The BEST episodes written by David Kane
#1 - Episode 2
Murder on the Home Front - Season 1 - Episode 2
Lennox soon finds out that he is not only fighting a battle to modernise the way in which crimes are solved, but he’s also clashing with a government who will go to any lengths to ensure the country’s morale is sustained even if that means covering up a murder.
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#2 - The Dead Hour (2)
The Field of Blood - Season 2 - Episode 2
As war breaks out in the newsroom, Paddy's investigation uncovers a dirty tricks campaign against the NUM and a government cover-up. The Glasgow Daily News is in danger, and so are its journalists. Can they stop fighting each other long enough to discover the complex truth?
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#3 - Episode 6
Shetland - Season 4 - Episode 6
Troubled by historical DNA evidence results, Jimmy has to face the fact that Duncan may have been involved in Lizzie Kilmuir's murder, and potentially Sally McColl's as well. A shocked Duncan is brought to the station for questioning, hurt that Perez would even think him capable of murder. However, the detective knows Duncan's lying - perhaps not about the murder, but about something else significant. So when Duncan finally admits he had an affair with Donna, it's not long before a bombshell is dropped.
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#5 - The Cage
Foyle's War - Season 7 - Episode 2
Foyle's investigation into the death of a nameless Russian leads to a mysterious military facility and the discovery that the victim was a spy with dangerous connections to British intelligence.
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#6 - The Dead Hour (1)
The Field of Blood - Season 2 - Episode 1
The award-winning 2011 crime drama returns with another two-part story, set against the backdrop of the 1980s newspaper industry. Journalist Paddy Meehan attends a domestic disturbance involving a well-known human rights lawyer, and sees an opportunity for a scoop when the woman is found murdered the next morning. But her investigation brings conflict to the newsroom and puts both her and her colleagues in grave danger as powerful forces try to hide the truth.
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#7 - Episode 5
Shetland - Season 4 - Episode 5
Following Jo's assault, the team is devastated. While Sandy feels guilty for not protecting her more, Jimmy tries to keep everyone focused, but pressure mounts on him to re-arrest Malone. However, in the absence of evidence, Perez resists. Adding to his stress, DI Cole and DS Jackson from the MIT arrive and begin picking holes in his investigation. Stunned that a search of Malone's farmhouse has not been carried out, Cole and Jackson conduct their own. However, when they arrive, Malone is nowhere to be seen.
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#8 - Episode 1
Murder on the Home Front - Season 1 - Episode 1
First of a two-part crime drama set during the the birth of modern forensics - the London Blitz of 1940. When a number of young women are found murdered with swastikas carved on their tongues, DI Freddy Wilkins has a prime suspect in vulnerable loner Wilfred Ziegler. But the passionate and brilliant Home Office pathologist Dr Lennox Collins and his vivacious young secretary Molly Cooper have their doubts. Employing ground-breaking forensic techniques, can Lennox and Molly save a seemingly innocent man from the gallows or is there more to these murders than meets the eye?
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#10 - Episode 4
Shetland - Season 4 - Episode 4
Perez and Tosh are warned to stay away from Mathias Soderland by the Norwegian Secret Service, who tell them they're meddling in an operation they don't understand. With Soderland their prime suspect for Sally McColl's murder, Perez and Tosh won't be bullied. However, their investigation is suddenly derailed by a shocking discovery.
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#12 - Episode 1
Shetland - Season 4 - Episode 1
When Shetlander Thomas Malone has his murder conviction overturned after 23 years, which he's spent behind bars, Perez has to reopen an investigation into the 1994 death of local teenager Lizzie Kilmuir. Later, Perez gets a text from Cassie saying she is unexpectedly flying back to Shetland, so he and Duncan meet her at the airport.
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#14 - The Field of Blood (2)
The Field of Blood - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Daily News staff are stunned by the death of a colleague and it quickly becomes clear to Paddy that she is out of her depth. Assisted by handsome journalist, Terry, Paddy closes in on her prime suspect but without concrete proof no one will believe her so she plants evidence on him and informs the police. Suddenly realising she may have implicated the wrong man she confides in the one person at the newspaper she truly trusts, the once brilliant Dr Pete, a journalist of some repute now dying of cancer caused by a lifetime’s hard drinking. But her realisation comes too late.
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#15 - Resurrection Men
Rebus - Season 4 - Episode 1
The body of an art gallery owner is found dumped on Calton Hill. DS Clarke is put in charge of the investigation, while Rebus is sent back on an occupational therapy course. Far from being redeemed, Rebus falls in with two corrupt officers, who may have been involved in the murder…
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#17 - The Field of Blood (1)
The Field of Blood - Season 1 - Episode 1
It’s 1982 and Glasgow is shocked by the horrific murder of two year old Brian Wilcox. Paddy Meehan, copy boy at the Glasgow Daily News, the city’s largest broadsheet, is fascinated by the story and waits, along with the rest of the city, for the inevitable arrest of a murderer. When ambitious young Paddy finds out that her ten year old cousin has been charged with the crime she faces a stark choice between the two defining elements in her life. On one side her job at the paper and dreams of becoming a journalist; on the other her tight knit Catholic family who want her to stop all this career nonsense and settle down to a quiet life with her fiancée.
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#18 - The Naming of the Dead
Rebus - Season 4 - Episode 3
An unidentified body is found at the Macintosh House Hotel, venue for the World Trade Summit. Later, the body of a Scottish Executive minister is found beneath Edinburgh Castle. Rebus investigates, but soon finds himself at loggerheads with the commander of SO12, in charge of security for the summit.
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#21 - Red Bones (1)
Shetland - Season 1 - Episode 1
Elderly Shetlander Mima Wilson is found murdered on the archaeological site in the grounds of her croft. Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez and his team investigate. Can Perez unravel the family feuds and secrets that emerge and restore the security of his beloved Shetland Islands?
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#26 - Bloodsport
Taggart - Season 27 - Episode 5
The murder of a boxer leads the team into a murky world of cage fighting, illegal gambling and lap dancing. And Ross's own gambling addiction is exposed