears that during the time he was missing he was being held prisoner. But why...

#10 - Subterraneans (2)

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/3/2005

The team discover the brutally murdered body of a man in the same cellar that the businessman was held hostage in. While investigating the two victims, the team find an unlikely suspect. They're positive of his connection to the murders, but need to collect the evidence to prove it.

#11 - Straw Dog (1)

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/2005

Grace is haunted by an old case that she assisted on at the beginning of her career when she is asked to give evidence at the assailant's appeal hearing.

#12 - Straw Dog (2)

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/10/2005

Someone possibly copying the past crimes begins harassing Grace about her testimony against Tony Greene. If she doesn't admit that she was wrong about him, the assailant promises to murder the victim he/she is holding hostage.

#13 - Undertow (1)

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/2005

A criminal is about to be released, the team is sure he is a serial killer. They enter in a race against the clock to prove their suspicions to prevent his upcoming release.

#14 - Undertow (2)

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/2005

A criminal is about to be released, the team is sure he is a serial killer. They enter in a race against the clock to prove their suspicions and prevent his upcoming release.

#15 - Black Run (2)

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/2005

Boyd is suspended from work after being involved in a hit and run accident while possibly under the influence. While also trying to find out who framed Boyd, the team continue trying to find out if Vine is innocent or not.

#16 - Burn Out (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/19/2001

Boyd has Marinas uncle, Mike Coleman and her mother Gwen brought in for questioning while Frankie searches the house. The team find the items that were recovered from the car nine years ago and suspect that Perry Coleman was being blackmailed by Rod Brogan, a friend of Perry's. Boyd has the body exhumed and the DNA results suprise everyone

#17 - Duty and Honour(1)

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/2008

The accidental excavation of a human hand leads the cold case squad to the cover-up of a major incident.

#18 - Thin Air (2)

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2002

While under pressure to discover the truth behind the murder of young Joanna, DCI Boyd (Trevor Eve) slips up and makes possibly some irreversible mistakes. Joanna's killer begins stalking her sister.

#19 - Thin Air (1)

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2002

Twelve years after Joanna Gold famously disappeared in broad daylight on Hampstead Heath, the dress she was wearing is found in a lock-up. The team begin the hunt for her killer.

#20 - Special Relationship (2)

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/17/2002

Whle facing a surprise audit from the Home Office, DCI Boyd (Trevor Eve) and the team try to continue their investigation into the murder ... but as they go on with their inquiries at Whitehall, they quickly discover the atmosphere to be very dark and secretive.

#21 - Special Relationship (1)

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/2002

Boyd and his team struggle to find the truth behind the murder of a prominent Home Office adviser, when a petty criminal is acquitted of the crime. Once a prominent feminist activist, victim Katherine Reed had attacked the establishment at every opportunity, only to later switch sides. Boyd's progress on the case is hampered not only by a Home Office audit, which means the team will be shadowed throughout, but also by the fact that the original investigation was conducted by one of his old flames.

#22 - Deathwatch (2)

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/10/2002

The postliminary inquiries into Harry Newman's past and the identities of the possible twelve murder victims uncover a connection to the infamous trial and execution of a well known gangster.

#23 - Deathwatch (1)

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/2002

Boyd and the team take on the task of infiltrating the dark underworld of London's gangland crime families when Harry Newman makes a deathbed confession to 12 "unauthorised killings". Dr Grace Foley is intrigued by this strange expression but Boyd and the rest of the team are tempted to dismiss it as the meanderings of a dying man. Until, that is, forensic psychologist Frankie Wharton discovers that Newman did not die of natural causes, but has been murdered. They soon realise there's a lot more to Newman than they imagined. Added to all that, there's a link to a famous fifties trial in which a gangster was hanged for killing two policemen.

#24 - Every Breath You Take (2)

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/10/2001

Grace is not convinced that the stalker who confessed to the murder is truly guilty. But who really killed the police officer? Was it possibly the stalker, her ex-husband, or the married father of her unborn baby?

#25 - A Simple Sacrifice (1)

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/2/2001

Boyd and the team decide to reopen the 25 year old case of Annie Keel, a woman who was tried and convicted of a double homicide solely based upon her own confession. Boyd doubts the validity of the conviction, and decides to dig deeper to possibly discover what really happened. Why did Annie confess? Did she really commit murder, or was she covering for someone else?