Silent Witness

2018
3.7
55 reviews
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Season 11 episodes (10)

1 Apocalypse, Pt. 1
8/28/07
When an RAF helicopter crashes onto a detention center for asylum seekers, Harry and Nikki are first on the scene. But as the case progresses, Nikki discovers irregularities among the asylum seekers and Harry starts falling out with the Ministry Of Defence.
2 Apocalypse, Pt. 2
8/29/07
Obsessed with proving the pilot’s innocence, Harry suspects the MOD may be covering up the true cause of the helicopter crash. Nikki identifies the detention center victim but realises that by doing so she may have put his daughter in danger.
3 Suffer the Children, Pt. 1
9/3/07
The discovery of a mutilated child’s body in a river raises the question of ritual killing and brings Leo face-to-face with a ghost from his past. Meanwhile, Nikki investigates the apparently suspicious death of a priest from a local Catholic boys’ school.
4 Suffer the Children, Pt. 2
9/4/07
Leo refuses to back down in his search for the killers of the young boy, despite threats and increasing racial tension. Meanwhile, Nikki’s enquiries turn from the boys’ school to a local doctor.
5 Hippocratic Oath, Pt. 1
9/10/07
A post mortem on a child who died during pioneering surgery prompts Nikki to investigate a leading paediatrician with an unusually high mortality rate.
6 Hippocratic Oath, Pt. 2
9/11/07
With Nikki out of action and a theatre nurse missing, Harry and Leo dig deeper into the hospital deaths. Are there two killers on the loose?
7 Double Dare, Pt. 1
9/17/07
Nikki is forced to revisit an emotive and controversial case from her past when a notorious female murderer is herself murdered.
8 Double Dare, Pt. 2
9/18/07
Nikki’s professional reputation is at stake as doubts about the Paula Colebrook case continue. Meanwhile, Harry is investigating two unidentified bodies found in the garden of an empty house.
9 Peripheral Vision, Pt. 1
9/24/07
Nikki clashes with DCI Mays over the guilt of a gypsy he suspects of a double murder, while Harry takes on an insurance company which is refusing to pay out life assurance over a case of CJD.
10 Peripheral Vision, Pt. 2
9/25/07
Was the gypsy’s death suicide or murder? Nikki and Mays can’t agree, and Nikki’s investigations into his and the girls’ deaths expose a significant police cover-up and lead her danger.

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
55 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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