George Ormond
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Harry and Nikki spend a day visiting an air show in which an old school friend of Harry's is flying, but after a fun day together, they see a military helicopter crash into a crowded detention center for failed asylum seekers. The Ministry of Defense are called in but Harry has a personal interest in the case.
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The search for Liam resumes. Nikki's loyalty towards her former mentor, Noel Hopkins, is severely tested when past allegations of sexual misconduct from a former student surfaces. Leo and Harry refuse to give up their search for Liam, as they try to identify and locate a toxic chemical, which was found in both bodies. If they can find the source of the chemical, they may find where Liam is being held.
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When Rachel Harrington's bones are found in Zambia, her expat father and local mining engineer, Stephen, asks the team to come out to investigate. Rachel had been accusing the government of a health cover-up, and an initial examination shows evidence of multiple stab wounds. But as the team investigates further, it seems the government weren't the only ones to have been rubbed up the wrong way by Rachel.
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The death of a second Hasidic boy, Chaim, convinces Harry they are looking for a Jewish killer, but without concrete evidence the police are reluctant to upset an already fragile relationship with the community. But when Binyomin appears to take the law into his own hands, Harry makes a shocking discovery that threatens to strain relations even further.
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When fragments of skeleton are found, it seems clear that it is that of a girl who went missing two years before - until Nikki establishes that the bones actually belong to two people. Meanwhile, when a woman dies from a fall, the life assurance company refuses to pay out, claiming she was drunk.
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When the half-naked body of a 12-year-old is discovered floating in a drainage ditch near his school, the team is called in, bringing Nikki back in contact with one of her former teachers, Noel Hopkins, now headmaster. During Harry's preliminary examination they find clear signs of abuse, and when the police discover the victim was last seen with another boy, Liam, who has also gone missing, they fear he may have been abducted.
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A picture of the lives of the two girls' whose bodies were found together emerges. While DI Philip Mays is convinced it was a suicide pact, Nikki believes she knows who was really responsible for the girl's deaths. Unable to speak to the police, she seeks out the one man she thinks she can trust.
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Nikki visits the only key eyewitness, Isra, the teenage sister of one of the suspects who insists her brother is innocent. Nikki is appalled by the harshness of her treatment, and the team begin to seriously suspect that the truth is being covered up. Meanwhile, Rhys is on the run, and Harry is shocked when he discovers the identity of the unknown victim.
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When the badly decomposed body of a Hasidic man is discovered on disused wasteland, Harry is tasked to investigate his death, and to treat the community with care. Everything points towards a brutal anti-Semitic murder by a Polish laborer - but when the time of death contradicts his wife's last sighting, Harry becomes suspicious. Leo, meanwhile, is trying to unravel the events leading to the death of an Australian backpacker at a party.
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Harry employs the help of his medical student, Holly Farr, with his latest case - the post-mortem of a woman found dumped on the side of the road with her face skillfully removed. With no DNA or missing persons match, Nikki's skills are called upon to reconstruct the victim's face. But the team are at a loss to explain the killers' motive in such a brutal act.
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When the body of another man is found with connections to the same Catholic boys' school where a priest died, Nikki starts piecing together a theory. Meanwhile, Leo faces hostility at a community meeting when he is attacked for racial bias over the ritual killing case.
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With his protégé dead and the team themselves in danger, Harry is reeled into the murky world of Russian oligarch Oleg Kovik. Kovik claims Fran Price's murder was ordered by the Russian Government and Leonid Polyak, and that he's the next target. Distrustful of the police and of Kovik's intentions, Harry becomes determined to find the missing clues that will reveal the truth.
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When Nikki attends a car crash she is horrified to learn that she knew the victim, a woman convicted for four years for her part in a murder - on Nikki's evidence. She allegedly goaded her boyfriend into committing the crime, but now the debate over the original finding is raised again, very publicly.