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Murder in Mind

20013 seasons8.3 / 10

A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

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Synopsis

A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

Season 3 episodes

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Episode 1

Echoes

1h

When a centuries old male body is accidentally discovered in her garden by couple of builders, Elizabeth Marton becomes convinced that her own house is haunted and she does all her best to find out that truth about the man that was found dead in her garden. So, she beginns researching by looking to her family history…

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Directed by Coky GiedroycWritten by Anthony HorowitzGuest stars Tara Fitzgerald, James Wilby, Jasper Britton, Matt Bardock, Martin Jenkins, Paul Rhys, Joanna Scanlan, Kate Magowan

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Episode 2

Favours

1h

Jamie Holt, on runaway from the police, hides away in a small unknown village. There he makes a whole new life for himself and he starts running his own pub. Ten years after the runaway a fae from his past arrives in the town and starts to blackmail him into carrying out a murder for him.

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Directed by Frank W. SmithWritten by J.C. WilsherGuest stars Gary Kemp, Gaynor Faye, Phil Davis, Bruce McGregor, Charlotte Avery, Gary McDonald, Jade Garlick, Nathan Garlick

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Episode 3

Stalkers

1h

A female author for children books, Hat Vezey, gets terrorised by an obsessive stalker that won't leave her in peace. After she gets enough of everything, Hat decides to resort to desperate measures to stop the stalker from terrorising her…

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Directed by Gerry PoulsonWritten by Gregory EvansGuest stars Neil Morrissey, Natasha Little, Barbara Flynn, Rakie Ayola, Daniel Flynn, Edna Doré, Carla Du Bois, Andrew Hallett

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Episode 4

Suicide

1h

25 years after her son commited a suicide as a result of school bullying, Jill Craig decides to take revenge on the bully that made her son kill himself, Scott Martin. She employs the former bully's services for odd-jobs and pretends to befriend him over a period of many months while all the time setting him up for a murder. She shows him her jewellery in order to have his fingerprints on it then plants some of it in his shed, she even secretly changes her will in his favour to give him a motive. She then kills herself in such a way as to make it seem as though Scott Martin had murdered her and tried to make it look like suicide so he could inherit her money. And with her carefully engineered forensic evidence stacked against him he receives a life sentence for her ""murder"".

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Directed by Sven ArnsteinWritten by Simon SharkeyGuest stars Nick Reding, Jonathan Timmins, Diana Rigg, Rachel Bell, James Allen, Steve Toussaint, Kerry Godliman, Liz May Brice

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Episode 5

Contract

1h

Three city dealers' scheme to siphon off money from their company's accounts is suspected by Simon's boss so he and his friends hire ageing hitman Terry Cameron to do away with him. Cameron requires payment only on completion of the job, but when the boss publicly dies of a heart attack the dealers decide there is no need to pay the hitman. Cameron then starts killing the dealers one-by-one as a penalty for non-payment.

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Directed by Adrian BeanWritten by Guy BurtGuest stars Raji James, Jamie Theakston, Adam Faith, William Chubb, Andrew Clover, Christine Adams, Alex Hassell, Christopher Godwin

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Episode 6

Landlord

1h

Alan Willis is a lazy, unscrupulous property owner leasing dilapidated homes to unsuspecting tenants. When Australian student Claire MacGregor agrees to rent a death-trap of an apartment she promptly dies of carbon monoxide poisoning from the central heating boiler. Alan finds the body, panics, and enlists the help of his wife Liz to disguise the death as suicide. But the plan, to make it appear as if she killed herself by inhaling exhaust fumes from her car, runs into problems whe nthe real car owner appears claiming Claire could not drive.

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Directed by David ThackerWritten by Simon SharkeyGuest stars Nicholas Lyndhurst, Amber Sainsbury, Al Hunter Ashton, Ruth Gemmell, Garron Mitchell, David Blair, Robert Cavanah, Garry Cooper

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Episode 7

Justice

1h

Tom is in a state of despair. He still loves wife Helen and daughter Holly, but he's responsible for his marriage breaking down. Tom spent too much time trying to salvage his business and paid little attention to his home life. Tom desperately wants Helen back, but a reconciliation is looking highly unlikely when Helen becomes involved with Alex a police officer. One day when Tom picks Holly up from school there's an altercation between him and a local teen thug named Darren. Tom takes offence when Darren jumps the ice cream queue; and using physical force, he ejects the abusive teenager from the line. Everything gets out of hand when Darren and his gang set upon Tom and Holly, hurling stones and bricks at his car. Later, a concerned Helen suggests to Tom that Alex might be of some help; but Tom's pride won't let him take an offer of help from Helen's new boyfriend. Later Tom is beaten up by a couple of unknown thugs, Tom suspects Darren's father is the culprit. Worse still, Tom discov

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Directed by Alrick RileyWritten by Eric DeaconGuest stars Helen Baxendale, Adrian Dunbar, Colin Salmon, Jacqueline Clarke, George Jackos, Joy Blakeman, Francis Johnson, Carli Norris

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Episode 8

Cornershop

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Decent, hardworking and respectable, Sanjay Patel is a corner shop owner facing financial ruin when regularly forced to pay protection money to two local bullies. When one of the thugs, Ronnie Brown, turns up at the shop, brandishing a knife and demands 'his cash', Sanjay's actions leads to disastrous consequences. With the thug missing, the investigating officer immediately suspects the corner shop owner. But with very little evidence and no body, will Sanjay be declared innocent?

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Directed by Menhaj HudaWritten by Stephen LeatherGuest stars Jake Wood, Tim Faraday, Steve Chaplin, Albert Moses, Kal Aise, Bhasker Patel, Nina Wadia, Gurpreet Singh

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

More about Murder in Mind

Cast

Kevin WhatelyNigel Liddy
Tara FitzgeraldElizabeth Morton
James McAvoyMartin Vosper
Nick RedingScott Martin
Jake WoodKarl Kruger
Samantha RobsonTara Stevensby
Annette CrosbieRose Buttimore
Susannah HarkerBarbara Davies

Credits

Created by
Anthony Horowitz
Written by
Anthony Horowitz, Stephen Leather, Simon Sharkey, Guy Burt, J. C. Wilsher, Eric Deacon, J.C. Wilsher, Gregory Evans

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
23
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • BBC OneUnited Kingdom
  • BBCUnited Kingdom
  • Paul Knight ProductionsUnited Kingdom

Themes

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