Sie gehen jedem Indiz nach, durchsuchen alle Winkel eines Lebens, tauchen ein in die Vergangenheit und finden, was niemals gefunden werden sollte – wenn es nach den Tätern gehen würde. Die fünfköpfige Londoner Spezialeinheit “Cold Case Unit” um Superintendent Peter Boyd aber handelt “Im Auftrag der Toten” und gibt sich erst zufrieden, wenn ein vermeintlich nicht mehr aufzuklärender Mordfall gelöst und der Täter einen Namen bekommen hat. Wenn es jemand schaffen kann, Mörder Jahre nach der Tat zu überführen, dann sind sie es. Mit modernster Ermittlungstechnik, forensischen wie psychologischen Verfahrensmethoden trotzen sie der Vergangenheit ihre Geheimnisse ab. Doch wer die Dinge nicht ruhen lässt, lebt gefährlich, denn die Täter sind noch auf freiem Fuß und könnten wieder zuschlagen, wenn man ihnen zu dicht auf die Spur kommt.
Avis de la communauté (2)
A decent cold case crime drama that is _majorly_ hampered by a thoroughly unlikable and unprofessional character in Peter Boyd (played by Trevor Eve, who doesn't appear to have ever met scenery that he wasn't happy to chew on). It's lucky they cast the ever-reliable Sue Johnston as Grace Foley, his number two, and the case-specific supporting casts were often filled with good actors. Worth watching if nothing better is on but I'm surprised it ran for as long as it did bearing in mind how awful Peter Boyd is. UPDATE: Having stuck with and now finished it, I would say that _Waking The Dead_ (unusually) got better in the later seasons - I think partly because Boyd became slightly less Boyd-like. I think the show would have benefited from more character development considering it ran for 9 series and yet we don't learn all that much about the main characters - [spoiler]especially Boyd, Grace, and Spencer who appear in it for the entire run[/spoiler].
Have to agree with Elliot. I'm at the end of S04 and I have to say the Boyd character is just oafish, corrupt, and very very unappealing. Sue is the bright light of this fairly interesting cold case prog. The multilayered stories are quite interesting even of they sometimes do not bear scrutiny well. Really I have not comes across such a gross character as Boyd and it is shocking the series survived so long with him barking nonsense non stop, but if you can get beyond that, there is some joy to be had from the story telling.