Murder Investigation Team - Season 1

First aired: 5/3/2003 8 episodes

Episodes

1. Moving Targets

Aired: 5/3/2003

Sgt Matt Boyden of The Bill and an unidentified black man are both murdered in a drive-by shooting. The gunman makes a speedy getaway leaving the police with no idea which man was the intended target. Matt's copper colleagues look on, devastated, as M.I.T comb the crime scene. Meanwhile his own drug addicted daughter, Amy, hears the news from a custody cell back at the nick. Still in shock, evidence collected from his daughter and colleagues lead MIT to discover Matt wasn't always on the right side of the law. Sure he may have had a few skeletons in his closet, but did anyone hold a killer grudge? The investigation takes a surprising turn when DI Samantha Nixon is brought in for questioning - her underage daughter has been involved with Boyden and she is now a major suspect in the murder enquiry. But until the second victim can be identified DI Vivien Friend knows she is only working with half an investigation... [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]

2. Daddy's Little Girl

Aired: 5/10/2003

DI Vivien Friend investigates the murder of a young woman whose remains have been found preserved in a concrete tomb at a demolition site. The only clues to her identity are a healed scar along her left hand and a puncture mark at the base of her spine from a medical procedure. The police investigation leads to a 3 year old missing persons case in which a young girl vanished from her parents' pub without trace. When the autopsy confirms it is the same missing girl, DI Friend has to break the news of her death to her distraught parents Celia and Phil Seabrook. The strongest lead is a mysterious photograph of their daughter with an unidentified man, and when the pathologist reveals their child Lucy was in the early stages of a pregnancy, the race is on to find him. [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]

3. Rubbish

Aired: 5/17/2003

Emotions of the Murder Investigation Team run high when the dismembered body of a small child is found on a Thames rubbish barge. A painstaking search through layers of decaying rubbish reveals some clues but a discovery during the post mortem is even more disturbing. The little boy's heart has been crudely removed from his body and it looks like his murder could be African ritualistic killing. The murdered child's parents have logged a missing persons report, but their priest prevents DI Friend from making contact. Offering to act as their interpreter the priest speaks on their behalf but MIT soon realise the parents do, in fact, speak English. Does the priest know more about the child's murder than he is letting on? And where is their younger child Francis? It's a race against time for MIT who have the chance to save a life instead of being there at the end of one... [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]

4. Reading, Writing and Gangbanging

Aired: 5/24/2003

The Murder Investigation Team are called out to a double murder on a run down housing estate. A middle-aged teacher, Martin Ramsey, has been pushed from his third floor window, and an old homeless man, Nelson Fairgrave, is found floating in a nearby lake - but what is the connection between the two men? A promising line of enquiry opens up when the police find out Ramsey was being intimidated by an ex-pupil, but there is little information to be had about the homeless man. When the police find several different trainer prints near to the lakeside they know they are looking for more than one man, but who would have wanted to kill Nelson Fairgrave, and why has Ramsey's computer been tampered with? [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]

5. Red Heads

Aired: 5/31/2003

When the body of Penny Wake, a young red-haired housewife, is found in undergrowth by a couple out jogging, DI Friend and the Murder Investigation Team are called in to investigate her death. There are no signs of a struggle but her body has been cleaned inside and out with bleach - the police know they are looking for a calculating and forensically aware killer. Her husband, Henry, has no alibi for the night of her murder and is consequently their prime suspect, but when another red-haired woman is brought into the local hospital drugged and disorientated a new line of enquiry opens up for the police team which will lead them to one man's terrible and dark secret. [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]

6. Lambs to the Slaughter

Aired: 6/7/2003

When a convicted paedophile, Barry Morton, is bludgeoned to death in his own home it looks like the work of vigilantes. The Murder Investigation Team's most promising lead in the enquiry is the phone call that the victim made to a possible associate, Peter Taylor. Barry has been calling Peter on a regular basis so when the police search his house and find photos of Barry with Peter's wife it throws up all manner of questions. Soon the police discover that Barry has recorded his own murder on his wife's answer machine - DI Vivien Friend realises that if they can decipher the background noises on the tape they might be able to piece together what really happened to Barry... [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]

7. Models and Millionaires

Aired: 6/14/2003

Natasha McKay is the woman with everything - a glamorous modelling career and a rich property developer for a husband. But when her disfigured body washes up on the banks of the Thames it becomes apparent that Natasha's life was not all that it seemed. An ex-school friend comes forward to the police to come clean about his affair with Natasha: they were in love and they were going to marry. But when the police interview her husband Dennis McKay, he has an alibi for the night of her disappearance. [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]

8. The Bigger the Lie

Aired: 6/21/2003

Tensions run high in the Bangladeshi Community when the body of journalist Ellen Merrick is found dead in a disused shop in the local market place. Witnesses are reluctant to come forward to the police so the only clue the team have to work with is a bloody trainer print and some fibres from a nylon tracksuit at the crime scene. MIT urgently need to find out what story Ellen was working on at the time of her death, but newspaper colleagues are reluctant to co-operate and with silence from the local community, DI Viv Friend needs to move quickly if she is to catch Ellen's killer, but she certainly doesn't count on another case opening up before her eyes... [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]