The BEST episodes written by Michael Crompton
#1 - Episode 2
Code of a Killer - Season 1 - Episode 2
With plenty of publicity, the local teenager is released and the world is introduced to DNA fingerprinting for the first time. In the villages of Narborough and Enderby there is a complete sense of fear that a murderer is living amongst them.
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#2 - Episode 1
Code of a Killer - Season 1 - Episode 1
In 1983, in a small village outside Leicester, 15-year-old Lynda Mann is found by a footpath, raped and strangled to death. A year on, after an exhaustive but fruitless search for the killer, Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker is forced to scale down the investigation. Meanwhile, just a few miles up the road at the University of Leicester, scientist Dr Alec Jeffreys invents a remarkable technique to read DNA – the unique genetic fingerprint of every individual – something never previously achieved despite decades of research across the globe. Summer 1986, and 15-year-old Dawn Ashworth goes missing – last seen just a hundred yards from where Lynda's body was discovered. Dawn’s body is found two days later, she has been strangled and hidden in undergrowth near a footpath shortcut. Reading about Jeffreys’ work in a local paper, Baker approaches him at the university – perhaps the DNA test can prove the teenagers involvement in Lynda’s death?
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#3 - The Sins of the Father
New Tricks - Season 10 - Episode 3
Brian Lane knows his days at UCOS are numbered. Meanwhile the team investigate a 16-year-old murder of a young mum by her criminal husband that could be a miscarriage of justice. However Gerry Standing feels very strongly that the conviction should not be called into question.
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#4 - Double Dare (2)
Silent Witness - Season 11 - Episode 8
Nikki grows increasingly worried that a mistake she made on a case four years ago may have contributed to the murder of a young woman.
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#5 - Family (2)
Silent Witness - Season 21 - Episode 10
As the truth behind the McMorris family is revealed, the team is brought together by the conclusion of a shocking Christmas family tragedy. Reuniting with their respective families, Nikki finds her secret Santa gift is a visit from a loved one.
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#6 - Body 21 (2)
Silent Witness - Season 8 - Episode 8
Leo, Harry and Nikki step up their efforts to discover the truth behind the train crash but there are still many unanswered questions.
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#7 - The Prodigal (2)
Silent Witness - Season 14 - Episode 10
When the Van Burens' au pair commits suicide, the pathologists start to unravel the truth behind the embassy shootings, and a dark family secret is exposed.
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#8 - The Prodigal (1)
Silent Witness - Season 14 - Episode 9
After a major incident at the Dutch Embassy, Harry and Nikki are removed from the case when the Dutch decide to appoint their own pathologist.
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#9 - Finding Rachel (2)
Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 12
Nikki clashes with Zambian police as she investigates the death of a British medical student.
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#10 - Home (2)
Silent Witness - Season 13 - Episode 10
Nikki is forced to make some hard choices when she discovers that Anton has been less than honest with her.
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#11 - Double Dare (1)
Silent Witness - Season 11 - Episode 7
Nikki revisits an emotive case from the past when a girl she proved innocent of murder is herself murdered.
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#12 - Home (1)
Silent Witness - Season 13 - Episode 9
When a Zimbabwean asylum seeker is unfairly deported to South Africa, Leo needs to find a way to help her return to the UK.
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#13 - Beyond Guilt (1)
Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 7
The Home Office ask Sam and her team to examine a number of times of death as given by a highly respected and internationally renowned independent pathologist, Peter Sachs.
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#14 - Body 21 (1)
Silent Witness - Season 8 - Episode 7
Leo and his team are approached by a support group to help discover the truth behind a train crash.
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#15 - Finding Rachel (1)
Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 11
The team is asked to investigate the death of a British medical student in Zambia.
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#16 - First Casualty (1)
Silent Witness - Season 14 - Episode 5
As Nikki investigates the drowning of a young mother, Harry is called to an apparent suicide at a nearby army base; it soon starts to look like the cases may be linked.
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#17 - Terror (2)
Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 6
Nikki faces mounting police hostility to her investigation of the armed raid.
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#18 - First Casualty (2)
Silent Witness - Season 14 - Episode 6
Having established that Lieutenant Lockford was murdered, Leo makes a startling breakthrough, and the investigation begins to unmask a dark secret at Hillsdon Army Base.
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#19 - Extra Mile
Murphy's Law (2001) - Season 3 - Episode 4
After months spent trying to nail gangster Dave Callard, suddenly Murphy has a bigger fish to fry: a wealthy hotelier called George Garvey with a taste for ethnic art. Murphy bumps into someone to whom Garvey's son owes a lot of money and manages to get closer to Garvey. To forget the pressure during work he starts to drink. It looks like only Ellie can save him now.
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#20 - Heart of Darkness (1)
Silent Witness - Season 26 - Episode 7
Levelling-up leaders and environmental activists clash in a small town trying to look to the future. With a sabotaged train and a dead mayor, the activists become suspects.
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#21 - Fatal Error (2)
Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 4
Sam uncovers a crippling truth about her involvement in a 13-year-old case -did she help convict an innocent man?
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#22 - Fatal Error (1)
Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 3
Sam comes under scrutiny at an official inquiry into two prison deaths and an old case Sam worked on 13 years ago resurfaces.
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#23 - Family (1)
Silent Witness - Season 21 - Episode 9
It is Christmas morning and Nikki is awaiting a call from Matt who is back in the States. Instead, she receives a call to say that the team is needed: a family has been massacred at an enormous property owned by Andy McMorris, the CEO of a haulage company. Greeted by SIO DI Gibbs, Nikki is first on the scene whilst Clarissa is connected to the action via screens and microphones back at the Lyell. Having left his father to celebrate Christmas without him, Jack is just arriving to join them when a gunshot suddenly rings out. With Gibbs lying on the floor with a life-threatening injury, the team realise that the shooter might still be on the grounds. Are they also in danger?
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#24 - Heart of Darkness (2)
Silent Witness - Season 26 - Episode 8
The Lyell team return to the crime scene as another victim is in peril. Family ties are tested to their limits as they reveal the dark secrets that led to the tunnel collapse, and Jack is put in a difficult position when a blast from the past comes to visit.
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#25 - Beyond Guilt (2)
Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 8
Leo and Harry follow up their leads to discover an alarming truth. Are Sam and her team being used by the Home Office to drive out Peter Sachs in fear of a costly process?
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#26 - Terror (1)
Silent Witness - Season 12 - Episode 5
The team investigates an armed raid on a suspected terrorist cell in which two suspects and a police officer are killed.
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The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 99
Penny gets pulled over after being at the pub. He thinks it is a wind-up. The officers are from Barton Street.