8.3/1049 votes#1 - Passion
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2002
A lonely call-centre supervisor, who has become obsessed with her married boss, decides that he is having an affair with one of her co-workers. She decides to eliminate all the competition by murdering the co-worker and framing the wife for the crime.
Director: Gerry Poulson
Writer: Simon Sharkey
- 7.8/1048 votes
#2 - Disposal
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/2002
Barry Coates, a married man after a long time discovers that his wife, Angela is having an affair with his brother-in-law. He is unwilling to dirupt his comfortable domestic situation, so he plans to commit the perfect murder. He meticulously sets about to murder his brother-in-law by giving the appereance that it was a random street mugging.
Director: Frank W. Smith
Writer: J. C. Wilsher
- 7.3/1041 votes
#3 - Rage
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/2/2002
Edward Buttimore is a single man in his 40s living with his mother, Rose. One day, in a moment of a road rage he kills a man on isolated country road. He attends the funeral for the victim and preteds befront of everyone that he is an old friend of his. Soon he befriends his wife, the widow Samantha Johnstone, who leans on him for support when she discovers that her late husband was leading a double life.
Director: David Innes Edwards
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
- 7.3/1033 votes
#4 - Swan Song
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/20/2002
Tara Stevens, a young night-club singer is lately feeling stifled by her rich husband Derek, so she plans to have him murdered. She ha san affair with Mark White, an ex-com who now works as a security guard in her husbands office. After she talks him into it, Mark agrees to kill her husband. After the murder has been comitted, the murder has been investigated by detective superintendent Mike Garret. Soon it turns out that Tara is really having an affair with Mike. They together plotted to set Mark White up to murder Tara's husband…
Director: Frank W. Smith
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
- 7.2/1041 votes
#5 - Flashback
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2002
Successful barrister, Nicholas Chadwack, plots to murder Angela Stephenson, his mistress, when she wants from him to give her money, so she would keep their affair as a secret. He successfully frames one of his clients with the murder by planting forensic evidence at the murder scene, whom he then ""defends"" in court. The story plays out in flashbacks which are presented in reverse chronological order - so we first see the trial, then the method of framing, then the murder, then the development of the motive.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Stephen Leather
7.6/1044 votes#6 - Victim
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/6/2002
Emily Stapleford and Lucy Slater, a longtime friends, move in as lodgers with reclusive writer Colin Edwards in his house. Recently, there's been several highly-publicised murders of young women in the area. When a sixth victime of the murderer has been discovered, Emily and Lucy's suspicions have been aroused. So, now they must find out could their landlord, Colin Edwards be a killer. Lucy becomes obsessed with the whole story so she keeps a scrapbook on the murders…
Director: Audrey Cooke
Writer: Guy Burt
- 7.1/1042 votes
#7 - Memories
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/20/2002
Stuart Wisher, a successful paediatric surgeon, is haunted by ghosts from his past. The happily married father of three appears to have the world at his feet. But he's tormented by a nightmare in which a nine-year old boy runs through dense woodland, pursued by a faceless individual. The nightmare always ends with the boy falling over and meeting his death. Desperate for answers, Stuart seeks psychiatric help. But nothing prepares him for what he discovers.
Director: Nick Jones
Writer: Stephen Leather
- 7.4/1041 votes
#8 - Regrets
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/28/2002
When Ken Grendle's own company is plunged into a financial crisis, he makes a desperate plea for help to his bank. But, with mounting bills and an overdraft limit in excess of £40,000, the bank gives the entrepreneur just one week to sort out his finances. With nobody by him, apart from faithful PA Christine on his side, Ken decides to embark on a desperate crusade to save his dying farm supplies business.
Director: Gerry Poulson
Writer: Simon Sharkey
The Best Episodes of Murder in Mind Season 2
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Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
Genres:DramaCrime
Network:BBC One
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Passion" is the best rated episode of "Murder in Mind" season 2. It scored 8.3/10 based on 49 votes. Directed by Gerry Poulson and written by Simon Sharkey, it aired on 1/5/2002. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Disposal".