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The Best Episodes of Murder City

Every episode of Murder City ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Murder City!

Murder City is a British police drama that centres on two mismatched detectives who scour London solving complex cases.
Genre:Drama
Network:STV

Best Episodes Summary

"Wives and Lovers" is the best rated episode of "Murder City". It scored 8.1/10 based on 74 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/5/2006. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Death of a Ladies' Man".

  • Wives and Lovers
    8.1/1074 votes
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    #1 - Wives and Lovers

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2006

    A teenage couple kiss one another goodnight when the dead body of a woman is thrown from the top of an apartment block, killing the young man. DC Bain links the dead woman to a dating agency for married people, and DI Alembic goes undercover as a client.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death of a Ladies' Man
    8.0/1062 votes
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    #2 - Death of a Ladies' Man

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2006

    DI Susan Alembic and DS Luke Stone investigate the sniper-shooting of a young man in his flat, while DCs Alison Bain and Frank Craven deal with a hit-and-run killing.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Game Over
    7.7/1053 votes
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    #3 - Game Over

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2006

    One young woman is strangled as she lets herself into her flat, while across town another wakes to find her boyfriend has been shot while she slept.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Happy Families
    7.5/1086 votes
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    #4 - Happy Families

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/1/2004

    The butchered body of a woman is found in a rubbish dump and the investigation into her murder leads Susan and Luke onto the trail of a baby-smuggling operation based in the Ukraine.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nothing Sacred
    7.5/1069 votes
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    #5 - Nothing Sacred

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/22/2004

    The owner of a gallery specialising in Islamic art is discovered in the boot of a submerged car. Armed with a clue found in the dead man's flat, Alembic and Stone head for a casino, but their investigation is destined to end in further tragedy.

    Director: Sam Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • Under The Skin
    7.4/1090 votes
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    #6 - Under The Skin

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/2004

    When an unearthed skull opens a murder investigation, Stone orders a facial reconstruction of the skull and the photographs go to press, prompting a woman to come forward claiming that the face in the photo belongs to a man who raped and strangled her sister several years earlier. When Dumfries informs them that a different man was convicted of that murder, Stone and Alembic dig further and unearth a web of lies surrounding the previous investigation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Big City Small World
    7.4/1065 votes
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    #7 - Big City Small World

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/15/2004

    A wealthy Turkish businessman killed in a drive-by shooting at first appears to have been an unlucky casualty of a turf war between Kurds and Turks, until a pathologist's report reveals that he had died of a heart attack before being shot and had also been poisoned.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Just Seventeen
    7.4/1059 votes
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    #8 - Just Seventeen

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2006

    A teenaged girl is found dead in her school with her wrists slashed, while a man has been tied to a tree and shot dead in the woods nearby. Stone and Alembic lead separate investigations, but is there a connection?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mr Right
    7.3/1075 votes
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    #9 - Mr Right

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/8/2004

    A 25-year-old woman and her lover are found dead in a hotel room, shot through the head with with the same single bullet. The man, Alan Scobie, is identified as a notorious criminal on remand for manslaughter, but it isn't clear which of the two was the original target.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Critical Path
    7.0/10122 votes
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    #10 - The Critical Path

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/17/2004

    When a 16-year-old girl disappears from her home, leaving a blood-spattered bedroom behind, Susan and Luke start trying to track down the missing teenager, hoping that she may still be alive. Meanwhile, the mysterious death of a City trader who is shot in the neck with an arrow proves a tough case to crack.

    Director: Sam Miller

    Writer: N/A