The Body Farm - Season 1 (2011)

The team is called to Langdon Vale women's prison following the death of inmate Beth Fox. She was hit on the back of the head and Hale suspects convict Nicole Henderson,the ex-girlfriend of Beth's current lover Tess Williams,imprisoned for trying to kill her terminally ill sister Caitlin. Matters are complicated when Eve discovers that Beth had cholera and Tess,also infected,escapes to visit Caitlin. Whilst the source of the cholera,laboratory testing,is traced,Tess has to be found before she spreads the disease.

Human rights lawyer Richard Warner is burned to death in his living room and on his charred corpse Eve finds the DNA of Joseph Marial,his former client,deported back to Sudan after being found guilty of robbery,who has illegally reentered Britain. Rosa believes Mariel was innocent,convicted because the court disliked Warner's cavalier style,but Warner's cash-strapped son Nick,who also visited his father before he died,accuses the Sudanese of murder. Eve discovers that the dead man was suffering from the onset of dementia and has cause to wonder if his death was not an...

Security guard Ray Quinn is murdered in what appears to be a failed robbery at the custom car garage owned by the Flannery brothers, who are his cousins but seem reluctant to admit kinship. Eve however believes he was killed elsewhere and his body brought to the garage. Evidence suggests his face was scratched by a woman and Quinn was indeed convicted of kidnapping a girl some years earlier. Now another girl has been abducted and Eve links Quinn to the house where she died. Quinn's gypsy relatives close ranks against Hale but Eve has a one to one with the lad's mother...