(Pic: William Gaminara as Professor Leo Dalton; Emilia Fox as Dr Nikki Alexander and Tom Ward as Dr Harry Cunningham)Top forensic drama kicks off on BBC Entertainment on August 16.
“Whatever you do, don’t miss Silent Witness, it’s one of the finest crime dramas you’ll get to see on television”, says artSMart editor, Caroline Smart.
The ten episode Series 13 of Silent Witness premieres on August 16 at 21h30 on BBC Entertainment (channel 120 on DStv) and will continue every Monday at 21h30. An added attraction is that much of the series was shot in Cape Town.
Forensic pathologists Professor Leo Dalton (William Gaminara), Dr Harry Cunningham (Tom Ward) and Dr Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) return in one of the BBC’s most successful and longest-running crime dramas. Every corpse tells a story - who they were, how they lived and, most importantly, how they died. Their history is there to be discovered and the body is the key to unlocking the story.
In this series, Leo comes under suspicion for fraud when he cannot produce his post mortem notes for a case he apparently worked on and, before he can prove his innocence, he is violently attacked. While Leo lies in a coma, Nikki helps the police with the investigation of a murder – all evidence points to the dead man’s wife, who is now Harry’s lover.
Nikki and Harry end up on opposite sides of a high profile case involving the suspicious death of a wealthy banker in her Hampstead home. Her husband says she fell down the stairs, but the police think he beat her to death. Despite promising otherwise, Nikki and Harry become increasingly competitive as their interpretations of the evidence clashes.
Elsewhere, Nikki returns to her childhood home of Cape Town when she is hired as a consultant forensic anthropologist by a private investigation firm to assist in the search for the remains of five young men who disappeared in the mid-80’s. Will she be tempted to make her move to South Africa permanent?
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