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Joe Donovan returns from a breakdown to lead Manchester's Forensic Investigations Unit. When his first murder case suspiciously resembles the one that drove him into near madness years ago, he must use science to snare a killer-and save himself.

2004 · 1h 12m
Starring Tom Conti, Samantha Bond, Malcolm Scates
Director Simon Delaney

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Episode 1
    Robert Gibson's murder looks almost exactly like the crime scene from a case that drove Joe Donovan into a breakdown and early retirement seven years earlier.
    49m
  • EPISODE 2
    Episode 2
    With Gibson's murder still unsolved, another body turns up murdered in nearly identical fashion-that of Philip White, a colleague and lover of Kate Donovan. Could the cuckolded scientist have killed White out of jealousy in a fugue state?
    48m
  • EPISODE 3
    Episode 3
    Now back as senior scientist in the Forensic Investigations Unit, Donovan doggedly pursues a serial killer who takes pretty blonde women as his victims. He thinks he knows not only the killer, but also the next target-Sharon Page.
    45m
  • EPISODE 4
    Episode 4
    When wealthy Stephen Parker is found shot through the chin in his swanky home, it seems like a robbery gone wrong. The evidence points to John Pinion, a self-proclaimed 'investment adviser' to whom Parker owed £8,000.
    1h 8m
  • EPISODE 5
    Episode 5
    The entire FIU team rushes to a secluded air force base, where a cargo plane has landed with all of its passengers and crew stricken by an unknown illness. Authorities believe it's biological terrorism.
    1h 7m

Related

Cast & Crew

  • Tom Conti
    Joe Donovan
  • Samantha Bond
    Kate Donovan
  • M‌S
    Malcolm Scates
    Michael Kinsley
  • Indira Varma
    Cara Mathis
  • D‌P
    Daniel Pape
    Paul Samsom
  • David Fleeshman
    Pete Moss
  • Ryan Cartwright
    Seth Donovan
  • J‌M
    James Midgley
    Bruce Corrigan
  • S‌D
    Simon Delaney
    Director
  • Andy Harries
    Producer
  • S‌C
    Spencer Campbell
    Producer

About

DNA

Crime

Joe Donovan returns from a breakdown to lead Manchester's Forensic Investigations Unit. When his first murder case suspiciously resembles the one that drove him into near madness years ago, he must use science to snare a killer-and save himself.

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Studio
AcornTV
Released
2004
Rated
TV-14
Region of Origin
United Kingdom

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English (United Kingdom)
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English (United Kingdom) (AAC)

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English (United Kingdom) (CC)

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