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Waking the Dead

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Waking the Dead	comment	British crime drama running from 2000 (pilot) to 2011 for nine series.It follows the activities of the Metropolitan Police's fictional Cold Case Squad, led by Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve), a man who likes to YELL AT PEOPLE.In each episode an old crime is discovered or rediscovered, sometimes because someone has been killed in the present day (if not, someone usually will be). The Cold Case Squad use modern forensic techniques to solve the unsolved cases. Well, that and Peter Boyd shouting at the suspects.The show contains dark subject matter and graphic scenes, which is why it is shown after the Watershed. "Contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing" is there for a reason- this show is full of potential Nightmare Fuel.Each story is 2 hours long (no ads), shown in two parts on consecutive days.A short lived spin-off aired after the show's conclusion. Entitled The Body Farm, it focused on Tara Fitzgerald' Dr. Eve Lockhart. In 2018, BBC Radio 4 aired The Unforgiven, a five-part audio prequel to Waking the Dead. Most of the original series leads reprised their roles, with the exception of Anthony Howell replacing Trevor Eve as Boyd.More character info- Contains spoilers.
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Waking the Dead / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Waking the Dead / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: DC Stella Goodman. A Frenchwoman whose usual (dyed) hair colour is red, she does look rather good in an armed officer uniform. Not forgetting feisty Mel Silver, Katarina Howard and Sarah Cavendish.
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Waking the Dead / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Waking the Dead / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Grace.
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Waking the Dead / int_21584c75	type	The Profiler
Waking the Dead / int_21584c75	comment	The Profiler: Grace.
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Waking the Dead / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Waking the Dead / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Serial-killer Linda Cummings from "Skins" and "Endgame" gets a special mention, although nearly all the serial killers in the show qualify with their devious manipulation of both their victims and the police. That said, not to be outdone, Boyd often retaliates with some manipulative bastardry of his own, most prominently displayed with creative and cunning interrogations (the shouting not withstanding). The longer the members of his team hang around Boyd, the more they pick up on his manipulation skills, and of course they try them out...
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Waking the Dead / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Waking the Dead / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Mel Silver after failing to be The Bait in the pilot and almost dying.
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Waking the Dead / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Waking the Dead / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Or rather her, with Stella Goodman's death by blood clot.
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Waking the Dead / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Waking the Dead / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Quite a number of the cases end horribly for everyone involved. This sometimes spills over onto the team as well, such as the season 4 finale.
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Waking the Dead / int_53bb70b2	type	Flashback
Waking the Dead / int_53bb70b2	comment	Flash Back: Sometimes to the point of overuse.
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Waking the Dead / int_54c6b2b6	type	Revisiting the Cold Case
Waking the Dead / int_54c6b2b6	comment	Revisiting the Cold Case: The premise of the series.
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Waking the Dead / int_5f261d88	type	Mood Lighting
Waking the Dead / int_5f261d88	comment	Mood Lighting: not so much in the first season, but as the series progresses more and more mood lighting makes its appearance according to different sets and scenes, accompanied by more shadows and dark contrast. The team's main office hasn't seen sunshine in years.
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Waking the Dead / int_60ac6ae4	type	The Lab Rat
Waking the Dead / int_60ac6ae4	comment	The Lab Rat: Eve Lockhart, with a collection of wonderful analysis tools that puts the CSI-verse to shame. Well, until the New York lot got that hologram corpse thing.
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Waking the Dead / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Waking the Dead / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Sure, it lasted nine seasons, but each of them only had eight or ten episodes (and each case covered two episodes!).
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Waking the Dead / int_6c1cc4b	type	Everyone Looks Sexier if French
Waking the Dead / int_6c1cc4b	comment	Everyone Looks Sexier if French: Stella is half-French and raised in that country.
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Waking the Dead / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Waking the Dead / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: "Burned Out"
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Waking the Dead / int_71642c70	type	Viewers Are Goldfish
Waking the Dead / int_71642c70	comment	Viewers Are Goldfish: About half of "Missing Persons" is made of flashbacks.
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Waking the Dead / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Waking the Dead / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: The victim in "Burned Out" was a soldier that came a bit touched from The Falklands War, then became a war reporter and went full over the edge after covering The Yugoslav Wars.
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Waking the Dead / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Waking the Dead / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse??: After season five Felix is never mentioned or appears again, being replaced by Eve. Katarina Howard also disappears after season eight. Realistic reasons are present, though. Felix probably left because of the chemical attack, and Katarina likely transferred.
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Waking the Dead / int_8a8f37f9	type	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement
Waking the Dead / int_8a8f37f9	comment	Artistic License – Law Enforcement: In one early case, a person of interest only agrees to speak to Boyd after he signs the Official Secrets Act, and it also comes up that Boyd will break it when he discusses it with a former police colleague. The problem? All police offers would be bound by the Official Secrets Act upon employment and sign a declaration to that effect, to say nothing of the additional security screening that would be done as part of onboarding and prior to employment (police would typically be expected to have at least the second highest level of clearance in the UK, someone like Boyd might well hold the highest). While it would be possible that certain information could only be given upon a higher level of security clearance, this takes weeks or months, not signing a piece of paper, and comes with a whole host of checks. note Technically, signing an Official Secrets Act declaration has no meaning, since a person is bound in law to obey it regardless, it is not a contract that can be opted out of. However, employees working with the government usually sign a declaration anyway to reinforce that they must uphold the terms of the act.
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Waking the Dead / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Waking the Dead / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The fourth season finale, "Shadowplay", in which we have the sudden, violent, gory death of one of the main characters.
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Waking the Dead / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Waking the Dead / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The whole main cast tends to be pretty well served in every episode, although Boyd is consistently the main character, but stick around long enough on the Cold Case Squad and you'll get one or two of these. Spence gets this in "Final Cut" and "Cold Fusion", Mel in "Fugue States", Grace in "Straw Dog" and "Solidarity", and Eve in "Pietà" and "Substitute".
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Waking the Dead / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Waking the Dead / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Boyd. He routinely bullies, harasses, manipulates, blackmails and threatens people during interrogation and he never has to pay for what he does or is punished for his actions (barring a very rare and transient slap on the wrist). He always gets the results he wants at the end of the day. He also never has any significant or long-term problems arise from the times he flaunts the law to get what he wants, or from the people he puts through hell during an investigation (to put this into perspective, Spencer breaking into someone's home without a warrant resulted in severe punishment, while Boyd's methods are viewed as simply "unorthodox"). Quite a few of the murderers were this as well, though the worst would probably be Adam Duke from the season 4 finale, whose actions directly result in the death of Mel Silver. But he ends up getting off with no punishment of any kind after killing his girlfriend, who was the only witness and evidence in the crime.
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Waking the Dead / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
Waking the Dead / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Discussed in "Thin Air", where Frankie mentions that she can't do this with a home video recording from the late 80s on a VHS tape. We'll gloss over the Omnidisciplinary Scientist aspect as well. Not that it stops Boyd lying about this to a suspect in the following scene, in any case.
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Waking the Dead / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Waking the Dead / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: In The Pilot, Boyd has a wife/partner and a young child, and Grace mentions having kids of her own. All of this was quickly dropped when the show was picked up for the first series.
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Waking the Dead / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Waking the Dead / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: In "Waterloo" Boyd is framed for team member Sarah Cavendish`s murder.
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Waking the Dead / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Waking the Dead / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: expect any nudity to come with a disturbing context, gory wounds, mutilation or death.
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Waking the Dead / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Waking the Dead / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The killer in the pilot.
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Waking the Dead / int_ce9da072	type	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
Waking the Dead / int_ce9da072	comment	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Averted through adlibbing and the style of direction.
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Waking the Dead / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Waking the Dead / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: "Skin", with little splashes of red in during some scenes.
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Waking the Dead / int_d1862907	type	Forensic Drama
Waking the Dead / int_d1862907	comment	Forensic Drama: the entire show revolves around the evidence and what can be proved forensically. Typically an episode starts off with new evidence (or the team looking again at old evidence), which, using state-of-the-art forensic technology and brilliant forensic technician(s), leads to new theories and leads which the team chase down with the aid of psychological profiling, resulting in more evidence which proves their deduction and reasoning.
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Waking the Dead / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Waking the Dead / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: "Missing Persons"
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Waking the Dead / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Waking the Dead / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: This show has a knack for portraying the hypocrisy within the system (both justice and governmental) and in individual characters without compromise or apology, making no excuses for someone's actions or playing Laser-Guided Karma. Even the main characters aren't immune to this, despite Boyd getting more leeway than anyone else; although the plot does sometime conspire to justify the main character's opinions/actions or soften them with a just outcome.
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Waking the Dead / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
Waking the Dead / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Boyd by definition, but Goodman gets deliberately used in this role on occasions.
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Waking the Dead / int_da76ae0b	type	Dead End Job
Waking the Dead / int_da76ae0b	comment	Dead End Job: After Mel Silver dies in season four anyone that replaces her ends up dead, including Stella Goodman and Sarah Cavendish. That job is cursed.
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Waking the Dead / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Stella.
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Waking the Dead / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Waking the Dead / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Sarah Cavendish (unwillingly).
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Waking the Dead / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Waking the Dead / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Grace, a rather old choice for this.
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Waking the Dead / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Waking the Dead / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: A female regular is tied up in three of the four stories of Season 8. In the other episode, it's a guest star and the female regular is killed!
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Waking the Dead / int_f6214be1	type	Hollywood Psych
Waking the Dead / int_f6214be1	comment	Hollywood Psych: despite being often technically correct when it comes to the characters discussing literal psychological theories, the application of criminal psychology in-story as well as the underlying psychosocial (and psychosexual) pathology of the killers can be anywhere from dramatized to outright incongruous or incorrect. To what degree the psychology is correctly used varies widely and seems to be an odd variation of Depending on the Writer (or director). For example, it can be anything from a simple case of the writer making incorrect assumptions about a character's psychology, to warping the underlying psychology to suit the plot.
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Waking the Dead / int_fb933192	comment	Car Cushion: In season four Mel Silver is pushed over a balcony of a high-rise flat by a deranged killer and lands on the windscreen of Boyd and Grace's car, dying instantly.
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