Murder City (TV series)
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| Murder City | |
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| Format | Crime/Drama |
| Created by | Robert Murphy (writer) |
| Starring | Amanda Donohoe Kris Marshall |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Andy Harries |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ITV |
| Original run | (UK) March 18, 2004 – April 26, 2006 |
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| Official website | |
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| TV.com summary | |
Murder City is a British police drama that centers on two mismatched detectives who scour London solving complex cases. Murder City premiered on March 18, 2004 on the ITV Network at 9pm. BBC America began airing the series on August 17, 2006. The show is currently being aired on Showcase.
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[edit] Cast
Amanda Donohoe plays the main character Detective Inspector Susan Alembic, who is perhaps the most talented DI in her department. She has been partnered up with amateur detective Luke Stone. Luke also provides some comic relief in the series.
Kris Marshall plays DS Luke Stone, partner of DI Susan Alembic, who is seen as an amateur detective in the eyes of his peers. DI Adrian Dumfries and DCI Sebastian Turner often if not always see him as an incompetent detective. However, he shows competence in every episode, coming up with some outrageous and at times, iron-clad theories as to how a crime took place.
Amber Agar plays Dr. Annie Parvez, a coroner who works in the same department as Susan and Luke. Annie often shows that she is attracted to Luke and still holds a grudge against him when he did not call her after a date they had months before.
Geff Francis stars as DI Adrian Dumfries, a black detective. He is one of the detectives who despises Luke and believes that he is an inept detective. But DI Adrian Dumfries is also known to make frequent mistakes in cases he handles.
Tim Woodward plays the hardass DCI Sebastian Turner.
[edit] Episodes
The following is a list and summary of the episodes that have aired the UK and in the US provided by TV.com
[edit] Series 1
| # | Title | Original airdate | Summary | |
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| 1 | The Critical Path | March 18, 2004 (UK) August 17, 2006 (US) |
When a 16-year-old girl disappears from her home, leaving a blood-spattered bedroom behind, Susan and Luke start trying to track down the missing teenager, hoping that she may still be alive. Meanwhile, the mysterious death of a City trader who is shot in the neck with an arrow proves a tough case to crack. | |
| 2 | Under the Skin | March 25, 2004 (UK) August 24, 2006 (US) |
When an unearthed skull opens a murder investigation, Stone orders a facial reconstruction of the skull and the photographs go to press, prompting a woman to come forward claiming that the face in the photo belongs to a man who raped and strangled her sister several years earlier. When Dumfries informs them that a different man was convicted of that murder, Stone and Alembic dig further and unearth a web of lies surrounding the previous investigation. | |
| 3 | Happy Families | April 1, 2004 (UK) August 31, 2006 (US) |
The butchered body of a woman is found in a rubbish dump and the investigation into her murder leads Susan and Luke onto the trail of a baby-smuggling operation based in the Ukraine. | |
| 4 | Mr. Right | April 8, 2004 (UK) September 21, 2006 (US) |
A 25-year-old woman and her lover are found dead in a hotel room, shot through the head with the same single bullet. The man, Alan Scobie, is identified as a notorious criminal on remand for manslaughter, but it isn't clear which of the two was the original target. | |
| 5 | Big City, Small World | April 15, 2004 (UK) September 14, 2006 (US) |
A wealthy Turkish businessman killed in a drive-by shooting at first appears to have been an unlucky casualty of a turf war between Kurds and Turks, until a pathologist's report reveals that he had died of a heart attack before being shot and had also been poisoned. | |
| 6 | Nothing Sacred | April 22, 2004 (UK) September 7, 2006 (US) |
The owner of a gallery specialising in Islamic art is discovered in the boot of a submerged car. Armed with a clue found in the dead man's flat, Alembic and Stone head for a casino, but their investigation is destined to end in further tragedy. |
[edit] Series 2
| # | Title | Original airdate | Summary |
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| 7 | Wives and Lovers | April 5, 2006 | A teenage couple kiss one another goodnight when the dead body of a woman is thrown from the top of an apartment block, killing the young man. DC Bain links the dead woman to a dating agency for married people, and DI Alembic goes undercover as a client. |
| 8 | Just Seventeen | April 12, 2006 | A teenage girl is found dead in her school with her wrists slashed, while a man has been tied to a tree and shot dead in the woods nearby. Stone and Alembic lead separate investigations. Is there a connection? |
| 9 | Death of a Ladie' Man | April 19, 2006 | DI Susan Alembic and DS Luke Stone investigate the sniper-shooting of a young man in his flat, while DCs Alison Bain and Frank Craven deal with a hit-and-run killing. |
| 10 | Game Over | April 26, 2006 (UK) October 19, 2006 (US) |
One young woman is strangled as she lets herself into her flat, while across town another wakes to find her boyfriend has been shot while she slept. |
[edit] DVD Release
On August 14, 2007, Murder City will be released on a four disc DVD box set by Image Entertainment.
