Leo comes under suspicion for fraud when an insurance investigator accuses him of falsifying a post-mortem report and Harry falls for the charms of an attractive former colleague.

Episode 2 Intent Part 2

Harry puts his professional career on the line to prove his lover’s innocence after Leo is attacked and Levin turns up dead.

Episode 3 Voids Part 1

Harry & Nikki try to remain professional when they find themselves at opposite sides of a high profile case, but it’s not easy as they are both brilliant at what they do, and they soon show that every piece of evidence can be interpreted at least two ways.

Episode 4 Voids Part 2

The revelation that Flannery’s first wife also died of a stair lift fall sends Harry to Prague to seek evidence to prove the man’s guilt. However, Nikki’s determination to look beyond the police’s blinkered investigation leads to further tragedy.

Episode 5 Run Part 1

Leo is concerned that the police are involved with a cover-up to protect a rogue undercover cop linked to the death of a young woman.

Episode 6 Run Part 2

With Danielle missing and her lover on the run, Leo and the police struggle to unravel a complex web of deceit.

Episode 7 Shadows Part 1

There is a student suicide on the university campus where the Lyell Centre is situated, in the first of a new two-part episode of the forensic science drama. As a senior member of the University Board, Leo liaises with the Dean and investigating officer DC Saich after it emerges the deceased, Jason Renfrew, was the victim of bullying.

Episode 8 Shadows Part 2

As the wounded and dead are wheeled out, Harry stays to help the paramedic attending to Weston as the two-part drama concludes. Unable to do any more to help, Nikki returns to the Lyell Centre but she is not alone. In the deserted offices of the mortuary is student Neil, who locks the doors behind him as he enters the lab.

Episode 9 Home Part 1

Nikki returns to her childhood home of Cape Town when she is hired as a consultant forensic anthropologist by a private investigations firm, in the first of a new two-part episode of the forensic science drama.

Episode 10 Home Part 2

Harry and Sarah examine two more girls' bodies in the last of the current series of the forensic science drama. They discover traces of the same drug as previously found in the body at Hout Bay, suggesting that all three deaths are linked.

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Silent Witness Episode Guide Series 13

Photograph of Emilia Fox who plays Dr Nikki Alexander in BBC’s Silent Witness

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