Robert Gibson's murder looks almost exactly like the crime scene from a case that drove Joe Donovan into a breakdown and early retirement seven years earlier.
With Gibson's murder still unsolved, another body turns up murdered in nearly identical fashion-that of Philip White, a colleague and lover of Kate Donovan. Could the cuckolded scientist have killed White out of jealousy in a fugue state?
Now back as senior scientist in the Forensic Investigations Unit, Donovan doggedly pursues a serial killer who takes pretty blonde women as his victims. He thinks he knows not only the killer, but also the next target-Sharon Page.
When wealthy Stephen Parker is found shot through the chin in his swanky home, it seems like a robbery gone wrong. The evidence points to John Pinion, a self-proclaimed 'investment adviser' to whom Parker owed £8,000.
The entire FIU team rushes to a secluded air force base, where a cargo plane has landed with all of its passengers and crew stricken by an unknown illness. Authorities believe it's biological terrorism.
Tom Conti
Joe Donovan
Samantha Bond
Kate Donovan
Malcolm Scates
Michael Kinsley
Indira Varma
Cara Mathis
Daniel Pape
Paul Samsom