Silent Witness

1996

4.7

167 reviews

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Season 16 episodes (10)

1 Change, Part 1

1/10/13

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 Change, Part 2

1/11/13

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 Trust, Part 1

1/17/13

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 Trust, Part 2

1/18/13

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 True Love Waits, Part 1

1/24/13

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 True Love Waits, Part 2

1/25/13

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 Legacy, Part 1

1/31/13

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 Legacy, Part 2

2/1/13

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 Greater Love, Part 1

2/8/13

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 Greater Love, Part 2

2/9/13

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

Ratings and reviews

4.7

167 reviews

Karen “Kazsta10” Weirdgirl2.0

October 13, 2014

Love Silent Witness, it is very well written, and realistic. Far better than American shows like CSI or Body of Evidence, they don't solve a crime with one hair, and theyre not always held hostage or saving the entire country etc lol! Gritty stories, gory in places, and although I do because I am cursed that way, not everyone I know solves the crimes in the first 10 minutes. Brilliant show, I've watched from the very start, still going strong!

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Katie Hodgson

April 8, 2015

Silent witness is perhaps the best show on telly! My fave series were series 10-15 when the main cast were Emilia Fox (Nikki) Tom Ward (Harry) and William Gaminara (Leo). They are all amazing at acting!!!

Rebecka Pullen

June 10, 2016

Better that the american ones they keep it real and keep you hooked . Loved after the fall seriously thought Nikky was going to die . Hope she is in it until the end