WETA UK Waking the Dead Series 2 Episode Guide.pdf

WAKING THE DEAD
Series 2
On WETA UK Thursdays at 9:00pm!
Episodes One and Two: Life Sentence
Episode One
Known as the Gambler, Thomas Rice (Samuel West – Over Here, Persuasion, Pandaemonium, Iris) is a psychotic
killer jailed for the murder of five women in the late Eighties. He used to force the police to draw a playing card to
decide on the fate of his victims.
Dr Clare Delaney (Susannah Harker – House of Cards, Pride and Prejudice) is the only woman who survived an
encounter with him – her card was the Queen of Hearts. One night she is disturbed at home by a stalker, who leaves
the Queen of Hearts on her car windscreen.
The Cold Case Squad is called in. As Rice is safely locked up in jail, Boyd reinvestigates his pet theory that Rice had
an accomplice – someone who is still on the loose. But Delaney can shed no light on his theory; she had been
blindfolded. Boyd is convinced that two other women who went missing in the 1980s were The Gambler’s first victims,
and sends Grace and Mel to interview Rice in prison in the hope that they can trick him into revealing whether or not
he acted alone.
Rice initially denies all knowledge, but when Mel is used to draw him out by visiting him on her own, he admits to the
murder of one of the missing women and describes where the body is buried. Just as Boyd believes he has the edge,
he receives a package. It contains a pack of playing cards and a photograph of a young woman, tied up and holding a
recent newspaper. Boyd is instructed to draw a card to determine her fate. It’s happening again…
Episode Two
The Gambler's partner is seemingly active once more and has abducted a young woman. The team manage to
identify her as Maya Wilson (Sheyla Shehovich), a prostitute, but are up against time in tracing her and her abductor,
who is awaiting a response about the playing card.
Boyd interviews Clare Delaney once more and this time she cracks. She confesses that Rice let her live because she
had sex with him; it was she who suggested the card games with the police. Armed with this new information, Boyd
confronts The Gambler and rattles him. Rice admits to abducting the second missing woman, but denies all
knowledge of Maya.
Rice escapes on his way back to the prison, aided by his old partner and friend, Paul Bryant (Simon Gregor). Paul's
father (David Burke) has been visiting Thomas in prison and unwittingly carrying messages between the two. The
team rush to Paul's workshop, presuming they will find Maya. Instead they find Paul, shot dead. Boyd realizes that
Rice will go looking for Clare Delaney…

Episodes Three and Four: Deathwatch
Episode Three
On his deathbed in an East End nursing home, Harry Newman (Howard Goorney) confesses to 12 separate
‘unauthorized killings’. Boyd and the team are called in. There are puzzling battle scars and tattoos on his body, and it
doesn’t take long for Frankie to realize that Newman has been murdered. Is there a connection to the confession
The team embarks on a very unusual investigation, to discover the facts surrounding the deaths of each of the names
on Newman’s list. The victims all appear to have died violently during the 1960s and 70s.
One of the last people to have talked to Newman was a journalist, Graham Barker (William Armstrong – Capital
City), who specializes in books about London’s Sixties underworld scene. At an old East End pub called The Poor
Struggler, he tells the team that Newman claimed to have something to disclose, but died before telling him what it
was.
Grace quickly ascertains that Newman had none of the hallmarks of a serial killer. From a military crest on one of his
tattoos, he can be identified as Peter Harper, a former commando. But why kill Father Cameron (David Ashton), the
priest who heard his confession
The surviving husband of one of Newman/Harper's victims is located and provides Boyd with the link he needs. The12
victims were the jury on the famous Miller's Wharf trial, during which a gangster – Charlie Sutton (Adam Leese) –
was found guilty of killing two policemen and was hanged. Was Newman a hit man hired by someone to kill the jury
out of revenge – Charlie Sutton’s gangster brother Frank (Toby Mace), perhaps
Boyd visits Malcolm Finlay (David Hemmings), the retired detective once in charge of the Miller's Wharf case. Could
any associates of Frank's still be alive and anxious to silence witnesses Finlay can shed no light but gives him
Frank's file.
But just as Grace is making progress on the character profile of Newman and the possible vengeance of Frank
Sutton, she is brutally attacked by an unknown assailant and her papers are stolen.
Warren Mitchell (Till Death Us Do Part, In Sickness and in Health, Gormenghast) plays Edgar Truelove, the
hangman responsible for the execution of Sutton.
Episode Four
With Grace recovering from her attack, the team continue on their quest to identify whoever commissioned hitman
Newman/Harper. Chief suspect Frank Sutton (Toby Mace) died in a house fire in 1976, and two of the jurors died
after this date. Did Newman just carry on killing in order to finish the job It seems unlikely.
Boyd starts to wonder if Frank is really dead. He takes the team to the prison where Charlie Sutton was hanged.
There they exhume his body and pay a visit to the cell where the hanging took place. They also dig up Frank's body
from its resting place in Bethnal Green cemetery, and forensic work on the DNA reveals that the body is not Frank's.
He must still be alive, and intent on avenging his innocent brother's death.
Boyd and Grace decide to explore the issue of Charlie's innocence. They visit retired hangman Edgar Truelove
(Warren Mitchell – Till Death Us Do Part, In Sickness and in Health, Gormenghast), who reluctantly explains that
Charlie proclaimed his innocence at the gallows. He also tells them they are not the only people to ask about Charlie
Sutton recently – Frank (Ronald Pickup) has also paid him a visit.
There is still the mystery of Grace’s attacker and the body in Frank's grave. DNA samples from under Grace’s
fingernails and a computer reconstruction of the skull give Boyd a few leads. He calls in former detective Finlay
(David Hemmings), who identifies the main in the grave as Laurence Murrell, part of a crime family and rivals of the
Suttons. The attacker appears to be a close relative.
This leads Boyd to The Poor Struggler pub, now owned as part of a property company by Carl Murrell (Steve
Weston). Finlay’s name turns up in the company's financial records. Meanwhile, at Miller's Wharf, Frank Sutton and
Finlay face each other in a final confrontation…

Episodes Five and Six: Special Relationship
Episode Five
When a petty burglar is acquitted of murdering prominent Home Office advisor Katherine Reed (Francesca Ryan),
the Cold Case Squad is called in. Reed was a prominent feminist academic who joined the establishment after having
attacked it for years. Boyd’s team is determined to examine places where the previous investigation feared to tread.
Coincidentally, the original investigating officer, Jess Worrall (Ruth Gemmell – Band of Gold, Silent Witness), is an
old flame of Boyd’s.
Simultaneously – much to Boyd’s chagrin – the team is subject to a Home Office audit. The auditor, Mary Holmes
(Billie-Claire Wright), is assigned to shadow their investigation. All enquiries lead to the Permanent Private Secretary
at the Home Office, Sir James Beatty (Corin Redrave – The Ice House, The Forsyte Saga). A formidable mandarin in
a position, should he choose, to seriously damage Boyd’s career, Sir James insists that Boyd signs the
Official Secrets Act before he will disclose any information which may be relevant to the case.
Under questioning, Sir James reluctantly admits that on the night of Reed’s murder he visited her home for top-secret
talks, accompanied by the local CIA Head of Station, Larry Karp (Colin Stinton). Boyd reveals evidence of a coverup,
but Sir James refuses to be intimidated. When Frankie finds forensic evidence on semen in Reed’s body, Boyd
returns to Sir James’s office and surreptitiously obtains specimens for DNA analysis.
Episode Six
Frankie confirms that the semen in Reed’s body matches Sir James’s DNA. He is now Boyd’s prime suspect and he
goes after him in earnest. He discovers that not only did Beatty's two children die in mysterious circumstances, but
that his wife, Lady Alice (Patricia Hodge – Rumpole, Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Jemima Shore Investigates), has
always suspected him of having something to do with their deaths. She confirms that Sir James was having an affair
with Reed and that she wasn't the first. But following their own line of investigation, Grace and Mel discover that,
despite having an estranged husband, Reed was actually a lesbian and having a long-term relationship with an old
university colleague, Lorna Gyles (Amanda Root – Persuasion, Mortimer’s Law).
Grace tries to urge Boyd to be cautious but he ignores her and risks his career by arresting his ultimate boss, Sir
James, only to find that he has a watertight alibi for the time of the murder: he was with his secretary, Ann
Hardingham (Kika Markham), who has been his mistress for many years. Things look worse and worse for Boyd
when Ann attempts suicide and it is revealed that Sir James had had a vasectomy 15 years earlier.
Grace and Mel discover that Reed was receiving fertility treatment from Lady Alice, an expert in IVF. Grace explains
that Lady Alice had murdered Reed and unquestionably her children, as a means of preventing her husband from
leaving her. Planting his sperm in Reed's dead body would have given her the ultimate control over him. She only had
to alert the authorities and he would be suspected of murder.
The team rush to arrest Lady Alice, only to find that she has gone to the hospital where Ann is recovering from her
suicide attempt. Will they arrive in time to prevent Lady Alice from administering a lethal overdose of a barbiturate
And did Sir James know of his wife's guilt

Episodes Seven and Eight: Thin Air
Episode Seven
Beautiful 18-year old Joanna Gold (Sophie Winkleman) disappeared in broad daylight on Hampstead Heath in1989.
Now her famous red dress has been discovered in a lock-up in Kings Cross. Boyd is certain that when he finds
the owner of the lock-up, he will have found Joanna's murderer. He hauls in the owner, reclusive hippy Alec
Garvey(Justin Salinger), who lives in a house on the Heath.
To the intense interest of the Commissioner of the Met (Jack Ellis – Bad Girls) and the nation's Press, Boyd charges
him with murder. The wealthy Gold family are relieved to be closing the chapter of grief at last. But Garvey claims he
and Joanna were just friends and a postcard from Joanna is found to support this claim. Despite Grace's warnings,
Boyd ignores this and still thinks he's got his man.
It is only when Garvey attempts suicide that Boyd thinks again. Dogged by the feeling he has moved too fast, he
decides to investigate Joanna's life more thoroughly.
He quickly discovers that the case is more complicated than originally suspected. Apparently unknown to her parents,
Benjamin and Leah (Roger Allam and Cherie Lunghi – The Buccaneers, The Manageress), Joanna was not the
paragon of virtue the press always stated. She was secretly having fun at dance clubs with the nanny, Elaine Ashcroft
(Louise Delamare). An interview with Elaine confirms this, as does Ecstasy discovered in the pocket of the red
dress.
The clubbing lead takes DS Spencer Jordan to his old mate, Charlie Bellows (Steve Toussaint), who ran the clubs
which Joanna went to. Charlie claims no personal knowledge of Joanna.
That night, Elaine is found stabbed to death in her council flat…
Episode Eight
When the team discover that Elaine and Charlie were friends, and also that Charlie had been in her flat shortly before
her death, Spencer is forced to haul in his old friend. Under pressure, Charlie confesses he did know Joanna. In fact,
he had been dating her at the time of her disappearance. DNA evidence places him on the Heath with her just after
she went missing.
Meanwhile, Boyd has befriended Clara (Sophie Winkleman), who is the spitting image of Joanna and now the same
age that her sister was when she disappeared.Worryingly, she says she has been stalked recently and is convinced
her stalker is Joanna’s killer. Clara had also seen Elaine on the day before she died, and found a distinctive smileyface
badge at her flat. Joanna was wearing it when she disappeared. Perhaps this is what the killer noticed on Clara,
and silenced
Elaine
Clara has been consumed by the need to find her sister's killer for years. Now she becomes obsessed with Boyd and
starts sharing secrets with him that she has previously hidden about her sister's life. She also persuades him to let her
wear the red dress and go onto the Heath in an attempt to catch her stalker. They do indeed get followed, but Boyd is
unable to catch up with the man and he escapes.
Charlie tells Spencer that, as he left Elaine's flat, he saw a man with a toolbox and overalls go into the building. Boyd
realizes that Joanna's killer is much closer to home than they thought. Elaine's body had engine oil on it. Joanna's
brother David (George Calil) runs toy cars that use the same oil. When David is brought in for questioning, he
confesses to Elaine’s murder. But Boyd isn’t convinced; instead he suspects over-protective father, Benjamin Gold, of
murdering Joanna and Elaine, and of stalking Clara. At this point, the Met Commissioner intervenes. He has heard
about Boyd's midnight trip on the Heath with Clara Gold and tells Boyd to clear his desk…