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Waking the Dead : Season 8
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Air date: 06 Sep '09 - 8 episodesWaking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and there have been a total of nine series since. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One. A third series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004. The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to allow for advertising breaks, as well as UKTV in Australia and New Zealand and ABC1 in Australia. The show aired its final episode on 11 April 2011. A spin-off from the series, titled The Body Farm, revolving around forensic scientist Eve Lockhart, was announced by the BBC in January 2011 and ran for just one series.
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List of Episodes (8)
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Waking the Dead (2000)
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1. Magdalene 26 (1)
06 Sep '09After a women running naked along a country way is picked up there are two cases to solve. The first one is to find out how she got there, a complicated task because she suffers from memory loss. The second case goes back quite some years as her DNA was found in a strange cold case with two bodies and a sword.
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Waking the Dead (2000)
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2. Magdalene 26 (2)
07 Sep '09After the shooting in the hospital in which Stella is wounded the involvement of the priest becomes clear. With the shooter killed there is no chance for interrogation, but his body provides a useful clue linking back to the cold case. In the meantime things become even more complicated when a women turns up who looks a lot like the one in the hospital.
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Waking the Dead (2000)
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3. End Of The Night (1)
13 Sep '09The failed suicide of a women called Gemma who has been raped 12 years ago, when she was just a girl by two men, causes Boyd and his team to re-open the investigation. But as the previous investigation went nowhere there aren't any leads left to start from.
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Waking the Dead (2000)
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4. End Of The Night (2)
14 Sep '09Eventually new forensic evidence leads Boyd and the team to one of the rapists of Gemma. Now the hunt is on for his partner, which becomes as race against time as Gemma might have own ideas on justice.
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Waking the Dead (2000)
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5. Substitute (1)
20 Sep '09When Eve's new boyfriend Stefan is being vague about his past she puts her skills to use and uncovers something she rather wouldn't have. Unsure about the next step she turns to Boyd for advice, initially he promises support. But once the facts become clearer Boyd and Eve want to follow a different path.
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Waking the Dead (2000)
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6. Substitute (2)
21 Sep '09Eve's trust in her boyfriend proves unfounded as he turns out to be worst then even Boyd expected. Fortunately she is able to escape from the location where she is being held, but Stefan isn't going to let her go that easily.
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Waking the Dead (2000)
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7. Endgame (1)
27 Sep '09An old adversary of Boyd's asks him to investigate two deaths at her psychiatric hospital.
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Waking the Dead (2000)
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8. Endgame (2)
28 Sep '09Boyd and his team uncover the awful truth behind the walls of the psychiatric hospital.
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