The Best Episodes Written By Mike Walden

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #1 - Hidden Treasures

   S2:E512/12/2022

   Mysterious happenings at Dolly's (shower left running, smoke alarms going off, money missing) has Pearl worried about her mother's state of mind. Meanwhile a burglary has Mike determined not to involve Pearl at any cost.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Someone Like Me

   S3:E611/25/2024

   A taxi driver turns up dead with a bullet through his head and an investment banker is nearly assassinated. Pearl goes to investigate who wants him dead.

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   7.0/10(5 votes)

   #3 - Civil War

   S1:E35/31/2021

   When a recently retired DCI is shot dead during an English Civil War reenactment, Mike immediately suspects the victim’s wife, but she hires Pearl to find out if someone could be targeting her, too. Pearl and Mike plan a date, but a miscommunication puts them at odds.

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   7.0/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Babylon

   S2:E111/28/2022

   While returning from visiting his young son, Kruz, in France, Whitstable local and former soldier Dan Tomlin crashes his car. When he wakes in the hospital, Dan learns that Kruz had been hiding in the trunk of his vehicle—and he"s now gone missing. With his ex-wife accusing him of kidnapping their son, Dan hires Pearl to track him down, and she teams up with Mike to find the missing boy.

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   6.8/10(5 votes)

   #5 - A Cup O' Kindness

   S1:E56/14/2021

   When a mother takes her daughter out for a boat ride despite the father’s wishes, the boat starts taking on water and the two need to be rescued. Was it an accident, or were they targeted? Pearl investigates while Mike tries to enjoy his time off from police duty in the days before New Year’s Eve.

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   6.6/10(5 votes)

   #6 - The Man on the Blue Plaque

   S1:E66/21/2021

   A 30-year-old skeleton washes up on the shore, and the victim has a very personal connection to Pearl; Pearl's budding romance with Mike is threatened when he identifies a suspect close to home.

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   6.5/10(4 votes)

   #7 - The Gumshoe and the Femme Fatale

   S2:E412/5/2022

   When 1970s movie icon Zelda St John changes her will, leaving her fortune to her housekeeper, Natalia, the young woman seeks out Pearl, fearing that Zelda's family might hurt her. Not long afterward, Zelda is found unconscious at her home, attacked with a croquet mallet, and Natalia disappears. Clashing over who they believe is responsible, Mike and Pearl lead separate investigations.

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   5.5/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Girl, Whitstable Beach

   S3:E110/21/2024

   After a young mother vanishes for seven years, she resurfaces on Whitstable Beach, leaving Pearl determined to uncover where she's been and her reasons for returning.

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   5.4/10(7 votes)

   #9 - Episode 5

   S3:E52/16/2021

   Her stalker's latest threat leaves Marcella suspicious of Frank. After recognizing one of Bobby's abductors in police records, she tracks him down.

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    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Oysters Kilpatrick

    S3:E311/4/2024

    Just as Pearl allows herself a luxury weekend away with Tom, a food critic drops dead in the Whitstable Pearl. Will she come home or stay with Tom?

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    5.0/10(6 votes)

    #11 - Night Terrors

    S2:E211/28/2022

    Laid up at home with a broken ankle, Mike passes time by observing his neighbors in the complex across the way. After witnessing one man"s violent night terrors, Mike becomes convinced that his supposed episodes are part of a plot to murder his wife. When Mike"s police colleagues dismiss his concerns, he hires Pearl to do the legwork he can"t.

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