Name: Waking the Dead
Released: 2000-09-04T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Trevor Eve, Holly Aird, Sue Johnston

TV Show · Drama · Crime

The Cold Case team is a crack squad of police investigators who reopen unsolved murder cases, using new technology to re-examine evidence that hopefully will lead to the killer. They are at the cutting edge of modern police investigation, but they have been given just one year to prove their worth.

2000 · 51m

Starring Trevor Eve, Holly Aird, Sue Johnston

Director Andy Hay, Edward Bennett

EPISODE 3

Burn Out, Part 1

When Detective Superintendent Boyd encounters a woman unable to accept the explanation of her father's death, he takes on the case.
EPISODE 4

Burn Out, Part 2

A newly discovered note seems to set the seal on a suicide verdict, but when Boyd and the team exhume Perry Coleman's body, DNA tests reveal some disturbing facts.
EPISODE 5

The Blind Beggar, Part 1

When a skeleton is discovered in a Church crypt Boyd and his team suspect it was never meant to be found. The team interview the local community and awaken deeply hidden family secrets that force Boyd to look at his own past.
EPISODE 6

The Blind Beggar, Part 2

Frankie learns that the skeleton and a priest may be related as both show symptoms of Huntington's Chorea. The hunt is on for the killer and the victim's mother. Meanwhile, the investigation opens old wounds for Boyd, still in despair over the disappearance of his own son.
EPISODE 7

A Simple Sacrifice, Part 1

The Cold Case Squad are called in when new evidence emerges in the case of a woman who was convicted of double murder on the basis of her own confession 25 years ago.
EPISODE 8

A Simple Sacrifice, Part 2

Boyd and the team continue their investigation of the Annie Kee case, and try to locate her son who was present during the murders.