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Touching Evil : Season 1
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Air date: 12 Mar '04 - 13 episodesTouching Evil is a British television drama serial, which began airing in 1997. It was produced by United Productions for Anglia Television, and screened on the ITV network. The first series consists of six fifty-minute episodes. It was created by Paul Abbott, and written by Abbott with Russell T Davies. The serial was very popular, and led to two sequel serials in 1998 and 1999, although these were not written by Abbott or Davies. The star is popular actor Robson Green, playing a police officer, DCI Dave Creegan, whose injuries after a shooting leaves him with strange abilities to sense criminals. Touching Evil III was co-produced by Green's own independent production company, Coastal Productions. Green's co-star was Nicola Walker, playing Creegan's colleague DI Susan Taylor.
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List of Episodes (13)
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1. Pilot (1)
12 Mar '04Before slaying and scalping his victim (always a young woman) a spooky serial killer e-mails his intentions to tabloid reporter David Laney. With Laney's help, the OSC lays a trap, and D.C. Rivers witnesses an abduction in progress. Trailing the killer to an abandoned shack, Rivers is joined by Creegan who confronts the psychopath, poised to slit the throat of his next victim.
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2. Pilot (2)
12 Mar '04Though serial killer Emerson is behind bars, his murder spree somehow continues. Is it a copycat killer or an accomplice? Creegan, Taylor, and Rivers must turn to Emerson himself for help, and he names a trivial but bone-chilling price. Unwittingly, Taylor's new love affair with reporter David Laney is lining her up as the next victim.
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3. Y Me
19 Mar '04Lovingly washed, white-shrouded corpses are turning up across Europe, each with a neat hole in the skull. When the homicides hit Britain, the OSC gets the case, and learns the victims all knew each other in Bosnia, where they worked for a relief agency. He also catches a glimpse of the probable killer captured on a security camera. A man everyone thought was dead.
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4. Justine
26 Mar '04Serial killer Jim Keller has given police the slip and is widening his scope of victims to include anyone who gets in his way. Eager to prove himself after past mistakes, Rivers throws himself into the investigation and into the killer's line of fire.
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5. Slash 30
02 Apr '04Annie Jordan kidnaps the child she says was coerced from her in a baby-brokering scheme. Suspecting links to an international pedophile ring, Taylor and Rivers pose as a childless couple in a sting to nab the ringleaders. Meanwhile, Creegan is becoming smitten with Annie.
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6. Memorial
16 Apr '04While tracking an international pedophile ring, Creegan finds his own children targeted in a revenge attack by a distraught father who blames Creegan for his daughter's death. Meanwhile, Taylor goes undercover to a kid-for-sale orphanage in Albania, risking her job when she returns with a little girl. As the drama reaches its climax, Creegan's affair with Annie Jordan comes to a tragic end.
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7. K
23 Apr '04Creegan and Branca investigate a case of horse mutilation and track down a quartet of youngsters addicted to a type of veterinary medication known as K.
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8. Love Lies Bleeding
30 Apr '04A serial killer is released on parole and wastes no time in striking again, leaving the latest victim's father grief-stricken and vengeful, which prompts Creegan to consider the safety of his own family.
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9. Attachment
10 May '04Branca uses her linguistic skills to infiltrate a Ukrainian baby-smuggling ring, while the rest of the team tries to solve a string of murders committed by a shadowy contract killer known only as the Morning Person.
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10. Boston
17 May '04The OSC unit heads for Creegan's native Boston to help local officers find a serial killer who seems to be selecting his victims on the basis of their religious faith. Father Bob Di Fabian claims to have been nearly killed by the man while taking his confession, but Branca does not believe the priest because of her past experiences with Catholicism.
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11. Entropy
24 May '04Creegan's friend Cyril is arrested on suspicion of being involved in a spate of fatal knife attacks on smartly dressed men, but a lack of evidence hampers the investigation - until an eyewitness account places him at the scene of one stabbing.
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12. Grief
07 Jun '04Creegan makes a decision about his family. Rivers suffers a personal loss, and the team visits Washington to search for a killer who cuts out women's hearts and leaves them for their husbands or boyfriends to find.
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13. Mercy
14 Jun '04The San Francisco team investigates the mysterious deaths of patients in intensive care, who were being treated by a doctor known to be sympathetic to mercy killing.
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