Waking The Dead – Magdalene 26

BBC ONE

DSI Boyd leads the Met’s Cold Case Unit as BBC One’s popular International Emmy Award-winning drama, starring Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara FitzGerald, Wil Johnson and Félicité du Jeu, returns for its eighth series to investigate more unsolved crimes.

Grace, Eve, Spence and Stella are back as Boyd’s Cold Case team and use advanced forensic science, psychological profiling and insightful police investigation to continue their quest to uncover the truth in previously unsolved cases.

In the emotive opening episode of this two-part drama, a visibly distressed, unidentified woman is discovered fleeing from a car accident. Naked and disoriented she is found by PC Katrina Howard, who takes her to hospital.

Boyd takes on the case after tests reveal the mystery woman’s DNA is linked to a double murder in a Soho club in 1967.

The team identify her as successful business entrepreneur Elizabeth Andrews, who has suffered an horrific attack at the hands of her abductors. Boyd and Eve’s investigations lead them to Andrews’s home, where they discover what they believe to be Elizabeth’s husband hanging dead in the hallway.

With a new murder as well as the cold case to solve, the team sets to work to discover how the two are connected.

As Elizabeth recovers in hospital – guarded by Stella – her abductor returns to finish the job and, in the ensuing fight, he is shot dead. Tragically, he is not the only one to take a bullet…

Trevor Eve plays Boyd, Sue Johnston plays Grace, Tara FitzGerald plays Eve, Wil Johnson plays Spencer, Félicité du Jeu plays Stella and Stacey Roca plays PC Katrina Howard. Tonight’s episode also stars Sharon Maughan as Elizabeth Andrews.