The Best Episodes Written By David Gilman

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Dead End

   S14:E210/19/2008

   A bus driver and conductress are abducted. Frost is unhappy at being paired with DS Marsh, who made a complaint about him 15 years before.

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Mistaken Identity (2)

   S9:E21/28/2002

   Background enquiries turn up two previous deaths, which appear related to the case. But their initial suspect, armed bank-robber Charlie Lehman, turns out to have died in prison over a year earlier. As they work to profile the killer they are hunting, Frost starts to get close to Hartley personally as well as professionally, though neither realises just how closely she is linked to the case until it is almost too late. Frost has a race against time to find where she is being held.

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Hidden Truth

   S10:E11/19/2003

   A vital witness to a gangland killing goes missing before she can give evidence in court, and frost finds himself under pressure to find her and her son before a hitman can get to them. Frost thinks he has won the lottery but he has lost his ticket!

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Near Death Experience

   S12:E19/25/2005

   The murder of a widow soon gives Frost a chance to prove his worth again, but the investigation only reveals an intriguing web of deceit, and it isn't until a forensic psychologist joins the team that they realise a serial killer is at work.

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   8.7/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Benefit of the Doubt (2)

   S8:E21/15/2001

   With the railroad murder solved, Frost tries to come to terms with having a previously unknown daughter. Detective Reid is sent to look for contraband cigarettes, but is found nearly dead on a public toilet. Was he high, or did Frost's lookalike have anything to do with it? Meanwhile, Frost eliminates suspect after suspect in the surgeon murder, and ends up saving several lives.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Mistaken Identity (1)

   S9:E11/27/2002

   A body with no identification is found in a local reservoir, and a couple fall victim to a brutal killer in their own home. Frost is assigned a new, female, West Indian detective constable, Ronni Lonnegan, and gets off to a bad start with a few racially-insensitive remarks. He then reluctantly accepts the help of a psychological profiler, psychiatrist Pam Hartley, whom he met at a conference. Meanwhile, there is an inspection of Denton Police underway, and Frost's old-fashioned methods are not endearing him to the inspector, so Supt Mullett is forced to give him more support than usual.

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   8.3/10(2 votes)

   #7 - Benefit of the Doubt (1)

   S8:E11/14/2001

   While Denton's female population has to be on the lookout for a con man posing as Frost, Frost himself has more dire concerns: a woman found dead by the railroad. To top it off, Frost has to work with a soon-to-be wash-out with possible drug problems. Then, a disliked surgeon goes missing, and turns up dead.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Held In Trust

   S10:E39/14/2003

   DI Frost pursues a paedophile suspected of abducting a 10-year-old boy from a Denton Town football match. Initially, Frost is unsure whether the lad simply ran away or is genuinely the victim of a kidnapping, but when the boy is found dead and a man is found dead following a hit and run incident, the identity of the latter creates a frightening link to the missing child. When a second child turns up dead in a deserted quarry, Frost is in a desperate race against time to stop a third child being murdered. While Frost is contending with this a note arrives from a secret admirer and Mullet tries to push Frost into a promotion he doesn't want.

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   5.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - Another Life

   S11:E110/26/2003

   After a seven-month long suspension, Frost is back on the job. His first case is a floater in Denton River, with £6000 in his pockets. The man also carries with him a list with four sets of mysterious numbers, and the keys to two different cars. The local dance competion is the venue for another drama: a missing con man who recently switched dance partners, and a woman with a Hollywood name and a terrible temper - who keeps on ordering new fridges for her dance partners... But Frost is more interested in getting his teeth back in order after a particularly vicious lollipop.

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