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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(393 votes)

    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.

    Director:Nicholas Laughland
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Wire in the Blood Season 3 Episode 2 - Bad Seed
    7.4/10(311 votes)

    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 ...

    Director:Alex Pillai
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 1 - The Mermaids Singing (1)
    7.5/10(588 votes)

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 3 - Shadows Rising (1)
    7.5/10(441 votes)

    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.

    Director:Nicholas Laughland
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Wire in the Blood Season 5 Episode 2 - Nocebo
    7.5/10(316 votes)

    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 ...

    Director:Paul Whittington
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 5 - From the Defeated (1)
    7.5/10(236 votes)

    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.

    Director:Declan O'Dwyer
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 2 - The Mermaids Singing (2)
    7.6/10(488 votes)

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 4 - Shadows Rising (2)
    7.6/10(389 votes)

    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.

    Director:Nicholas Laughland
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Wire in the Blood Season 2 Episode 3 - Right to Silence
    7.6/10(346 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Wire in the Blood Season 2 Episode 4 - Sharp Compassion
    7.6/10(340 votes)

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Wire in the Blood Season 4 Episode 1 - Time to Murder and Create
    7.6/10(351 votes)

    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.

    Director:Andy Goddard
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 6 - From the Defeated (2)
    7.6/10(211 votes)

    S6:E6

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 5 - Justice Painted Blind (1)
    7.7/10(378 votes)

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Wire in the Blood Season 2 Episode 1 - Still She Cries
    7.7/10(419 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Wire in the Blood Season 4 Episode 3 - Hole in the Heart
    7.7/10(321 votes)

    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?

    Director:A.J. Quinn
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Wire in the Blood Season 1 Episode 6 - Justice Painted Blind (2)
    7.8/10(358 votes)

    S1:E6

    Dr Hill is convinced the attacks bear the hallmarks of a different killer - until a bizarre link suggests more deaths will follow.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Wire in the Blood Season 3 Episode 3 - Nothing But the Night
    7.8/10(311 votes)

    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 ...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Wire in the Blood Season 3 Episode 4 - Synchronicity
    7.8/10(310 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 7 - The Dead Land (1)
    7.8/10(217 votes)

    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.

    Director:Philip John
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Wire in the Blood Season 3 Episode 1 - Redemption
    7.9/10(356 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Wire in the Blood Season 4 Episode 4 - Wounded Surgeon
    7.9/10(306 votes)

    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...

    Director:Peter Hoar
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Wire in the Blood Season 5 Episode 3 - The Names of Angels
    7.9/10(292 votes)

    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 ...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Richard Standeven

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  23. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 3 - Fall the Shadow (1)
    7.9/10(252 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard Curson Smith
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 4 - Fall the Shadow (2)
    7.9/10(228 votes)

    S6:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Wire in the Blood Season 6 Episode 8 - The Dead Land (2)
    7.9/10(224 votes)

    S6:E8

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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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 393 votes. Directed by Nicholas Laughland and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/19/2004. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Bad Seed".