Waking the Dead: Season 3

Get a first-hand look at why the third season of this stylish contemporary drama earned an International Emmy® Award. Follow the Cold Case Squad as they reinvestigate old crimes using the latest techniques and technology in modern detective work. Led by eccentric, workaholic Detective Chief Inspector Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve, David Copperfield), this crack team of detectives, psychological profilers and forensic experts are the best minds in their field, dedicated to their jobs and committed to finding the truth-no matter the cost. From revenge and serial murders to family secrets, there's no telling the danger when they're Waking the Dead.

The Cold Case Squad reinvestigates old crimes using the latest techniques and technology in modern detective work. Detective Chief Inspector Peter Boyd, psychological profiler Dr Grace Foley, forensic scientist Dr Frankie Wharton, and detectives Amelia (Mel) Silver and Spencer
Jordan are the best minds in their field, dedicated to their jobs and each in their own way committed to getting to the truth at all costs. This stylish contemporary drama returns with a new set of challenges facing the team. The increasing likelihood of a mystery second man involved in a highstreet massacre. A family murder with vital evidence to be recovered from the bottom of the sea. A victim of child abuse seeking revenge for the death of his twin. And a cult film tied to the discovery of four bodies in a Notting Hill house, 1960s gangsterland and the background history of one of the team. But digging up the past can be dangerous. The killer might strike again...

Episodes One and Two: Multistorey - Carl Mackenzie, the man jailed for a high-street shooting spree, has always maintained his innocence. Now he has won the right to an appeal, based on the shoddy investigation that fed the prosecution's original case. Carl has always claimed that another man kidnapped him and then carried out the massacre, only to disappear when the tactical firearms unit closed the net. For Boyd, reopening the case means reopening a personal wound - his close friend and colleague, Nick Patterson, was one of the victims. But when the sole eye-witness withdraws his testimony and the mystery second man is discovered, it looks like Carl might be right after all.

Episodes Three and Four: Walking on Water - Frankie's DNA evidence clears a convicted murderer of killing his adoptive father and family. With no new leads, the police who brought the original prosecution aren't looking for anyone else to shoulder the crime. But Boyd has a hunch about where he can find some new evidence. It involves finding the rest of the family, whose bodies were never found, but who were believed to have sunk along with the family boat. Once located, the team hopes that the submerged coffin will offer clues as to the true identity of the murderer - be it the adopted son or someone else from his fishing village.

Episodes Five and Six: Breaking Glass - A recovered memory therapist causes her disturbed client, Terry Tanner to recall the sexual abuse he received at the hands of a care services pedophile in an orphanage. With the help of a similarly disturbed and abused fellow inmate, Terry sets out to find his abuser and seek revenge - both for his abuse and the death of his twin, Jonathan.

Episodes Seven and Eight: Final Cut - The discovery of four bodies in the walls and floors of a Notting Hill house has the team reinvestigating a 60s gangster landscape which is inextricably entwined with the background history of one of the team. A cult film from the era is restored to its director's original cut and mirrors the events that lead to two of the bodies ending up in the floor but not to the identity of the killer. Boyd realises they are being led by their noses to the truth of the matter, but by whom and to what end?

Series Devised by Barbara Machin
Written by Stephen Davis, Ed Whitmore
Produced by Richard Burrell
Directed by David Thacker, Andy Hay, Robert Bierman, Betsan Morris Evans
Executive Produced by Alexei de Keyser

Guest Cast

Multistorey

Walking on Water

Breaking Glass

Final Cut

"Waking the Dead is a class act.The characters are strong, money and imagination are lavished on each episode, and Trevor Eve is incapable of delivering a dull performance." The Times

"Waking the Dead makes the competition look slack and slapdash." Guardian

"Det Supt Adam Boyd and his charismatic crew of ‘cold case' investigators make up one of the most appealing cop show packages around, displaying all the high-tech glamour, moody camerawork and acting quality of Spooks but with the distinct advantage of comparatively credible storylines and characters ... it never pushed credibility to breakingpoint and it was done with terrific pace and panache." Daily Telegraph

"Fans of Waking The Dead (now entering its third series and quite right, too) will be all too familiar with the Detective Superintendent's odd ways. His mood swings, his long periods of silent contemplation, his sudden and unexplained spurts of activity - they are just some of the traits that give this television detective his distinctive colour and appeal ... For me, he is easily the most interesting policeman on television. His job throws up some of the most intriguing cases. And Trevor Eve's performance as the detective is one of the most watchable - inside the force or out." Daily Mail

"Most watchable ... concentrate on some lovely ensemble acting, a slow-burning plot stretched over two luxurious episodes, and the strong possibility that you may guess the identity of the killer before they do." London Evening Standard

"Some are born to lead; few to smoulder; fewer still to simmer. As Detective Superintendent Boyd,Trevor Eve ... simmers all over this two-part forensic drama like a cauldron of sensible soup." Guardian

"Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston and Holly Aird bring quality to the show." Sunday Times