Taggart: Series 13

3 episodes Premiered Sep 19, 1996 Updated Sep 29, 2026

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Season 13 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 Taggart Season 12.
⚡ 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.

Season 13 Episodes

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Season 13: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (2): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (1): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S13·E1 Mytharc

Dead Mans Chest

Sep 19, 1996

A 15 year-old gold bullion robbery leads the Maryhill team on a race against time as one by one the robbers are murdered. With pirates, treasure chests and secret maps to buried tr

S13·E2 Core

Apocalypse

Jan 9, 1997

The bizarre murders of opponents and ex-members of a religious cult have the team baffled. Each murder follows the Biblical plagues of egypt which according the Book of Revelation

S13·E3 Mytharc

Babushka

Sep 4, 1997

Mail order brides or women to order? Glasgow takes on a Russian flavour when the trail from the murder of wealthy local business man hots up and Jardine's team try to unravel the m