Before slaying and scalping his victim -- always a young woman -- a spooky serial killer e-mails his intentions to tabloid reporter David Laney (James Nesbitt). With Laney's help, the OSC lays a trap, and D.C. Rivers (Shaun Dingwall) witnesses an abduction in progress. Trailing the killer to an abandoned shack, Rivers is joined by Creegan (Robson Green) who confronts the psychopath, poised to slit the throat of his next victim.

Episode 2
Originally aired Thursday, January 20, 2000
Encore presentation Thursday, November 22, 2001, at 10 pm.

Though serial killer Emerson (Tony Curran) is behind bars, his murder spree somehow continues. Is it a copycat killer or an accomplice? Creegan (Robson Green), Taylor (Nicola Walker), and Rivers (Shaun Dingwall) must turn to Emerson himself for help, and he names a trivial but bone-chilling price. Unwittingly, Taylor's new love affair with reporter David Laney (James Nesbitt) is lining her up as the next victim.

Episode 3
Originally aired Thursday, January 27, 2000
Encore presentation Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 10 pm.

Lovingly washed, white-shrouded corpses are turning up across Europe, each with a neat hole in the skull. When the homicides hit Britain, the OSC gets the case, and Creegan (Robson Green) learns the victims all knew each other in Bosnia, where they worked for a relief agency. He also catches a glimpse of the probable killer captured on a security camera -- a man everyone thought was dead.

Episode 4
Originally aired Thursday, February 3, 2000
Encore presentation Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 10 pm.

Serial killer Jim Keller (Philip Jackson) has given police the slip and is widening his scope of victims to include anyone who gets in his way. Eager to prove himself after past mistakes, Rivers (Shaun Dingwall) throws himself into the investigation -- and into the killer's line of fire.

Episode 5
Originally aired Thursday, February 10, 2000
Encore presentation Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 10:30 pm.

Annie Jordan (Jill Halfpenny) kidnaps the child she says was coerced from her in a baby-brokering scheme. Suspecting links to an international pedophile ring, Taylor (Nicola Walker) and Rivers (Shaun Dingwall) pose as a childless couple in a sting to nab the ringleaders. Meanwhile, Creegan (Robson Green) is becoming smitten with Annie.

Episode 6
Originally aired Thursday, February 17, 2000
Encore presentation Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 10 pm.

While tracking an international pedophile ring, Creegan (Robson Green) finds his own children targeted in a revenge attack by a distraught father (John Duttine) who blames Creegan for his daughter's death. Meanwhile, Taylor (Nicola Walker) goes undercover to a kid-for-sale orphanage in Albania, risking her job when she returns with a little girl. As the drama reaches its climax, Creegan's affair with Annie Jordan (Jill Halfpenny) comes to a tragic end.

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