Silent Witness

2018
3.7
54 reviews
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Season 20 episodes (10)

1 Identity, Pt. 1
1/2/17
When a people-smuggler is found dead in the City, Nikki must delve London’s illegal immigrant community. She meets a vulnerable Syrian teen called Akka who is in need of help, putting Nikki in a moral dilemma – and the killer is still on the loose.
2 Identity, Pt. 2
1/3/17
When Nikki, Jack and Thomas make a horrific discovery in the van, they’re confronted with the work of a killer who preys on illegal immigrants. With the help of Clarissa, they must work out where the killer will strike next before more vulnerable people meet the same fate.
3 Discovery, Pt. 1
1/9/17
When a photogenic young schoolteacher goes missing, Jack and Nikki are called to the scene and quickly find themselves at the center of a media storm. Meanwhile, Thomas fights a lone crusade for justice for a troubled young woman who was killed in puzzling circumstances.
4 Discovery, Pt. 2
1/10/17
Having found a link between the two cases, the team struggle to make sense of it. Nikki visits a disgraced former colleague who may hold the key. Thomas uncovers the bizarre truth about how Tina died.
5 Remembrance, Pt. 1
1/16/17
A woman’s body found floating in the Thames leads Nikki and Jack to a community on the banks of the River Lee. Three years ago a teenager called Ruth Tresize went missing from the area, leaving the locals haunted by suspicion and grief. A fresh spate of killings reopens these old wounds.
6 Remembrance, Pt. 2
1/18/17
Nikki is under fire for leaking information on a suspect, and Thomas is called in to play peacemaker. Jack and DI Ashton track down the mystery witness. Before the killer strikes again, the team must uncover the true story of Ruth Tresize’s disappearance three years earlier.
7 Covenant, Pt. 1
1/23/17
When an East End father and son are killed in a shocking road accident, Nikki and Jack find themselves working alongside a police officer with a vendetta. Clarissa summons her husband Max, a digital forensics expert, to help crack the case – and uncovers disturbing video evidence.
8 Covenant, Pt. 2
1/24/17
Nikki reaches out to Becky to help her deal with her trauma, as her father is implicated in the killings. Jack’s paranoia about Clarissa leaving deepens further when the pair joins forces with Max. And the death of a schoolteacher proves key to the mystery.
9 Awakening, Pt. 1
1/30/17
Nikki travels to Mexico when her friend is killed in a car-jacking. But soon she makes a discovery that sets her on collision course with some dangerous and unpredictable forces. Thomas sends Jack to brink Nikki home, but soon he is knee-deep in the unfolding situation.
10 Awakening, Pt. 2
1/31/17
With Nikki locked in a struggle for survival, Jack is must use all of his abilities to track her down. When a mysterious person calls to make demands in return for Nikki’s release, Jack’s moral principles are put to the test. And with life and death in the balance, every decision counts…

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 uncover the truth behind a series of suspicious murders in this gripping drama.

Ratings and reviews

3.7
54 reviews
A Google user
April 15, 2017
The first 3 episodes of this series is fine--not great or even good--but passably entertaining, but the final episode "Sins of the Father" is so hair-raisingly racist you will be transported back to the 1920s when Asian characters were presented as sub-human despots. The main character, a young Vietnamese woman who has struggled her way through medical school, is afraid to contradict her father's "arranged marriage" to an older wealthy Vietnamese man, and so she marries him. When she tells him she was raped as a young girl on a refugee boat, her betrothed goes into a madman's froth and begins beating her and her father to death... ergo, the plot. I didn't watch beyond this because I've seen enough racism of this genre to last a lifetime.
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Charito Holbrook
June 23, 2022
It is well made and so realistic. Sometimes I feel like not watching certain episodes because of the title of the episode. You do such a great job that I get transported into the stories. Makes you open your eyes to the pain and suffering of the world. From cartels to human trafficking to illegals etc. I do want Nicky to have a true constant love in the series.
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Antonina Cawley
March 24, 2021
S4 e1, e2 if you have love ones happen to them you shouldnt watch it, catches the goings on in a plane crash. Found it, real enough for me to feel sad and imagine if i had happen to my love one. Being on the news in the past you can relate same feelings.
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