Silent Witness: Series 16
Season 16 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Silent Witness Season 15.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 16 Progress Shield
Change (1)
Jan 10, 2013 · 60 min
The mysterious death of a wealthy confectionery firm owner plunges Nikki, Leo and new recruit Jack Hodgson into a murky world of corporate subterfuge.
Change (2)
Jan 11, 2013 · 60 min
When two women close to a dead businessman are murdered, Nikki, Jack and Leo open his family's skeleton-packed closet.
Trust (1)
Jan 17, 2013 · 60 min
The murders of two women in a house basement force Jack to lock horns with an old flame, while Leo wrestles with providing a second post-mortem on a baby.
Trust (2)
Jan 18, 2013 · 60 min
As the basement women case highlights two cooperating killers, Nikki, Jack and DI Reed realise one victim was killed by a controlled sedative.
True Love Waits (1)
Jan 24, 2013 · 60 min
When a pub landlady is stabbed to death and her little finger cut off, Nikki is isolated in her quest to prove the husband's innocence.
True Love Waits (2)
Jan 25, 2013 · 60 min
When arrested and interrogated by DI Kate Warren, Alan Lane vehemently protests his innocence and insists he didn't kill his wife.
Legacy (1)
Jan 31, 2013 · 60 min
Nikki is wooed by a science minister as she and Jack investigate a murder on an eco-building project, whilst Leo finds himself trapped in a hospital siege.
Legacy (2)
Feb 1, 2013 · 60 min
Conflict brews between Leo and Nikki when he suspects her new boyfriend is involved in a 50-year cover-up, leaving Leo battling alone to expose the truth.
Greater Love (1)
Feb 7, 2013 · 60 min
Human remains found on an Afghan water supply project send Leo, Nikki and Jack to the war-torn region to establish if it is a missing British soldier.
Greater Love (2)
Feb 8, 2013 · 60 min
Leo develops a life-changing relationship with a charity worker as Nikki and Jack make a forensic breakthrough on their case in Afghanistan.