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Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Wire in the Blood Season 2 Episode 2 - The Darkness of Light
    7.2/10(363 votes)

    #1 - The Darkness of Light

    S2:E2

    The remains of corpses are discovered whilst new foundations are being dug at the Norton Hotel, a building which stands on the site of an abbey, a fact which leads to a suspicion that these were religious killings. Then the hotel is burnt down and,as the first of a series of murders takes place, Carol asks for Tony's involvement. The strange thing is that these murders are identical to those committed some five hundred years earlier.

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  2. Wire in the Blood Season 3 Episode 2 - Bad Seed
    7.4/10(288 votes)

    #2 - Bad Seed

    S3:E2

    Tony Hill works with the police to solve the murder of the Johnsons, who were butchered in their flat. When a second victim, Sarah Maynard, is similarly killed they realize they have a serial killer on their hands. William MacAdam, a one-time killer is now one of Tony's students and these new murders are very similar to the ones he committed 30 years ago. He was released from prison as he was considered rehabilitated and has lost the use of both hands due to severe arthritis. Tony is convinced that MacAdam is their man, but he is quite shrewd and it will be very ...

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  3. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 1 - The Mermaids Singing (1)
    7.5/10(541 votes)

    #3 - The Mermaids Singing (1)

    S1:E1

    A police psychologist pursues a serial killer who tortures homosexual victims in increasingly gruesome ways.

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  4. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 2 - The Mermaids Singing (2)
    7.5/10(452 votes)

    #4 - The Mermaids Singing (2)

    S1:E2

    As Dr. Hill closes in on the homophobic psychopath, he almost falls victim to him, or her. Who can tell?

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  5. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 3 - Shadows Rising (1)
    7.5/10(411 votes)

    #5 - Shadows Rising (1)

    S1:E3

    Dr. Hill strives to deduce the connection between the bodies of two teenage girls dumped in a lake and the motives for their murder.

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  6. Wire in the Blood Season 5 Episode 2 - Nocebo
    7.5/10(296 votes)

    #6 - Nocebo

    S5:E2

    Tony Hill and DI Alex Fielding find themselves investigating the ritualistic murder and mutilation of children. It becomes apparent to Tony that the perpetrators are casting voodoo-like spells on a variety of victims. The investigation reveals several possible suspects including a so-called preacher, Dr. Kingston and a brute of building contractor whose building site is shut down when a young boy's heart is found buried there. The power of suggestion begins to affect several of the team, including DC Paula McIntyre who finds herself hospitalized from a strange ...

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  7. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 5 - From the Defeated (1)
    7.5/10(218 votes)

    #7 - From the Defeated (1)

    S6:E5

    Two young men are found murdered, the only connection being that skin from one of them is found under the other's fingernails. As other bodies are found, Tony deduces that a sadistic gay murderer is abducting white boys and forcing them to kill each other. Meanwhile Michael Bryant, the cannibal killer whom Tony helped to put away, sends him a message from the secure unit where he is incarcerated, telling Tony that he is planning to escape and will see him soon.

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  8. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 4 - Shadows Rising (2)
    7.6/10(360 votes)

    #8 - Shadows Rising (2)

    S1:E4

    Dr. Hill pieces together the convoluted history of a formerly retired serial killer and the whereabouts of the latest victim the killer abducted.

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  9. Wire in the Blood Season 2 Episode 3 - Right to Silence
    7.6/10(318 votes)

    #9 - Right to Silence

    S2:E3

    Newly promoted to Detective Chief Inspector, Carol investigates a murder which seems to bear the hallmark of gang boss Gavin Cochran. However Cochran is behind bars for murder and could not have done it. Carol asks Tony to work out any links between the two slayings, leading to the arrest of Cochran's brother George. But there is a fight during which George ends up in a coma. Gavin is released from prison for a compassionate visit, during which another killing takes place, allowing Tony to test his theory and trap the murderer.

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  10. Wire in the Blood Season 2 Episode 4 - Sharp Compassion
    7.6/10(314 votes)

    #10 - Sharp Compassion

    S2:E4

    The suspicious death of a hospital patient leads to post mortems being conducted on other patients who supposedly died of natural causes but now appear to have been murdered. Tony suspects the killer may be a person who believes they are releasing the victims from pain by their actions, guided by religious motives. However Islamic terrorists are also suspected, leading to the involvement of MI5. Carol is under scrutiny and needs Tony's help to keep her job.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Wire in the Blood Season 4 Episode 1 - Time to Murder and Create
    7.6/10(330 votes)

    #11 - Time to Murder and Create

    S4:E1

    When a rapist who was convicted on Tony's evidence is released Tony appears to be discredited. To make matters worse Carol has left for South Africa without even saying goodbye to him. He offers his help to her successor, Alex, another female officer, when a number of young women are found dead, their bodies buried in fields. Tony relates this to a sado-masochistic Internet site used by the murderer to lure his victims to their fate by playing, and then preying, on their sexual fantasies.

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  12. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 6 - From the Defeated (2)
    7.6/10(196 votes)

    #12 - From the Defeated (2)

    S6:E6

    An Asian man is killed but the pattern is different to the serial killings of the white boys which appears to have stopped. However, Ellie, a young widow, is abducted and, in the search to find her, Tony looks for comparisons with the other murders. Bryant, claiming that he has found God, asks for an audience with the secure unit's chaplain, whom he then kills, making his escape in the chaplain's robes.

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  13. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 5 - Justice Painted Blind (1)
    7.7/10(351 votes)

    #13 - Justice Painted Blind (1)

    S1:E5

    Dr. Hill tries to determine if the murders of two young girls were done by the same person.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Wire in the Blood Season 2 Episode 1 - Still She Cries
    7.7/10(392 votes)

    #14 - Still She Cries

    S2:E1

    Tony's patient, the child killer Maggie, is on the verge of revealing where she buried her victims, but Tony and the police are distracted by a serial murder case involving the roommate of one of his students.

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  15. Wire in the Blood Season 3 Episode 3 - Nothing But the Night
    7.7/10(285 votes)

    #15 - Nothing But the Night

    S3:E3

    Dr. Tony Hill has his hands full. His principal interest is in solving a string of murders where he can find no apparent connection. A child molester, a divorced woman and an elderly pensioner are all violently killed and while there are a few similarities, the cases suggests that different personalities are at work. He begins to decipher the motives when he realizes that there are two killers working together, alternating their kills. Tony also finds that a woman he's met on an airplane is stalking him and developing a whole fantasy life around him. DCI Carol Jordan ...

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  16. Wire in the Blood Season 4 Episode 3 - Hole in the Heart
    7.7/10(301 votes)

    #16 - Hole in the Heart

    S4:E3

    Tony Hill assists the police in their investigation of a bizarre series of murders. In each case the victims - a property developer, a bishop, a judge - were brutally killed and the killers then immediately committed suicide. Tony thinks there is a connection to the Freemasons, but then realizes that they are dealing with a religious sect that glorifies suicide. He knows from the profile that the head of the sect will be a white male and from the religious symbolism that he will have six disciples, but who are they and how will they find this needle in a haystack?

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  17. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 6 - Justice Painted Blind (2)
    7.8/10(329 votes)

    #17 - Justice Painted Blind (2)

    S1:E6

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    Director:Unknown
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  18. Wire in the Blood Season 3 Episode 4 - Synchronicity
    7.8/10(289 votes)

    #18 - Synchronicity

    S3:E4

    A sniper is at work and Tony Hill is having trouble profiling him. The killer leaves a playing card at each site but there is no apparent connection among the victims. As the deaths rise, people are walking the streets in fear, the media is in a frenzy and DCI Carol Jordan is under extreme pressure to solve the case. Tony has a bigger problem however when a medical exam reveals he has a brain tumor that is growing rapidly and is likely malignant.

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  19. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 7 - The Dead Land (1)
    7.8/10(202 votes)

    #19 - The Dead Land (1)

    S6:E7

    Another serial killer is at work. This one kills homeless men by stabbing them through the heart but a bizarre ritual is also at work because the bodies are bathed and wrapped up in paper before they are left around the town's business area. Alex is called away and her place taken by the young Oxbridge graduate Hall,of whom Tony is initially suspicious but he turns out to have a psychology degree and to be a big fan of Tony's work. A more sinister fan,clearly Bryant,is leaving 'presents' on Tony's door-step.

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  20. Wire in the Blood Season 3 Episode 1 - Redemption
    7.9/10(329 votes)

    #20 - Redemption

    S3:E1

    Tony Hill and the police search for a serial killer who has resurfaced after five years time and targets children from abusive homes. DCI Jordan is in hospital after being mugged and hit by a car.

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  21. Wire in the Blood Season 4 Episode 4 - Wounded Surgeon
    7.9/10(286 votes)

    #21 - Wounded Surgeon

    S4:E4

    When a young woman is raped and murdered after being kidnapped from a nightclub, Tony Hill is convinced that Jason Eglee is responsible. Ten years previously Tony had got him to confess to the rape of Tracy Bradshaw in what was Tony's first case working for the police. Eglee was released on parole, against Tony's advice, only three weeks before the most recent crime. When a crusading journalist questions Tony's interrogation technique and pushes for Eglee's original conviction to be overturned, DNA testing proves the man is innocent. The evidence notwithstanding, Tony...

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  22. Wire in the Blood Season 5 Episode 3 - The Names of Angels
    7.9/10(275 votes)

    #22 - The Names of Angels

    S5:E3

    The police investigate a series of rapes and murder of young, professional women in the Bradford area. After attacking them, he dresses the victim in a previous victims clothes and leaves their ID on the body. As the investigation continues, they learn from DNA that the man is responsible for at least seven murders over the years, but that he has never been arrested and as such, are unable to identify him. In a separate case, a former patient who has run away from his care home, Jack, contacts Tony. As a child, Jack killed his family and the police are concerned that ...

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  23. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 3 - Fall the Shadow (1)
    7.9/10(232 votes)

    #23 - Fall the Shadow (1)

    S6:E3

    Tony attends a conference of psychologists, where he is a guest speaker and where he meets an old friend Rachel White, another delegate. He has drinks with her in her room but leaves before having sex. Next morning she is found dead and he was the last person to see her alive, marking him as a suspect. Then another psychologist is also murdered whilst Alex investigates a serial killer whose targets are prostitutes.

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  24. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 4 - Fall the Shadow (2)
    7.9/10(211 votes)

    #24 - Fall the Shadow (2)

    S6:E4

    Tony is allowed to assist in the investigations. He sees the murders as ritualistic as 'Power Not Truth' was written in the dead doctors' blood. He also begins to see a connection with the murders of the prostitutes and, against Alex's advice, offers himself as bait to trap the killer.

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  25. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 8 - The Dead Land (2)
    7.9/10(211 votes)

    #25 - The Dead Land (2)

    S6:E8

    Another serial killer is at work. This one kills homeless men by stabbing them through the heart but a bizarre ritual is also at work because the bodies are bathed and wrapped up in paper before they are left around the town's business area. Alex is called away and her place taken by the young Oxbridge graduate Hall,of whom Tony is initially suspicious but he turns out to have a psychology degree and to be a big fan of Tony's work. A more sinister fan,clearly Bryant,is leaving 'presents' on Tony's door-step.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Darkness of Light" is the worst rated episode of "Wire in the Blood". It scored 7.2/10 based on 363 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/19/2004. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Bad Seed".