Code of a Killer
The story of Sir Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first use by DCS David Baker in catching a double murderer.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Cast:John Simm , Anna Madeley , David Threlfall , Lorcan Cranitch , Jaz Singh Deol , Andrew Tiernan , Robert Glenister , Lydia Rose Bewley , Tobias Burton-Rudge , Farzana Dua Elahe , Paul Copley , Ged Simmons , Shirley Dixon , Hannah Walters , Dorothy Atkinson , Jessica Woods , Neil Edmond , Darren Bancroft
S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1
In 1983, in a village outside Leicester, Lynda Mann is found raped and strangled to death. A year on, after an exhaustive but fruitless search for the killer, DCS David Baker is forced to scale down the investigation.
S1.E2 ∙ Episode #1.2
In a storm of publicity, the local teenager's released and the world's introduced to the idea of forensic DNA. But in the villages of Narborough and Enderby there's a real sense of fear: there's a murderer in their midst.
S1.E3 ∙ Episode #1.3
Possessing what they believe to be the killer's genetic "fingerprint," David and Alec initiate the world's first "DNA manhunt." But as thousands of samples are tested and costs continue to rise, David worries the operation will be shut down before they can find the killer.
