The BEST episodes written by Claire Fryer

The Artist
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7.59
73 votes

#1 - The Artist

Suspects - Season 3 - Episode 1

DI Martha Bellamy welcomes back DS Jack Weston after a period of enforced leave following the paedophile investigation, warning him this is his final chance. Jack and DC Charlie Steele investigate when a popular art teacher is found with life-threatening head injuries at a sixth-form college, with suspicions falling on handyman Ben Peel and head Rory O'Hanlon.

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Connections
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7.59
68 votes

#2 - Connections

Suspects - Season 3 - Episode 4

After teenager Mandy Granger goes missing the body of a young girl is found dumped on waste ground though Mandy's mother Natalie claims it is not her daughter. The police discover that Mandy made the 999 call and CCTV reveals her violent father Andrew fighting with Jez, her boyfriend, who is a trans-sexual previously called Julie and Andrew is arrested. Then Oliver, who dated Jez when she was Julie, is in the frame, having sent her abusive texts. A drunken party which got out of hand eventually holds the key to who killed Jez and what happened to Mandy.

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Eyes Closed
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7.35
91 votes

#3 - Eyes Closed

Suspects - Season 1 - Episode 5

Jack and Charlie are called out in the early hours after a 13-year-old girl is stabbed. The hospital reports back that she was eight weeks pregnant, shows signs of possible self-harming and had been previously sexually assaulted, while a number on her mobile phone belongs to the cab driver who drove her to hospital and claimed he did not know her.

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Victim
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7.26
65 votes

#4 - Victim

Suspects - Season 3 - Episode 2

The detectives investigate when a young woman is fished out of the Thames in the middle of the night, badly burnt and barely alive, with the only witnesses at the scene being a few homeless people who saw a man with a white van dumping the body in the river. Charlie runs the victim's distinctive necklace through the database and links it to Sian Jenkins, who was registered as missing in 2012, and events take a further turn when DNA taken from under her fingernails is matched to a girl who disappeared when she was eight almost a decade previously.

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Safe from Harm
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7.11
65 votes

#5 - Safe from Harm

Suspects - Season 3 - Episode 3

Teenager Asif Khan is seriously injured after a petrol bomb is thrown into the family home. His father Jamal accuses shady businessman Gregor Forrester of intimidating him into a property deal and using disgraced former policeman David Eboda, a former mentor to Jack, as his heavy. When Forrester's son Zach goes missing it seems that Jamal is out for revenge though he has an alibi, which is more than Forrester has for the night of the arson attack. A secret love triangle and an attempt to give the illusion of a kidnapping are revealed before the case is closed.

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Alone
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7.06
175 votes

#6 - Alone

Suspects - Season 1 - Episode 1

A two-year-old girl is abducted from her home and her dysfunctional family comes under immediate suspicion, but then a convicted child killer is also connected to the case.

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