The BEST episodes written by Ed Whitmore

#1 - Limbo

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Season 6 - Episode 1

Old wounds are reopened when Lynley investigates the disturbing death of his godson more than a decade after the boy's disappearance. Lynley is drawn into the case, leading him first to Rome and then headlong into the middle of a new murder enquiry in which Lynley himself becomes the prime suspect. Will Havers be able to save his skin?

#2 - The Wood Beyond

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 3 - Episode 4

Pascoe has his life thrown into turmoil when he discovers that his grandfather was shot as deserter during World War One, Dalziel manages to fall for the prime suspect in the case (an animal rights raid on a pharmaceutical company and the discovery of a skeleton in the grounds of the place) he is investigating.

#3 - In the Blink of an Eye

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Season 5 - Episode 4

When former war photographer Peter Rooker is shot, a murder trail from tabloid newspaper mogul Eddie Price and editor Melissa Booth is traced back to a family executed by the Serbian militia in Bosnia. When Lynley asks his wife Helen to assist him with unlocking the psychological history behind the killing, he sets in motion a tragic trail of events.

#4 - Know Thine Enemy

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Season 6 - Episode 2

Lynley and Havers's friendship is pushed to its limits in a high profile and chilling investigation into the disappearance of two teenage girls. Can Lynley save the life of the second victim and pin a murder charge on his suspects?

#5 - Chinese Walls

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Season 5 - Episode 3

When aspiring lawyer Emily Proctor is found axed to death in Hyde Park, Lynley and Havers are drawn to the chambers of human rights lawyer Tony Wainwright and his clerk Hester Reed. Wainwright's passionate temper and a concealed affair with the victim seem to place him as the main suspect, but when Emily's double life is exposed, Lynley and Havers enter a world of internet porn and a family haunted by secrets.

#6 - King’s Cross (2)

Silent Witness - Season 27 - Episode 10

There are further twists ahead for Nikki, Jack and the team as they work with the police to explore multiple avenues to solve a 20-year-old case.

#7 - The Suspect

Manhunt (2019) - Season 1 - Episode 3

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton briefs the team in preparation for Bellfield’s arrest. But when they raid his home they can’t find him. Have they lost him? DS Griffiths persuades Bellfield’s frightened partner Laura Marsh to reveal that he is hiding up in the loft. DS Griffiths searches the loft, and finds Bellfield hiding under some fibreglass roof insulation. Finally they have Bellfield in custody.

#8 - King’s Cross (1)

Silent Witness - Season 27 - Episode 9

The Lyell are called to King's Cross Station Museum, where they discover the bodies of eight victims entombed below. With the knowledge that a prolific serial killer was operating in London nearly 20 years ago, Nikki and the team know this will be a case like no other.

#9 - History (2)

Silent Witness - Season 25 - Episode 2

DNA evidence linked to the Health Secretary’s assassination forces Nikki to face her past in the present. As her investigation progresses, Nikki realises that its consequences will affect her, and her profession, forever.

#10 - Southbay (2)

Silent Witness - Season 26 - Episode 10

As the evidence mounts against the accused police officer, the local CID finds dissent within their ranks. The Lyell team unveil corruption and deceit within the local jurisdiction, with deadly and wide-reaching consequences.

#11 - Death Has No Dominion (1)

Silent Witness - Season 15 - Episode 1

When Leo's friend commits suicide, Harry and Nikki are called to the scene of a violent and calculated murder, which is thought to be the work of an apparently dormant serial killer.

#12 - Death Has No Dominion (2)

Silent Witness - Season 15 - Episode 2

Harry and DI James deviate from the original investigation to secretly test DNA evidence from the rival Chesham laboratory to try to solve this stalled case.

#13 - Tressed to Kill

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 12 - Episode 13

When a woman is found dead and her hair is done up '70s style complete with vintage clothes, the CSI team discovers clues that point to a killer with a hair fetish.

#14 - Second Life

Identity - Season 1 - Episode 1

Justin Curtis (John Hopkins) has shot a PC who wanted to arrest him for the hit and run of Audrey Byrne (Dorothy Duff). Curtis claims he has been set up by ‘Smith’, a sadistic identity thief intent on destroying his life. The Identity Unit prove that Curtis couldn’t have committed the crime. The team go back over all the cases of wholesale identity fraud over the last few years and two more similar cases emerge. Bloom (Aidan Gillen) is convinced that ‘Smith’ is punishing his victims for playing away from home. Bloom knows that Curtis has a secret life – as soon as Bloom persuades him to spill, he uncovers the real identity of ‘Smith’. Martha (Keeley Hawes) and Bloom have him in their sights – will they catch him or will he outwit them once more?

#15 - Southbay (1)

Silent Witness - Season 26 - Episode 9

Jack is sucked into a complex case where he’s pitted against his former mentor. The tight-knit group of police officers provide a difficult case where nothing is as it seems.

#16 - Unleashed

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 11 - Episode 19

Langston and Sara turn to Lady Heather for help in tracking down the culprit responsible for injuring a woman before she was seemingly mauled to death by a mountain lion. Meanwhile, Nick and Dr. Robbins manage to rescue the unborn baby of a teenage girl who appears to have committed suicide

#17 - History (1)

Silent Witness - Season 25 - Episode 1

Sam Ryan recruits the Lyell team to investigate the assassination of the health secretary, but Nikki is unsure whether Sam knows more than she's letting on.

#18 - Episode 5

The Winter King - Season 1 - Episode 5

Derfel feels uncomfortable about the attack on the mine – which Owain is keeping a secret. Nimue is discovered by Merlin who helps heal her. Tristan arrives demanding retribution but Owain denies his guilt.

#19 - Fugue States (1)

Waking the Dead - Season 4 - Episode 5

In 1990 - Jason and Cindy, two 5 year-old twins disappear from their home, and even after a nationwide search is launched, they are still not found. Thirteen years later, Jason is found in a hospital suffering from injuries he sustained in a car accident. But where's Cindy? Boyd and the team set out to find her. Mel Silver is trying to find her biological mother

#20 - The Van

Manhunt (2019) - Season 1 - Episode 2

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton and his team are trying to identify the white van they have discovered close to the crime scene at the time of the attack from an extensive trawl of CCTV images - but there are 25,000 possible vans that need to be checked and eliminated.

#21 - Episode 4

The Winter King - Season 1 - Episode 4

A former warrior now turned monk, tells the story of how Arthur Pendragon became the lord of war.

#22 - Episode 3

Arthur & George - Season 1 - Episode 3

Determined to prove his critics wrong and find out whether George has been hiding anything, Arthur attacks the case with renewed fervour, uncovering fresh evidence that suggests a very different explanation to the one found by the police. However, he and Woodie are led into further danger when it seems the Wyrley Ripper is still at large. On a mission that could expose corruption in the establishment, will Arthur be able to show the world that the young solicitor is innocent?

#23 - Death by a Thousand Hits (2)

Silent Witness - Season 27 - Episode 8

Nikki has a breakthrough and edges ever closer to the truth as they confront a key witness. Who can the team believe and, more importantly, who can they trust?

#24 - Tim

Rillington Place - Season 1 - Episode 2

When newlyweds Tim and Beryl move into 10 Rillington Place, they are befriended by their older neighbours the Christies. As time passes and their relationship hits a rough patch, Mr Christie's interest and influence over the couple takes a much more sinister turn.

#25 - Voids (1)

Silent Witness - Season 13 - Episode 3

Harry and Nikki find themselves on opposite sides of a high profile case

#26 - The First Day

Manhunt (2019) - Season 1 - Episode 1

On 19th August 2004, French student Amelie Delagrange is found on Twickenham Green with fatal head injuries. Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton of the Metropolitan Police is appointed as Senior Investigating Officer, tasked with leading the investigation.

#27 - Harbinger (2)

Waking the Dead - Season 9 - Episode 2

Boyd is convinced that the missing Donald is not a murderer, and pushes his team to try to make sense of all the vague connections in the case and eventually confront the unfathomable evil lurking within the heart of this sad, unfortunate family.

#28 - Episode 1

Arthur & George - Season 1 - Episode 1

Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, recaptures his zest for life by pursuing and challenging a notorious miscarriage of justice...

#29 - Cold Fusion (1)

Waking the Dead - Season 5 - Episode 11

As DNA evidence from an old case of Spencer's (while he was working for the Atomic Energy Constabulary) is re-examined it appears that the wrong man was sent to jail. Someone tries to coverup the new evidence, causing all eyes to turn to Spencer.

#30 - Death by a Thousand Hits (1)

Silent Witness - Season 27 - Episode 7

The team investigate the death of a Burmese man on a deserted beach, whose young pregnant wife desperately hopes is still alive. Nikki and Jack piece together the perplexing crime scene and find it poses more questions than it answers.

#31 - Episode 3

The Winter King - Season 1 - Episode 3

Arthur takes Gundleus prisoner, and Nimue begins to plan her revenge; Arthur learns that Gundleus' uncle Gorfydd is preparing for war.

#32 - Running on Empty (1)

Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 5

Alice Delaney plunges to her death from a roof terrace in her work building. Sam, Leo and Harry are called to the case. The police believe that she killed herself, but Sam isn't convinced that is correct, and sets out to find her killer.

#33 - Harbinger (1)

Waking the Dead - Season 9 - Episode 1

Boyd has to break in a new team member of equal rank, Detective Superintendent Sarah Cavendish, a high-flyer recently grounded by a hushed-up failed operation.After the empty and abandoned car of banker Donald Rees is discovered threee years after he went missing, Boyd decides to take on the case in an effort help the man's family find some closure with their lives.

#34 - Cold Fusion (2)

Waking the Dead - Season 5 - Episode 12

#35 - Episode 2

Arthur & George - Season 1 - Episode 2

Woodie suspects that George is after all the Wyrley Ripper, but Arthur is not convinced and annoys the police. Then the local blacksmith is found dead.

#36 - Ethel

Rillington Place - Season 1 - Episode 1

After a long separation, Ethel and her husband John Reginald Christie set up home in 10 Rillington Place, but Ethel soon wonders whether she has made the right decision. As war breaks out, the fractures in their relationship begin to reappear, with deceit, suspicion and violence never far below the veneer of married respectability.

#37 - Fugue States (2)

Waking the Dead - Season 4 - Episode 6

The team try track Jason as they work out how the twins were taken and why. They link the twins disapperance to a Dr Roper, who knocked Jason down. They unravel his past and find out some dark secrets. The squad work out who Cindy is now and try find her before its too late

#38 - Episode 2

The Winter King - Season 1 - Episode 2

An untimely death leads Merlin to locate Arthur and urge him to come back to Britain; chaos ensues when Gundleus assaults Avalon.

#39 - Fear (1)

Silent Witness - Season 15 - Episode 9

One of Delaney’s patients, Eve Gilston, is discovered dead in her bed. The coroner’s verdict is sudden arrhythmic death syndrome but Delaney is not convinced and gets Leo to investigate. Suspicion soon falls on Eve’s dad Anthony, who lost the family fortune, and his wife Beth.

#40 - Moment of Surrender (2)

Silent Witness - Season 21 - Episode 2

Nikki's suspicions about David Cannon are roused further when she discovers blood in the boot of his car an with Thomas's support she takes samples to process. Does it belong to Sally Vaughn? Meanwhile, the uncovering of the body from the 16-year-old murder shines the spotlight on three people who went to the same school. Emilia Fox stars, with Julian Rhind-Tutt and Alex Macqueen.

#41 - Voids (2)

Silent Witness - Season 13 - Episode 4

A revelation emerges that Flannery's first wife also died of a stair fall.

#42 - Running on Empty (2)

Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 6

#43 - Fear (2)

Silent Witness - Season 15 - Episode 10

Leo is determined to learn the circumstances about the death of Eve Gilston. Nikki and Harry manage to find the nun who performed the exorcism but are surprised by what they find. Eve’s mother Beth Gilston is confronted by Leo and che omes close tod iscovering the truth about what actually happened the night before her daughter died.

#44 - Moment of Surrender (1)

Silent Witness - Season 21 - Episode 1

Nikki struggles to come to terms with life back home and seeks out fellow pathologist Sally Vaughan for support, only to learn she is nowhere to be found. National Crime Agency investigator Guy Bernhardt asks Nikki to help him by employing pathologist David Cannon, the chief suspect in Sally's disappearance. As Jack, Clarissa and Thomas share concerns about Nikki's wellbeing, a body found in a reservoir is linked to a murder case from 16 years previously. Return of the crime drama, starring Emilia Fox, with Julian Rhind-Tutt and Alex Macqueen.

#45 - Chelsea Girl

Identity - Season 1 - Episode 2

Immigration records show a woman entering the UK hours after she was murdered in Australia. DI Bloom realises that the impostor is working out unresolved childhood issues, and that she may pose a threat to her father and his fiancée. DS Wareing is unsettled by Bloom's cavalier approach.

#46 - Episode 1

The Winter King - Season 1 - Episode 1

High King Uther banishes his son Arthur, who rescues a dying boy named Derfel. Arthur entrusts Derfel to Merlin and Nimue. Years later, Uther has a new heir, but Merlin has a dark vision for the future.

#47 - Pariah

Identity - Season 1 - Episode 3

The Identity Unit must protect a woman when her true identity as the wife of a convicted child murderer is exposed. DI Bloom abandons the safe house when his lover, Adile, asks for his help, and the woman's son is kidnapped, forcing the Identity Unit to find a way of meeting the ransom demand.

#48 - Thin Air (2)

Waking the Dead - Season 2 - Episode 8

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.

#49 - Multistorey (1)

Waking the Dead - Season 3 - Episode 1

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.

#50 - Subterraneans (1)

Waking the Dead - Season 5 - Episode 5

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...