Edge of Darkness

Season

1985

8.3

When his daughter Emma is murdered, cop Ronald Craven discovers that she was in GAIA, a group of activists occupied with exposing illegal activities at Northmoor nuclear waste storage facility.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Compassionate Leave

Yorkshire cop Craven returns home after picking his daughter Emma up at college, when a man fires a shotgun and kills Emma. Cop Craven has enemies but why'd Emma have a Geiger counter and a gun?

S1 • E2

Into the Shadows

Craven comes to London to investigate, assuming the gunman meant to kill Emma and not him. She was a member of GAIA, an organization against nuclear power. Her body's radioactive.

S1 • E3

Burden of Proof

During the arrest of Lowe, suspect in shooting Emma, he allegedly jumps out the window and falls 6 floors. Craven manages to get a name out of him at the hospital. Emma's lover gets killed. Emma's buried.

S1 • E4

Breakthrough

Craven is back home, where Emma's killer comes for him. He tries to get him to tell, who's behind - to no avail. A radioactive body is found near Northmoor. He "gets" access to MI5's computer and info on Northmoor.

S1 • E5

Northmoor

3 men including Craven sneak into Northmoor "low grade" nuclear waste "storage" plant through mineshafts to investigate. Will they find evidence of murder of GAIA environmentalists and illegal plutonium?