The Best Episodes of Murder City

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   8.1/10(85 votes)

   #1 - Death of a Ladies' Man

   S2:E34/19/2006

   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.

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   8.0/10(97 votes)

   #2 - Wives and Lovers

   S2:E14/5/2006

   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.

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   7.8/10(74 votes)

   #3 - Game Over

   S2:E44/26/2006

   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.

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   7.5/10(112 votes)

   #4 - Happy Families

   S1:E34/1/2004

   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.

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   7.5/10(98 votes)

   #5 - Mr Right

   S1:E44/8/2004

   A 25-year-old woman and her lover are found dead in a hotel room, shot through the head with 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.

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   7.5/10(88 votes)

   #6 - Big City Small World

   S1:E54/15/2004

   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.

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   7.5/10(89 votes)

   #7 - Nothing Sacred

   S1:E64/22/2004

   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.

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   7.5/10(82 votes)

   #8 - Just Seventeen

   S2:E24/12/2006

   A teenaged 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, but is there a connection?

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   7.4/10(117 votes)

   #9 - Under The Skin

   S1:E23/24/2004

   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.

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    7.0/10(155 votes)

    #10 - The Critical Path

    S1:E13/17/2004

    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.

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