Waking the Dead: Series 8
Season 8 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 Waking the Dead Season 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
Magdalene 26 (1)
Sep 6, 2009
After a women running naked along a country way is picked up there are two cases to solve. The first one is to find out how she got there, a complicated task because she suffers fr
Magdalene 26 (2)
Sep 7, 2009
After the shooting in the hospital in which Stella is wounded the involvement of the priest becomes clear. With the shooter killed there is no chance for interrogation, but his bod
End Of The Night (1)
Sep 13, 2009
The failed suicide of a women called Gemma who has been raped 12 years ago, when she was just a girl by two men, causes Boyd and his team to re-open the investigation. But as the p
End Of The Night (2)
Sep 14, 2009
Eventually new forensic evidence leads Boyd and the team to one of the rapists of Gemma. Now the hunt is on for his partner, which becomes as race against time as Gemma might have
Substitute (1)
Sep 20, 2009
When Eve's new boyfriend Stefan is being vague about his past she puts her skills to use and uncovers something she rather wouldn't have. Unsure about the next step she turns to Bo
Substitute (2)
Sep 21, 2009
Eve's trust in her boyfriend proves unfounded as he turns out to be worst then even Boyd expected. Fortunately she is able to escape from the location where she is being held, but
Endgame (1)
Sep 27, 2009
An old adversary of Boyd's asks him to investigate two deaths at her psychiatric hospital.
Endgame (2)
Sep 28, 2009
Boyd and his team uncover the awful truth behind the walls of the psychiatric hospital.