BBC's Waking The Dead - Episode Guide Series 9

In this series the team acquires a new member, brilliant ex-counter-terrorism officer Sarah Cavendish (Eva Birthistle) but Sarah’s symptoms of post-traumatic stress become increasingly apparent.

Episode 1 - Harbinger Part 1

After the empty and abandoned car of banker Donald Rees is discovered three 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.

Episode 2 - Harbinger Part 2

Boyd starts to think he has come to know the missing man and he believes that that Donald Rees is not a murderer. He ends up getting the team to investigate harder at all the different possibilities.

Episode 3 - Care Part 1

After a woman is discovered stabbed in the eyes and incinerated in her car she is identified as Claire Somers, a neglected child who was taken into care, then later kidnapped in 1986 at the age of seven. Robert Fenchurch had his eyes stabbed out on the night Claire was kidnapped as her abductor fled the scene. The team soon find out that Claire had snatched 15-year-old Abigail Harding, who was found locked in a hotel room. Abigail tells the team what she can remember.

Episode 4 - Care Part 2

The team work out that Teresa was running from someone or something in her room and would rather have taken her own life than face up to it. Peter Broading's psych report ends up giving an important clue. Boyd manages to break Broading and he ends up admitting that he was part of Fenchurch's regime. He then reveals that David Drew, a boy of just nine years old was in charge of the violence that went on.

Episode 5 - Solidarity Part 1

The Cold Case team are called to a chamber of a little-known subterranean river. The corpse of notorious Falklands' veteran-turned-peace activist Piers Kennedy – missing since 1983 and rumoured by conspiracy theorists to have been killed by the state – has been found ... directly under the Ministry of Defence.

Episode 6 - Solidarity Part 2

Grace admits to the team the full extent of her relationship with Murray. However, she insists Murray was actually relieved that the PR stunt by CANW didn't make the news. The team surmise that MI5 deliberately hushed up this embarrassing incident.

Episode 7 - Conviction Part 1

Karl Barclay, a medical student missing for six years, comes to the attention of the Cold Case team when his DNA matches that of a corpse also found six years ago in Hales reservoir. As Eve discovers signs of torture on the corpse, Boyd wants to know why the case hadn't rung alarm bells earlier, and becomes increasingly suspicious that there has been a cover up.

Episode 8 - Conviction Part 2

The Cold Case Squad consider Karl as a would-be bomber who, backing out of a planned atrocity, was killed by his fellow extremists, as the latest story in the crime drama concludes. However, key forensics indicates that Karl fell to his death from an airplane, pointing to an unpalatable possibility – state murder and cover up.

Episode 9 - Waterloo Part 1

Boyd is informed he will be moved out of the Cold Case Unit. As his last case, he chooses to re-investigate the first case he worked on: the disappearance of 16 homeless teenage boys between 1979 and 1982. The boys were taken at precise three-month intervals, suggesting their disappearance was the work of a sociopath.

Episode 10 - Waterloo Part 2

Boyd returns to the torture chamber to find Nicholson is already there – grimly accepting that he indeed let the killer go all those years ago. Nicholson thinks Jason Heath is the culprit, but Grace is not convinced. As the investigation continues, Sarah has gone astray and the team are forced to report her missing.

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Waking The Dead Episode Guide Series 9

Starring Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson and Eva Birthistle.

Photograph of Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Trevor Eve, Tara Fitzgerald and Eva Birthistle in character for BBC's police series Waking The Dead