Murder Investigation Team (TV series)
A middle-aged teacher, Martin Ramsey, has been pushed from his third floor window, and an old homeless man, Nelson Fairgrave, is found floating in a nearby lake – but what is the connection between the two men?When the body of Penny Wake, a young red-haired housewife, is found in undergrowth by a mother and son out jogging, Vivien and the team are called in to investigate her death.Her husband, Neil, has no alibi for the night of her murder and is consequently their prime suspect, but when another red-haired woman is brought into the local hospital drugged and disorientated, a new line of enquiry opens up for the team which leads them to one man's terrible and dark secret.Soon enough, a ring of faked pornographic photographs and the gambling debts of one of McKay's co-workers reveal the true motive for murder – and Vivien is sure that the evidence is strong enough to warrant an arrest.Tensions run high in the Bangladeshi Community when the body of journalist Ellen Merrick is found dead in a disused shop in the local market place.Witnesses are reluctant to come forward to the police so the only clue the team have to work with is a bloody trainer print and some fibres from a nylon tracksuit at the crime scene.Initially, Trevor suspects that outside influences such as Ed's involvement with the importation of stolen mobile phones, and a violent argument with a former co-worker are the motives behind his murder.A search of Karl's house discovers a seventeen-year-old girl's medical file hidden between a collection of old LPs, and the discovery that she died just five days after a routine appendix operation.Suspecting that the hospital's clinical lead, Dr. Stuart Masters, may have botched the operation in order to save time, gives the team a perfect motive for his murder.The pressure is on the team as the net tightens to secure a result when professional football player Sean Reynolds is found beaten to death near a local park.When CCTV shows Trevor accompanying the victim home, he soon becomes the prime suspect – but can his best friend and colleague Rosie prove that he is not capable of murder?