Silent Witness returned to our screens last night, with the first episode of its 29th season. And this time our favourite forensics team have moved to set up a new centre in Birmingham.
The first two episodes are available on BBC iPlayer and follow the team as what appears at first to be a simple hit and run, turns into a notorious hitman Gary Booth confessing to a five-year-old crime - the disappearance and death of a woman named Alice Hill.
But did Booth actually kill Alice? The team weren't so sure, and so here is everything you need to know about who actually killed Alice Hill, and all the other questions we had after the episode.
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Who killed Alice Hill?
The first episode of the series kicked off with a hit and run crime scene, that quickly ended with the team arresting a notorious hitman Gary Booth. Amongst the crimes Booth admitted to, he also claimed to have killed Alice Hill.
Alice Hill, was a woman who had gone missing five years ago while on a jog near her home. Her body had never been discovered but she was presumed dead and her husband Jason Webb was arrested and sentenced to prison for her murder, despite claiming he hadn't done it.
With Booth admitting to Alice's death, it caused the case to reopen and Booth lead the team to Alice's body which was buried in the woods. His admission and the discovery of the body lead to Jason being released from prison.
In the next episode, Jason and the majority of the team were suspicious that everything seemed too convenient for Booth being Alice's real killer.
Alice's sister went onto reveal that not only did Alice have a stalker, but that she was also having an affair and had been given a poetry book for her birthday one year. The book contained a handwritten inscription which matched the writing on a note left next to where Alice's body was discovered, bringing the team one step closer.
After some digging done by Kit, the team identified another man called Steve Gantry who was revealed to be the man Alice was having an affair with. Steve and Alice were the couple fooling around during the start of episode one, when they heard a man (believed to be Alice's stalker) creeping around his house.
At the time, DCI Bashir told Gantry not to make it a formal issue and he left the station without being further investigated.
Gantry then took Nikki and Jack to his cottage where he would meet up with Alice, and while doing their investigations, Gantry was stabbed and the attic they were sourcing evidence from was set on fire.
The team then spoke to Jason about what was happening, and he revealed he told no one about Gantry apart from his lawyer Richard Mazer.
After speaking with Jason they then pieced together that Mazer didn't like that there was a chance the case could be reopened and so paid Booth to confess to the crime and used Andrews to get the map and location of Alice's body to Booth.
Jason then showed the team the video footage from his wedding in which Richard is there and looks particularly angry during the happy occasion. Jason then met up with Richard at the park, and asked him about the email Alice received on their honeymoon which accused Jason of siphoning off company money, with Jason suggesting Richard was responsible for the email.
We then get to see a flashback of Richard telling Alice to break off her marriage to Jason, and that neither Jason nor Steve deserved Alice, causing Alice to discover Richard is her stalker. Richard is then seen raising a log to hit Alice over the head with, revealing him to be her killer and stalker.
Who killed Robert Andrews?
Alice Hill wasn't the only death the team had to investigate during the episodes. At the end of episode 1, the sergeant Robert Andrews, responsible for booking Gary Booth into custody was found dead.
DCI Bashir was convinced it was suicide following Andrews' previous struggles, however the rest of the team wasn't convinced. They discovered Andrews had serious gambling problems, but had returned to one underground casino to pay off his debts. After paying off his debts he then tried to play another game, but was subsequently kicked out.
The team began to wonder where he had suddenly got the cash to pay his debts and what links it could have to Booth.
Jack and DI Ferris went to interview Andrews' colleague who admitted Andrews had cut the security footage during Booth's first day in the cell. However, the footage was still there thanks to technical security measure and his colleague revealed he saw Andrews give Booth a package ,which was later revealed to contain a map and photographs of Alice's body's location.
The team later connected Andrews to Jason's lawyer Richard Mazer, who they discovered had helped him get off a charge of smashing up a casino.
It then appeared Mazer got Andrews to give Booth the map of Alice's body's location. While the episode doesn't explicitly mention it, we can presume Mazer was also responsible for staging Andrews' death after he was no longer of use to him and didn't want him to blab to the police about what he'd done.
Why was DCI Bashir trying to stop the investigation?
Throughout the two episodes DCI Bashir seemed intent on having the easiest and most obvious solution to the murders tied up. She was happy to accept Booth's confession and believed Andrews died by suicide, whereas the rest of the team wanted to investigate more, suspicious there was something else to the stories.
While Bashir's resistance wasn't explicitly explained it's likely that she wanted to just ignore the other evidence because she didn't want to admit she made a mistake all the years ago when she arrested Jason Webb. The Alice Hill case had led to her going further on the police force, and maybe she was worried that reopening it would cause her to be questioned.
We already know she ignored Alice's affair with Steve Gantry as it didn't fit the narrative of Jason killing Alice, and so it makes sense she wanted to keep things as close to the original story as possible.
Silent Witness is available to catchup on BBC iPlayer
