History Series / SilentWitness

* DeadpanSnarker: Clarissa Mullery.

* EverybodyIsSingle: Leo was married with a daughter until they were both tragically killed, and he eventually entered a long term relationship with [[TheProfiler a profiler]]; Harry and Nikki, though, will usually end up dating either the victim, the killer, or someone who just ends up getting in the way.

* EverybodyIsSingle: Leo had a long term relationship with [[TheProfiler a profiler]]; Harry and Nikki, though, will usually end up dating either the victim, the killer, or someone who just ends up getting in the way.

This show contains examples of:

* TooSoon: "And Then I Fell In Love", a story planned for Season 15, was delayed as it was too close to a very-high-profile case undergoing trial involving a child sex ring in Rochdale, to the point of potentially prejudicing it. The case has now concluded, but the story has only now, after a long delay, been rescheduled to air several months after originally planned.

* WellDoneSonGuy: In "True Love Waits", Kate Warren is under intense pressure from her father (a retired senior officer) to secure a murder conviction in order to save her own career. This becomes her motivation for tampering with evidence.

* {{Badass}}: Jack Hodgson moonlights as a cage-fighter, which tends to come in very handy against criminals.

* CartwrightCurse: At least two of Harry's current or former girlfriends were murdered.

** Jack and Clarissa, to the point where Jack's condition for coming to work at the Lyall Centre was that they hire her too.

* Jack and Clarissa, to the point where Jack's condition for coming to work at the Lyall Centre was that they hire her too.

** "Safe": [[spoiler: The team fails to get a gang leader convicted for murder, or even for breaking dangerous dogs laws (since he illegally owned a dog that savaged one of his victims to death). The evidence finally gets him jailed for raping an underage girl, but he'll still be out sooner than he would have been with a murder conviction - and his gang is still alive and grooming young boys to join them.]]

** "Safe": [[spoiler: The team have failed to get a gang leader convicted for murder, or even for breaking dangerous dogs laws (since he illegally owned a dog that savaged one of his victims to death). The evidence finally gets him jailed for raping an underage girl, but he'll still be out sooner than he would have been with a murder conviction - and his gang is still alive and grooming young boys to join them.]]
** ''Commodity'': [[spoiler:Terrorists got away with over two million pounds' worth of blackmail money, ended an innocent man's career by shooting him in the leg (he was a professional footballer), and will probably continue to attack Jewish/Israeli targets.]]

* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The premise of ''Supernova''.

** ''Safe'': The story's villain (a gang leader) is convicted on a technicality, but his gang is still active and grooming young boys to join them.
** ''Commodity'': Terrorists got away with over two million pounds' worth of blackmail money, ended an innocent man's career by shooting him in the leg (he was a professional footballer), and will probably continue to attack Jewish/Israeli targets.

* YouDidntAsk: In ''Coup de Grace'', a murder suspect who is living in his father's old house finds his father's gun stashed there, and agrees to give it to his lawyer to hand over to the police; but ends up taking Nikki and the lawyer hostage when Nikki finds the gun first and panics. Later, when the investigating DI asks the lawyer why he didn't tell the police about the gun ''first'', he points out that no one ever asked.

The series now revolves around the activities of three Home Office pathologists (Leo Dalton, Nikki Alexander and Harry Cunningham) as they investigate murders in London, though they sometimes help outside the city and at least one story per season will usually feature them going abroad.

* EverybodyIsSingle: Leo is in a long term relationship with [[TheProfiler a profiler]]; Harry and Nikki, though, will usually end up dating either the victim, the killer, or someone who just ends up getting in the way.

* HeyItsThatGuy: JulianGlover turned up one story.

* HeadbuttOfLove Nikki and Harry have had a few of these recently

* TooSoon: "And Then They Fell In Love", a story planned for Season 15, was delayed as it was too close to a very-high-profile case undergoing trial involving a child sex ring in Rochdale, to the point of potentially prejudicing it. The case has now concluded, but the story has only now, after a long delay, been rescheduled to air several months after originally planned.

British crime/forensic series, running from 1996 onwards, now in its seventeenth series, making it the third oldest currently airing crime drama in the world (''{{Tatort}}'' is the winner, the German show having run since 1970).

British crime/forensic series, running from 1996 onwards, now in its seventeenth series, making it possibly the oldest currently airing crime drama in the world.