The BEST episodes written by Jim Keeble

#1 - Sleepyhead (2)

Thorne - Season 1 - Episode 2

Following the attack on Thorne, the hunt for the killer intensifies. Tension between Thorne and Tughan threatens to expose a dark secret too.

#2 - Sleepyhead (3)

Thorne - Season 1 - Episode 3

The first adaptation of Mark Billingham's bestselling detective series reaches its heart-pounding conclusion as Thorne's hunt for the killer turns into a race against the clock

#3 - Scaredy Cat (3)

Thorne - Season 1 - Episode 6

Martin Palmer escapes police custody during a car crash, and, reunited with fellow killer Stuart Nicklin the pair continue their murderous spree. Thorne orders Chen off the case when he learns of her drug problem, but desperate to make amends, she decides to track the pair alone.

#4 - Scaredy Cat (1)

Thorne - Season 1 - Episode 4

In a twisted plot, DI Tom Thorne investigates a pair of macabre murders.

#5 - Bloodlines (2)

Silent Witness - Season 14 - Episode 8

Nikki makes her way to Budapest but there's not much she or Leo can do as every move they make is being watched by Tibor Orban. Leo manages to secretly meet Nikki where he reveals that Harry is still alive. Harry explains why he had to fake his own death and continues that he must find out why Anna was killed and unravel the dark secret of the prostitution racket.

#6 - Scaredy Cat (2)

Thorne - Season 1 - Episode 5

DS Chen and Holland discover the body of a man in a disused sewer tunnel only moments after an identical murder in North London. Upon further investigation it appears that the victim is an ex police officer which leads Thorne to believe that this may be personal.

#7 - Bloodlines (1)

Silent Witness - Season 14 - Episode 7

Harry is reunited with Anna Sandor when she calls him to Budapest to perform a second post-mortem on the body of a drowned prostitute, Sofi Mustafova. As they get reacquainted, Anna tells him she believes the death is suspicious and may be linked to her own investigations into the disappearance of other pregnant prostitutes. The women's body ends up being cremated before Harry can take a look at it. Harry's world is crushed when he finds out that Anna has been stabbed to death in her bed. He is forced to go underground where he manages to make a desperate call to Leo in London for help when he becomes the number one suspect. Harry continues with the investigation into the gang-run prostitution racket. When Leo shows up late for the meeting with Harry he witnesses a man being shot and burned. When he manages to retrieve a charred passport from the body it turns out to be Harry's.

#8 - And Then I Fell in Love (2)

Silent Witness - Season 15 - Episode 12

Harry and Nikki make a crucial connection between the dead girls and sex-grooming victim Shannon, but is it too late for Hannah and Lauren?

#9 - Sleepyhead (1)

Thorne - Season 1 - Episode 1

DI Tom Thorne begins the hunt for a killer who wants to 'lock-in' his victims.

#10 - Shadows (2)

Silent Witness - Season 13 - Episode 8

#11 - Shadows (1)

Silent Witness - Season 13 - Episode 7

Nikki and Harry try to help wounded victims of a campus shooting while trapped in the building with the rampaging shoote

#12 - Nothing Behind the Curtain

Wild Bill - Season 1 - Episode 6

On his way home from work, Bill finds five charred bodies atop a bonfire on the roadside, close to a local farm. Pathology reveals that all five victims had been shot through the head with a nail, although this was not the cause of death. Raking through cases with a similar MO, Bill uncovers a series of murders committed by Frank McGill (Patrick Bergin), a former hitman who has been in witness protection since 1997, having turned Queen's evidence on his former gangland boss.

#13 - The Lost Child (2)

Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 10

Nikki's loyalty towards her former mentor, Noel Hopkins, is severely tested when past allegations of sexual misconduct from a former student surface. Leo and Harry refuse to give up their search for Liam, as they try to identify and locate a toxic chemical which was found in both bodies. If they can find the source of the chemical, they may find where Liam is being held.

#14 - Effective Range (1)

Silent Witness - Season 27 - Episode 1

A new murder victim forces the team to consider whether a notorious serial killer has resurfaced after 20 years, or if they are dealing with a copycat.

#15 - Effective Range (2)

Silent Witness - Season 27 - Episode 2

When a woman’s body is removed from a reservoir, Nikki performs the post-mortem and confirms she is the deceased wife of pathologist Charles Beck. Jack and Velvy discover new evidence that leads to a surprising arrest as Nikki continues to seek the truth about notorious serial killer Calvin Dunn.

#16 - The Penitent (2)

Silent Witness - Season 26 - Episode 2

Nikki becomes even more involved with the Ndrangheta mafia-group and Jack uncovers some disturbing leads. An unlikely alliance leads Nikki closer to the truth, but not without some collateral damage.

#17 - Piano Man

Wild Bill - Season 1 - Episode 2

'Piano Man', (Craig Parkinson), an amnesiac arrested after an altercation at a local train station, is implicated in series of unsolved armed robberies committed by an offender known only as the 'Boston Bandit'. Although CID are keen to wrap the case up, Bill suspects that 'Piano Man' may have been framed and sets about discovering the truth. Lydia comes under fire when a personal connection to one of the victims in the case is uncovered.

#18 - Star (2)

Silent Witness - Season 26 - Episode 6

The investigation continues to take unexpected turns, with Nikki managing to get behind the mask of the lead suspect. Jack has a breakthrough at the festival site and Nikki takes a dangerous opportunity. A surprise event at the Lyell brings some hope.

#19 - The Lost Child (1)

Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 9

When the half-naked body of a 12-year-old is discovered floating in a drainage ditch near his school, the team is called in, bringing Nikki back in contact with one of her former teachers, Noel Hopkins, now headmaster. During Harry's preliminary examination they find clear signs of abuse, and when the police discover the victim was last seen with another boy, Liam, who has also gone missing, they fear he may have been abducted. Liam is still out there, the hope is that he is still alive, and the team, under increasing pressure from the police, must find clues from the dead boy's body in order to save the living.

#20 - The Penitent (1)

Silent Witness - Season 26 - Episode 1

When a man plummets from a high-rise building, the Lyell team cross paths with the NCA and a notorious mafia group, pushing Nikki to make a tough decision.

#21 - Welcome to Boston

Wild Bill - Season 1 - Episode 1

Bill Hixon arrives in Boston to take up the position of Chief Constable with East Lincolnshire police – but his first day is far from routine when the head of a teenage girl who disappeared several years previously is found in the freezer of a local nut job. Bill seizes the chance to take on one of the force's most notorious unsolved cases, and befriends the girl's mother, Angie (Susan Lynch), as the investigation into her death gets underway.

#22 - Star (1)

Silent Witness - Season 26 - Episode 5

The Lyell team are thrown into the dark side of social media, where nothing is as it seems, and the perfect profiles of the influencers they are investigating raise disturbing questions. As a heavily pregnant DI asks the team for their expertise, are they running out of time to solve this case?

#23 - And Then I Fell in Love (1)

Silent Witness - Season 15 - Episode 11

Nikki stumbles across a sinister underworld where teenage girls are groomed for sex and forced into prostitution.