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"Wire in the Blood" (2002): Season 2: Episode 4 -- A serial killer is at large, and is targeting patients at Bradfield hospital. Carol asks Tony to consider possible motives, while her own investigation is hampered by the interference of an officer from MI5.
"Wire in the Blood" (2002): Season 2: Episode 3 -- A murder bears the hallmarks of a gang boss who is already serving time in prison. Carol suspects that he ordered the killing from jail, but Tony is unable to assist, and her conduct of the investigation threatens her recent promotion.
"Wire in the Blood" (2002): Season 2: Episode 2 -- Bodies are discovered at the Norton Hotel during the digging of new foundations, suggesting that the murderer has been operating across five centuries.
"Wire in the Blood" (2002): Season 2: Episode 1 -- Dr. Tony Hill is working with Maggie, a patient of his for over 5 years, to locate where she buried her victims. But he finds his work with the police compromised when he allows one of his own pupils to help with the investigation.
"Wire in the Blood" (2002): Season 1: Episode 6 -- An 11-year-old-girl is abducted and a young woman is strangled. DS Merrick is quickly convinced that a known paedophile, acquitted of murder three years before, has struck again, leading to a clash with Tony Hill.

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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | unknown full episode list
Release Date:
20 August 2002 (Denmark) more
Tagline:
Enter the mind of a serial killer. more
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
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CBS/DreamWorks Hook Up For Wire In The Blood
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Cast

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Robson Green ... Dr. Tony Hill (25 episodes, 2002-2008)
Mark Letheren ... DS Kevin Geoffries / ... (23 episodes, 2002-2008)
Mark Penfold ... Dr. Ashley Vernon (19 episodes, 2002-2007)
Emma Handy ... DC Paula McIntyre / ... (18 episodes, 2003-2008)
Hermione Norris ... DCI Carol Jordan (14 episodes, 2002-2005)
Simone Lahbib ... DI Alex Fielding / ... (11 episodes, 2006-2008)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
La fureur dans le sang (Belgium: French title) (France) (Switzerland: French title) [fr]
Fureur dans le sang (Canada: French title) [fr]
Hautnah - Die Methode Hill (Germany) [de]
Loodud tapjaks (Estonia) [et]
Mord i sinnet (Sweden) [sv]
Murha mielessä (Finland) [fi]
Plumb din sînge (Romania) [ro]
Raseri i blodet (Denmark) [da]
Rastros da Maldade (Brazil) (cable TV title) [pt]
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Runtime:
50 min (6 episodes) | 69 min (8 episodes)
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Certification:
Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:MA (DVD rating)

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The plastic "blue bag" that Tony Hill is often seen with was gleaned from Robson Green's research for Wire in the Blood, which involved spending time with revered criminal psychologist Julian Boon, who Green describes in part as an "extraordinary, intelligent, nice guy who carried his life in a blue bag and travelled on a double-decker bus. No-one looked at him twice." more
Quotes:
Dr. Tony Hill: A cartoon? That's an odd choice.
DC Paula McIntyre: What's odd about it? If you show violence on TV it promotes violence.
Dr. Tony Hill: Oh yeah? What shows did Jack the Ripper watch?
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Regarding the title, 22 September 2008
Author: janegrass from UK

The title "Wire in the Blood" is a phrase from T.S. Eliot's poem "Burnt Norton", which is the first of his "Four Quartets": "The trilling wire in the blood/Sings below inveterate scars/Appeasing long forgotten wars." The poem is at least in part about the relationship between the longing for spiritual peace and "the release from action and suffering"; it touches on these ideas as part of a Christian and also a Buddhist world view. I haven't read the books that the series is based on, so I cannot say how the author originally put the title in context (if at all.)

The phrases that follow "wire in the blood" in the poem are significant to the title's meaning for this show, I think, with the invocation of scarring, forgetting and violence.

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