Waking the Dead: #19 – S03 E01 – Part 1/2 – Multistorey – Trevor Eve, Claire Goose, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Holly Aird

The Series

Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series, produced by the BBC, that centres on a fictional London-based Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and a total of nine series followed. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One.

This Episode

Carl McKenzie, a man convicted of opening fire on a town centre crowd from a multi-storey car park, and killing a policeman in the process, protests his innocence. He claims that he was kidnapped by the actual killer, locked in the back of a camper van, and forced to watch as the killings took place. Boyd’s colleagues question where his loyalties lie when he seems unwilling to re-investigate the case. As Mel digs deeper, she discovers some disturbing truths about her boss, and also discovers that the policeman killed in the massacre was one of Boyd’s best friends. Boyd struggles with his past, whilst continuing the investigation into the mass murderer, who was also guilty of killing his close friend. When a theory revealed at the time of the murders proves to be completely hollow, Boyd begins to believe that the gunman’s claims of innocence are true. As the team investigate further, it looks as if someone else may have been involved, and that the policeman’s death may have been caused by friendly fire, and that McKenzie may have been telling the truth. Featuring Sean Pertwee as Carl McKenzie, Jason Hughes as Andrew Cross, Robert Pugh as Robert Cross, Kim Vithana as Beth Downing, Guy Henry as Guy Reynolds, Shirley Anne Field as Monica Reynolds, Raji James as Stephen Markland, Brendan Coyle as Martin Corgan, Clarke Peters as Howard Boorstin, Cliff Parisi as Tony King, Saskia Wickham as Sally Patterson and Zig Byfield as John Nesbit.