Show Guide: 'Above Suspicion'

Synopsis: From award-winning writer Lynda La Plante, Above Suspicion follows the detective careers of DC Anna Travis (Kelly Reilly, Yellowstone) and her police partner DCI James Langton (Ciaran Hinds, Game of Thrones) as they investigate shocking crimes and seek to bring sadistic and merciless killers to justice. Under the unorthodox guidance of Langton, rookie Travis must negotiate a series of killings shocking even to the most hardened detective and defy the challenges of these brutal crimes to rise up the ranks of the police force. While investigating the mutilated body of a young woman whose death seems to echo that of a notorious unsolved murder from the 1940s, Travis and Langton will have their detective skills pushed to the limits as they seek to bring those above suspicion to justice.

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Season One Episode Guide (BritBox)
1-01 Above Suspicion (Part 1)--08/22/2023
For eight years, someone has been murdering women, following the same brutal ritual each time. The most recent victim doesn't fit the profile, but evidence links her to the others. Anna volunteers to go undercover to crack the case.
Written by: Linda La Plante
Directed by: Christopher Menaul

1-02 Above Suspicion (Part 2)--08/22/2023
Langton permits rookie Anna Travis to go on a date to the ballet with actor Alan Daniels, the prime suspect in serial killings involving low-rent prostitutes to gain information and mislead him.
Written by: Linda La Plante
Directed by: Christopher Menaul


Season Two Episode Guide (Britbox)
2-01 The Real Dahlia (Part 1)--08/22/2023
When a dismembered and mutilated body of a beautiful young woman is found, the copycat murderer contacts a journalist to point out similarities to the infamous Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles in 1947.
Written by: Linda La Plante
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon

2-02 The Real Dahlia (Part 2)--08/22/2023
Anna becomes involved romantically with the tabloid journalist covering the murder, and an anonymous phone call leads LBangton to an aristocratic ex-army surgeon as the chief suspect in the murders.
Written by: Linda La Plante
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon

2-03 The Real Dahlia (Part 3)--08/22/2023
Langton is sure arrogant, aristocratic Charles Wickenham , aided and abetted by his incestuous family is guilty of the horrific copycat murders.
Written by: Linda La Plante
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon


Season Three Episode Guide (Britbox)
3-01 Deadly Intent (Part 1)--08/22/2023
In Mexico someone is having plastic surgery. On a London estate disgraced ex-cop Frank Brandon is found shot dead in a crack den and Anna,now an inspector,joins the hunt for the killer. Frank had a girl-friend but had recently married Julia Larson,a wealthy Danish woman for whom he has briefly worked as her chauffeur.
Written by: Linda La Plante and Noel Farragher
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon

3-02 Deadly Intent (Part 2)--08/22/2023
Whilst Roache admits to shooting Frank in a panic he denies killing Danny. Middle-class drop-out and user Julian D'Anton's prints are on Danny's car though Langton considers him too small-time to be a murderer. From a photograph Anna identifies Julia's ex-husband Collingwood as an international criminal and asks Sam Power to contact the FBI for details of his crimes in America,though Julia denies all knowledge,even after her accountant,Rushton,is found dead
Written by: Linda La Plante and Noel Farragher
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon

3-03 Deadly Intent (Part 3)--08/22/2023
Julia's husband Anthony Collingwood is an alternate identity for international drug dealer Alexander Fitzpatrick, who only seems to care about his son.
Written by: Linda La Plante and Noel Farragher
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon


Season Four Episode Guide (Britbox)
4-01 Silent Scream (Part 1)--08/22/2023
Langton suspects that the reasons he lost out on a promotion to commander is affirmative action and someone resurrecting the Fitzpatrick Case. He takes on the murder of a young actress in order to resolve these questions.
Written by: Linda La Plante
Directed by: Catherine Morshead

4-02 Silent Scream (Part 2)--08/22/2023
Three of Amanda's lovers fall under suspicion, and Lamgton confronts Anna to find out if she is the one who cost him his promotion.
Written by: Linda La Plante
Directed by: Catherine Morshead

4-03 Silent Scream (Part 3)--08/22/2023
Felicity's dead body is found in the mirror and it's revealed that Jeanie Bale was blackmailing Amanda's parents with her diary.
Written by: Linda La Plante
Directed by: Catherine Morshead