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Disc 1
Mind Over Matter
A university student is battered to death in a children’s playground; a day later, a nurse is killed in a similar fashion on the banks of the River Clyde. A therapy group seems to provide the link between the victims, and Reid goes undercover to investigate the members.

Cause and Effect
The murder of a young trophy wife casts suspicion on her husband, who claims he was aboard the family yacht at the time of her death. Then two other bodies turn up—one a marina worker, and the other a former policeman who had been trailing the dead woman.

Disc 2
A Taste of Money
Could a bad review really have led to the death of a restaurant critic? Or was there another reason for the journalist’s murder—perhaps something related to the large amounts of money he had mysteriously accumulated?

A Death Foretold
During confession, a man inquires of a parish priest the penance for what he is about to do. Shortly afterwards, three people are killed, with drug use seeming to connect them. But Reid’s investigation takes a different tack—back to the priest and the secret he can never reveal.

Disc 3
Do or Die
Burke and company investigate the apparent suicide of a top army recruit and the hit-style killing of two retired soldiers. However, Ross is hindered by the code of silence at the base, powerfully imposed by a hardnosed drill sergeant.

Running Out of Time
Burke suffers a bullet wound to the neck, and another officer is fatally shot. Tipped off by the dead cop’s partner, Ross, Reid, and Fraser focus their attentions on a small-time crook and his part in a smuggling operation.

Disc 4
Cause to Kill
The ritualized murder of a young woman echoes a case Burke investigated 18 years ago. For help, he turns to an old colleague: a forensic pathologist and now the celebrated author of a true-crime book. After a second murder, Burke believes that a copycat killer is on the loose.

Dead Man Walking
When an auto mechanic is sadistically burned to death and his business partner goes missing, the detectives puzzle over a motive. Suspicion falls on two ruthless brothers recently released from prison, but why would they want to kill someone with no criminal connections?

Packaging: Boxed set
Run Time: 551 minutes
Format: Widescreen
Number of discs: 4
Language: English
Subtitles: No
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: Yes
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Rating: NR

"Excellent"—TV Times(UK)

"Britain’s grittiest police series"—The Daily Mail(UK)

"…witty scripts rich with Glasgow patter…"—The Guardian(UK)

"Compelling… a mad cocktail of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and old Vincent Price movies"—The Sunday Times(UK)

"Gripping and intelligent"—The Daily Telegraph(UK)

"A guilty pleasure"—EInsiders

"…season's plots are multi-layered with good twists"—Pop Matters

BAFTA Awards Scotland, Special Contribution to Scottish Broadcasting Award Winner (2006)

BAFTA Awards Scotland, Audience Award Nomination for Most Popular Television Programme (2006)

BAFTA Scotland Award Nomination for Best Drama Programme (2005)

Television and Radio Industries Club Award Winner for TV Theme Music of the Year (1994)

Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award Winner for TV-Original Drama Serial (1993)

Disc 1
Episode 1:Penthouse & Pavement
After a drug-fueled sex party, a successful writer is found strangled in an alley next to an unconscious hooker. Then it emerges that a number of prostitutes have been attacked recently—and they all knew the dead man. Who wanted to kill the novelist, and why assault the women as well? Burke and his team dig deep to find the answers.

Episode 2:Atonement
Twenty years after a robbery that killed an innocent man, someone has started murdering the gang members responsible for the crime. Burke ignores the prime suspect in the case, seeming to let personal considerations get in the way of his better judgment. But for the chief inspector, it’s a matter of trusting his instinct and sticking to his guns.

Disc 2
Episode 3:Compensation
When a farmer fallen on hard times is burned to death, Burke and company head to the countryside to investigate. Tensions in the area run high between the locals and a pushy land developer from the city, and the murder of a second farmer with financial problems leaves everyone wondering who will be next.

Episode 4:Saints and Sinners
A high-flying lawyer is killed after a night of hard drinking at a restaurant with his law partner and a corner-cutting developer. Within days, the other two also become targets. The team search for an unidentified fourth man at the restaurant—and for a motive behind the shootings.

Disc 3
Episode 5:Puppet on a String
A series of stabbings with hypodermic syringes puts the detectives in pursuit of a most clinical killer. Their chief suspect is a disgraced doctor whose drug trials caused the death of a patient. But the man has a cast-iron alibi. The case takes a macabre turn when a local reporter starts receiving body parts in the mail.

Episode 6:The Wages of Sin
After a young woman overdoses, her death is quickly followed by two murders: a drug-ferrying cab driver and the woman’s father, a city jeweler. A lawyer who represents a local crime boss—and who introduced the victim to drugs—seems to be the link between the deaths. But there are others with secrets to hide and motives that lay closer to home.

Disc 4
Episode 7:The Ties That Bind
Why would someone fake the murder of a middle-aged librarian who had already died of natural causes? Could it be linked to the killing of a joyriding homeless teenager? The detectives follow the trail to a very unexpected place.

Episode 8:In Camera
An infatuated Ross covers for his new girlfriend when she finds a dead body in her country cottage. One lie leads to another, however, and soon the detective is in over his head. Meanwhile, an old murder case comes back to haunt him, but reopening it may provide the key to solving the current crime.

Packaging: Boxed set
Run Time: 559 minutes
Format: Widescreen
Number of discs: 4
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: Yes
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Rating: N/A

"…witty scripts rich with Glasgow patter…"—The Guardian(UK)

"Compelling… a mad cocktail of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and old Vincent Price movies"—The Sunday Times(UK)

"Gripping and intelligent"—The Daily Telegraph(UK)

"A guilty pleasure"—EInsiders

"…season's plots are multi-layered with good twists"—Pop Matters

Disc 1
Episode 1:Halfway House
When a young man is shot dead for no apparent reason, suspicion falls on one of the other residents of the halfway house where he lived. In this hostel for ex-cons, debtors, and the formerly homeless, everyone has a past they want to keep secret. But only one is prepared to kill to make sure it stays that way.

Episode 2:Hard Man
A murder disguised as an industrial accident leaves a mangled body and DCI Burke and his colleagues on the wrong trail. As the local shipyard workers begin to compete with Far East yards, DS Reid finds incriminating photographs of their boss that might prove a motive for murder.

Episode 3:Fade to Black
After a nurse is stabbed to death, the detectives arrest her regular taxi driver, a man with a history of stalking and assaulting women. But they also focus on a doctor who had an affair with the victim, not to mention a sideline channeling stolen pharmaceuticals to a drug dealer.

Disc 2
Episode 4:Blood Money
A boxing fight turns deadly post-bout when the promoter is murdered and the night’s takings stolen. After the ringside doctor is killed and a fight-fixing scam uncovered, Burke and company must act quickly to prevent further deaths.

Episode 5:New Life
A car bomb kills a pharmaceutical research scientist on his way to an important international conference. Could blame lie with the protestors who have been targeting him? Or maybe a grudge-holding scientist from a rival firm? Or was it an inside job?

Episode 6:Bad Blood
Two gangland killings leave Burke fearing that a turf war might erupt. Meanwhile, DS Reid worries that a new addition to their team may have her own agenda. Burke decides to give the newcomer room to run, betting that she will lead them straight to the killer.

Disc 3
Episode 7:An Eye for an Eye
A militant anti-abortion group comes under suspicion when two doctors at a women’s health clinic are brutally murdered. Drug links between the clinic and a local crime boss cast the net of suspicion wider, but DC Fraser believes that the motives for murder might lie closer to home.

Packaging: 3
Run Time: 398
Format: Widescreen
Number of discs:
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: Yes
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Rating: N/A

"Compelling… a mad cocktail of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and old Vincent Price movies"—The Sunday Times(UK)

"A guilty pleasure"—EInsiders

"…season's plots are multi-layered with good twists"—Pop Matters

BAFTA Awards Scotland, Special Contribution to Scottish Broadcasting Award Winner (2006)

BAFTA Awards Scotland, Audience Award Nomination for Most Popular Television Programme (2006)

BAFTA Scotland Award Nomination for Best Drama Programme (2005)

Television and Radio Industries Club Award Winner for TV Theme Music of the Year (1994)

Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award Winner for TV-Original Drama Serial (1993)