Silent Witness

1996 • BBC

4.7

51 reviews

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Season 16 episodes (10)

1 Season 16 - Change, Part 1

9/1/13

Season-only

When John Briggs, a wealthy business owner, is found dead, Nikki works with forensic scientist Jack Hodgson to convince DI Gold it was murder. Leo, warned by the Home Office to rethink the Lyell Centre's operations, helps Nikki prove Briggs died from a mysterious allergic reaction. However, as suited sharks circle to buy Briggs' ailing company, Jack believes someone exploited this allergy to kill.

2 Season 16 - Change, Part 2

10/1/13

Season-only

Whilst Nikki, Leo and Jack struggle to ascertain how Deanna was killed and ended up in the Thames, DI Gold focuses on two main suspects in John Briggs' inner circle. However, when Geraldine makes a sinister confession about why she gave her daughter up for adoption and disowned her wealthy family, it dramatically changes the course of the investigation.

3 Season 16 - Trust, Part 1

16/1/13

Season-only

The case of two young women shot dead in a house basement forces Jack to lock horns with an old flame, the ambitious DI Chrissy Reed. As the pair's animosity rapidly escalates due to their conflicting motive theories and failure to ID the victims, Nikki's probing unearths the potentially career-damaging truth behind it.

4 Season 16 - Trust, Part 2

17/1/13

Season-only

As the basement women case highlights two cooperating killers, Nikki, Jack and DI Reed realise one victim was killed by a controlled sedative, stolen from a high-tech vaccine research lab. And suspicion falls on Lucas Ballinger, a scientist who works there.

5 Season 16 - True Love Waits, Part 1

23/1/13

Season-only

When a pub landlady is stabbed to death and her little finger cut off, her husband, Roly, is the prime suspect. However, as Nikki, Jack, and emotionally fragile detective, DI Kate Warren, piece together mounting evidence, inconsistencies lead Nikki to believe Roly's innocent.

6 Season 16 - True Love Waits, Part 2

24/1/13

Season-only

When the team finally unearth the shocking truth about Imogen's murder, it exposes a web of lies and deceit which puts those connected to the case in imminent danger from the sinister Alan Lane.

7 Season 16 - Legacy, Part 1

30/1/13

Season-only

Nikki and Jack are under pressure when a teenager's remains halt an eco-housing project, while Leo is trapped in a dangerous hospital siege as distraught Tom Hancock holds a ward at gunpoint to turn off his terminally ill son's life support.

8 Season 16 - Legacy, Part 2

31/1/13

Season-only

Whilst Nikki and Jack close the net on Brian Blackburn's troubled son for murdering his co-worker at the eco-housing project, Leo finally finds someone willing to confirm his fear about the mysterious local health hazard. But when his would-be-informant is found murdered, Leo is convinced he was the victim of a government conspiracy to conceal the truth.

9 Season 16 - Greater Love, Part 1

7/2/13

Season-only

The team go to Afghanistan at the request of a British Army Corporal who is trying to identify the remains of his brother. An anxious Leo, Nikki and Jack head for the war-torn country in search of the truth about the soldier's mysterious disappearance.

10 Season 16 - Greater Love, Part 2

8/2/13

Season-only

Nikki, Jack and Leo struggle to identify the human remains with only sections of skeleton found and basic forensic facilities. As they put the pieces together and assemble the skull fragments, they make an unnerving discovery that challenges their theory of what happened to Dan Lambert.

About this show

Every dead body tells a story; who they were, how they lived, and most importantly, how they died. Silent Witness follows a team of expert pathologists at the Lyell Centre as they attempt to dissect the truth and help the friends and families of the deceased deal with the aftermath of terrible crimes in this gripping and emotionally charged drama.

Ratings and reviews

4.7

51 reviews

Aaron W

14 June 2022

Great show, poor google play . This is a great series however in the Australian Google Play, I'm very disappointend that at this stage you are unable to purchase any of the series from season 1 - 10, but you can buy the remaining series. If other media stores have the ability for you to purchase these seasons, then why can't Google? Until this happens I won't be buying any of the seasons.

1 April 2017

Tbh, Silent Witness is one of things that kept me alive when I was depressed. That's a bit extreme and not overly helpful to the average viewer, but it's true. My past desperation aside, these characters are complex, realistic, and beautiful. They feel like home to fans of the show, and the scientific attention to detail (while not always accurate, c'mon, what crime show is?) is mesmerising. A triumph of television, and a positive work of art. I'll stop with the flowery descriptions now (I'm a poet, can't help it), and just say: This show is always enjoyable, has achieved massive viewership in the UK (season 20 has over 8mill), had a massively positive impact on my life and I couldn't recommend it more highly. I love Silence Witness.

Daniela Duspara

2 April 2016

Yet another great TV experience done the way it should be done.. Different enough from all other 1 million crime dramas of today... Very well written and actors, particularly new comers Jack and Clarissa, make the show.. Nikki is brilliantly portrayed by Emilia fox!!