The BEST episodes written by Stuart Hepburn

Dead Souls
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8.17
90 votes

#1 - Dead Souls

Rebus - Season 1 - Episode 3

Rebus is confronted with baffling questions of paedophiles, child abuse, missing persons, a former sweetheart, firebombs, mobs, a gay cross-dresser, and all amid the personal loss of an excellent friend and co-officer, to what? Suicide? Or murder? Detective Inspector John Rebus has his plate filled, again, with the evils of human misdeeds and personal trials. His emotions are drawn like a tightrope over the death of a man he most admired and respected, counterbalanced by the arrival on the scene of old friends seeking his assistance in finding their missing adolescent son. The old sparks catch fire with the woman he loved 20 years before, but he manages to keep all of the pressures of his work sorted out and resolves the multitude of issues facing him. But where will his reclaimed love leave him?

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Episode Three
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7.96
25 votes

#2 - Episode Three

Monarch of the Glen - Season 2 - Episode 3

While Hector has to go to an old flame for help with a rejected grant application, Golly and Fergal are locking horns in a power struggle over the estate. Poor Duncan finds himself stuck in the middle again as the two mean battle for his loyalty.

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In Search of a Rose
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7.96
45 votes

#3 - In Search of a Rose

Hamish Macbeth - Season 2 - Episode 2

Whale-spotting trips and the disappearance of a local seafarer involve Hamish in a murky underwater investigation.

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Ring of Deceit
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7.75
8 votes

#4 - Ring of Deceit

Taggart - Season 8 - Episode 2

A research scientist is murdered by an unknown assailant but it soon becomes clear that she is another victim of a serial rapist - 'The Mechanic'.

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More Than a Game
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7.72
36 votes

#5 - More Than a Game

Hamish Macbeth - Season 3 - Episode 6

Lochdubh prepares for tile annual shinty match against Dunbracken with a ruthless Lachlan coaching the village team. Last year was Dunbracken's nineteenth win in a row; a twentieth will award them the trophy forever and there's high tension in the air. The Lochdubh players are amazed when star goalie Lachie Junior walks out on the team, then Lachlan turns into a love-sick Romeo besotted with a voluptuous, leather-clad female biker. Hamish however suspects that all is not what it seems, and the villagers hatch a plot to overcome foul play at the match.

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Double Exposure
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7.50
2 votes

#6 - Double Exposure

Taggart - Season 7 - Episode 3

Racial violence or something more sinister? The Taggart team are baffled by murders with no connection other than a possible racial link. Or is it something not so obvious to the all seeing eye?

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Secrets
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7.50
2 votes

#7 - Secrets

Taggart - Season 10 - Episode 3

Cameron Friel arrives in Glasgow to attend a literary award hosted by Prof Maggi McLeish. At the ceremony, Friel receives a bullet in an envelope, and Taggart investigates who the sender might be. Meanwhile, Jake Koslewski returns from a charity mission to Romania to discover his wife, an alcohol counselor, has left him for George Proctor, a previous client.

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Rogues' Gallery
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7.50
2 votes

#8 - Rogues' Gallery

Taggart - Season 6 - Episode 3

When a body is found in the boot of a car being crushed in a scrap metal yard, DCI Taggart and DS Jardine are called to investigate. The grisly details are repeated shortly after when a second body is found in the same scrapyard. Taggart and Jardine investigate a link between drugs and the art world.

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Black and Blue
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7.46
112 votes

#9 - Black and Blue

Rebus - Season 1 - Episode 1

The first of the REBUS programmes introduces the Scottish Detective Inspector John Rebus as he untangles the various strands of the interwoven web of criminal intrigues from Leith, Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Glasgow and points between. A serial killer of young women of the past, known as 'The Preacher' appears to have a copycat murderer dubbed 'The Disciple', who is repeating the modus operandi. But is it 'The Preacher' who has returned to continue his work of death? Or it is truly another serial killer at work? Intermingled with the workings of the CID Edinburgh to solve these problems, Rebus is pulled off the case to pursue a strange death of what appears to be unintentional suicide. This strand of the web takes Rebus through more suicides, murders, drug trafficking, money laundering, exposure of dirty cops and questionable liasons between a couple of the suspects. The stressed out Rebus manages to reach the center of the web and skillfully gets the tangles sorted out in this fast

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The Trouble with Rory
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7.11
37 votes

#10 - The Trouble with Rory

Hamish Macbeth - Season 3 - Episode 5

When fire destroys part of Lochdubh Primary School, Esme is horrified to learn not only that the council intends closing the school for good, but that her lover Rory Campbell has been party to their plans all along. Strong passions are aroused by Esme's ensueing media campaign and with Isobel returning as a TV reporter, Hamish battles to keep the peace. He forms a surveillance unit to track down a suspected arsonist; but there is another mystery in Lochdubh - what is the trouble with Rory?.

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