Touching evil (1997)
Title Touching evil
Publisher WGBH Boston
Year: 1997
Format DVD
Type Television series
Genre Mystery television programs
LC Call No. PN1992.8.D48T682 1997
Notes Robson Green stars as the sly, sexy, and slightly unstable Detective Inspector Dave Creegan of London's Organized and Serial Crime (OSC) Unit.  With the help of his stalwart partner Susan Taylor, Creegan races against time as he tracks down the city's most dangerous criminals.
Subject Criminal investigation--Drama; Police--England--Drama
Touching evil, season 1, disc 1
Title The lost boys
Series Touching evil: 1-1
Year 1997
Runtime 120 min
Director Jarrold, Julian
Cast Green, Robson - Dave Creegan
Walker, Nicola - Susan Taylor
Michael Feast - Commander Enwright
Adam Kotz - Jonathan Kreitman
Dingwall, Shaun - Mark Rivers
Synopsis Three children have been abducted.  The only clues are a daffodil, a yellow Volvo, and the testimony of a deranged psychic who has seen their eventual murder "through the clouds."  Detective Inspector Dave Creegan is hell-bent on finding the missing boys before it's too late, by whatever means necessary, however unorthodox, and whatever the price.
Creegan discovers that the disappearance of the boys and the curious disposition of daffodils recall a similar unsolved incident in Stuttgart several years before.  And when it's determined that the owner of the Volvo is pharmaceutical engineer Dr. Ronald Hinks, formerly of Stuttgart, the case seems straightforward enough.  But when searches of Hinks' residence and laboratory, at home and abroad, yield no hard evidence, it looks like the smug scientist is going to get away with murder.  Time is running short -- and if the kidnapper remains true to form, the boys are still alive.  For now.
Locked in a stalemate with Hinks and desperate to find the children, Creegan decides to take matters into his own hands -- and a shocking climax reveals that Hinks has not completely dodged justice.
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Touching evil, season 1, disc 2
Title To death and back
Series Touching evil: 1-2
Year 1997
Runtime 120 min
Director Munden, Marc
Cast Green, Robson - Dave Creegan
Walker, Nicola - Susan Taylor
Michael Feast - Commander Enwright
Adam Kotz - Jonathan Kreitman
Dingwall, Shaun - Mark Rivers
Synopsis Detective Inspector Dave Creegan, his partner D.I. Susan Taylor, and the Organized Serial Crime (OSC) Unit are called in to investigate the suspicious deaths of three London hospital patients, all killed within hours of each other by a drug that none had been prescribed.
Again, the clues are few and enigmatic: each victim sports a patch of bare skin with a faint outline of "Let me go" tattooed upon it -- and each was treated by Dr. Elizabeth Walker, an outspoken advocate of euthanasia.  Under questioning from Creegan and Taylor, Walker admits to having partially erased one of the messages, which, she says, actually read "Let me go back."
The case cuts too close to the bone for Creegan, who, having survived a bullet to the head, is painfully reminded of his own near-death experience.  Investigating further, Creegan confirms that all three victims had at one time clinically died and were subsequently resuscitated.  Certain that he and the killer, like the victims, share in common a "trip to the other side," Creegan sets a seductive trap only to find himself ensnared.
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Touching evil, season 1, disc 3
Title What Amathus wants
Series Touching evil: 1-3
Year 1997
Runtime 120 min
Director Jarrold, Julian
Cast Green, Robson - Dave Creegan
Walker, Nicola - Susan Taylor
Michael Feast - Commander Enwright
Adam Kotz - Jonathan Kreitman
Dingwall, Shaun - Mark Rivers
Synopsis Someone has developed a Web site that manipulates young users into committing violent crimes: Amathus, the site's featured gothic fantasy game, coaches players through a series of violent "tests" -- from mutilating horses to homicide.
Detective Inspector Dave Creegan and his partner D.I. Susan Taylor zero in on a group of local college students when murder becomes the name of the game.  Examining a bizarre manner in which the bodies of their victims have been mutilated, Creegan realizes it mirrors a notorious case of fifteen years ago involving a now-incarcerated prostitute, Justine Barber.  He suspects that the elusive Amathus Webmaster is obsessed with Justine and enlists her support as decoy to catch him.  Meanwhile, another member of the OSC team, D.S. Jonathan Kreitman, struggles to face down his own personal demons, and chooses his own brand of justice over the law.
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Touching evil, season 2, disc 1
Title A pupil of murder
Series Touching evil: 2-1
Year 1998
Runtime 120 min
Audio Dolby Digital 2.0
Director Folkson, Sheree
Cast Green, Robson - Dave Creegan
Walker, Nicola - Susan Taylor
Michael Feast - Commander Enwright
Dingwall, Shaun - Mark Rivers
Synopsis Before slaying and scalping his latest victim -- always a young woman -- a spooky serial killer e-mails his intentions to tabloid reporter David Laney.  With Laney's help, the OSC lays a trap, and D.C. Mark Rivers witnesses an abduction in progress.  Trailing the killer to an abandoned shack, Rivers is joined by D.I. Dave Creegan who confronts the psychopath, poised to slit the throat of his next victim.  Can Creegan persuade the killer to spare her life?
Later, when the serial killer is behind bars, his murder spree somehow continues.  Is it a copycat or an accomplice?  The detectives must turn to the killer himself for help, and he names a trivial but bone-chilling price.
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Touching evil, season 2, disc 2
Title The caregiver
Series Touching evil: 2-2
Year 1998
Runtime 120 min
Audio Dolby Digital 2.0
Director Talalay, Rachel (Rachel Tanya)
Cast Green, Robson - Dave Creegan
Walker, Nicola - Susan Taylor
Michael Feast - Commander Enwright
Dingwall, Shaun - Mark Rivers
Synopsis Lovingly washed, white-shrouded corpses are turning up across Europe, each with a neat hole in the skull.  When the homicides hit Britain, the OSC gets the case, and D.I. Dave Creegan learns the victims all knew each other in Bosnia, where they worked for a relief agency.  He also catches a glimpse of the probable killer captured on a security camera -- a man everyone thought was dead.  Serial killer Jim Keller has given police the slip and is now widening his scope of victims to include anyone who gets in his way.  Eager to prove himself after past mistakes, D.C. Mark Rivers throws himself into the investigation -- and into the killer's line of fire.
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Touching evil, season 2, disc 3
Title What price a child?
Series Touching evil: 2-3
Year 1998
Runtime 120 min
Audio Dolby Digital 2.0
Director Pillai, Alex
Cast Green, Robson - Dave Creegan
Walker, Nicola - Susan Taylor
Michael Feast - Commander Enwright
Dingwall, Shaun - Mark Rivers
Synopsis Annie Jordan kidnaps the child she says was coerced from her in a baby-brokering scheme.  Suspecting links to an international child-trafficking ring, D.I. Susan Taylor and D.C. Mark Rivers pose as a childless couple in a sting to nab the ringleaders.  But when Taylor returns from her undercover work with a little girl, she puts her job at risk.
Meanwhile, D.I. Dave Creegan helps track the child-trafficking ring, only to become enamored with Annie and to find his own children targeted in a revenge attack by a distraught father who blames Creegan for his daughter's death.  Will this case end in tragedy for Creegan?
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Touching evil, season 3, disc 1
Title Touching evil 3, part 1
Series Touching evil: 3-1
Year 1999
Runtime 120 min
Audio Dolby Digital 2.0
Director Bill Eagles
Cast Green, Robson - DI Dave Creegan
Walker, Nicola - DI Susan Taylor
Michael Feast - Commander Enwright
Dingwall, Shaun - DC Mark Rivers
Synopsis Creegan is back on the job, having recovered from a nervous breakdown.  He is determined to clear the name of a man he helped convict -- a tough task given that the murders began again once the suspected killer got out of jail.  Creegan and Taylor have to scramble to figure out the true motive of the killer, especially after the killer cuts to the heart of the OSC.
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Touching evil, season 3, disc 2
Title Touching evil 3, part 2
Series Touching evil: 3-2
Year 1999
Runtime 120 min
Audio Dolby Digital 2.0
Director David Moore
Cast Green, Robson - DI Dave Creegan
Walker, Nicola - DI Susan Taylor
Michael Feast - Commander Enwright
Synopsis A brazen new serial killer terrorizes the city by setting his victims on fire.  To gain insight on this frightening predator, Taylor interviews a man behind bars incarcerated for the same reason, but she and Creegan follow a variety of blind leads.  With the clock ticking, will Creegan crack the case before he gets burned?
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