Jemma Redgrave will play D.I. Jill Raymond in the “Silent Witness” episodes “Hope-Part 1” and “Hope-Part 2”. Part 1 will air on BBC1 on Monday 27 January 2020 at 9pm and Part 2 will air on BBC on Tuesday 28 January 2020 at 9pm.
The synopsis for Part 1 is:
Teenagers messing around in a stolen car collide with a concrete pillar in a multistorey car park. The joyriders escape, but within the smashed concrete, the unmistakable form of a skull is revealed. After painstakingly extracting the skeleton encased inside, Nikki and the Lyell team must investigate a suspicious dating back 20 years. Meanwhile, Clarissa faces a difficult decision regarding her mother’s care.
The synopsis for Part 2 is:
The Lyell team identify the concrete-encased remains as those of Derek Marshall, survived by his wife Sue and sister Ann. Clarissa traces payments to a cryogenics facility, leading to the discovery of another suspicious death. Lacking any proper documentation, the coroner orders a post-mortem into the cryogenically frozen body. How did they die, and why was the decision made to freeze them?