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Messiah is a British television drama series, broadcast on the BBC One network and produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland, although the series itself is set in England. Made up of a series of occasional serials, the first, with two parts subtitled The First Killings & The Reckoning, was broadcast in 2001. It has been followed by Messiah 2: Vengeance is Mine (2003), Messiah III: The Promise (2004), Messiah IV: The Harrowing (2005) and most recently Messiah V: The Rapture (2008). The original production was based on a novel by Boris Starling: the subsequent instalments have been written directly for television. Starling has a cameo as a murder victim's corpse in the first serial.

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  • Messias (Fernsehreihe) (de)
  • Messiah (série télévisée) (fr)
  • Messiah (British TV series) (en)
  • Messiah (televisieserie) (nl)
  • Messiah (TV-serie) (sv)
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  • Messias (Originaltitel: Messiah) ist eine britische Krimiserie, die in loser Folge von der BBC Nordirland produziert wird, inhaltlich aber meist in England spielt. (de)
  • Messiah est une série télévisée britannique en 10 épisodes de 180 minutes créée d'après le roman éponyme de et diffusée entre le 26 mai 2001 et le 21 janvier 2008 sur BBC One. En France, la série est diffusée sur 13ème rue et Canal+. (fr)
  • Messiah är en brittisk kriminalserie från 2001 som handlar om jakten på en seriemördare. I huvudrollen som D.C.I. Redfern 'Red' Metcalfe ses Ken Stott. (sv)
  • Messiah is a British television drama series, broadcast on the BBC One network and produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland, although the series itself is set in England. Made up of a series of occasional serials, the first, with two parts subtitled The First Killings & The Reckoning, was broadcast in 2001. It has been followed by Messiah 2: Vengeance is Mine (2003), Messiah III: The Promise (2004), Messiah IV: The Harrowing (2005) and most recently Messiah V: The Rapture (2008). The original production was based on a novel by Boris Starling: the subsequent instalments have been written directly for television. Starling has a cameo as a murder victim's corpse in the first serial. (en)
  • Messiah is een Britse televisiereeks van de BBC, verfilmd in Engeland. De eerste reeks The First Killings is gebaseerd op een boek van en werd in 2001 voor het eerst uitgezonden. Nadien volgden nog drie reeksen. De serie is nog niet uitgezonden in Nederland. Dat kan te maken hebben met het feit dat in Nederland de KRO patent heeft op detectives, maar dat The First Killings zich inhoudelijk minder goed leent voor een katholieke omroep. In België is de serie uitgezonden op Canvas. De serie is niet geschikt voor mensen met een zwakke maag. De hoofdrolspelers: (nl)
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  • Six more victims are brutally murdered across London, including one victim previously undiscovered, and DCI Red Metcalfe has little to no leads. As he and the team try to protect any possible targets from the killer, forensic examination of a hair sample found on one of the victims leads Red to believe that DI Duncan Warren is responsible for the murders, unaware the hair sample had been planted by the killer. With Warren in custody and a formal statement having been made about his arrest, Metcalfe goes to see his brother Eric, who has been sent an anonymous letter about his brother. Red then realises that Duncan is not the killer, but before he can tell anyone, is confronted by the real killer in his flat. (en)
  • Two women are found brutally murdered, with the words "SAVE ME" written in blood by their corpses. DCI Red Metcalfe and his team have to get inside the head of the killer before he strikes again. (en)
  • A sadistic killer is striking at the families of officers involved in earlier murder investigations. DCI Red Metcalfe reopens those cases while trying to catch the killer before he strikes again. (en)
  • DCI Red Metcalfe's brother is knifed to death in the street. A sadistic serial killer is at large, with each body providing an obscure clue to the fate of the next victim. Metcalfe realises that the killer is now seeking bloody vengeance for possible miscarriages of justice. It may be that innocent men been convicted of murder. (en)
  • Assisted by an authority on Dante, DCI Red Metcalfe knows the "sin" and "punishment" of the next victim, but struggles to establish how the victims are being chosen. He must locate the killer before the macabre sequence is completed. (en)
  • An attack on a crack house on a run-down council estate sees several drug users brutally slaughtered. Michael Wallace's other daughter insists that her father is innocent of the sexual abuse charges, but she is later found murdered, and with her heart cut out. Joseph, meanwhile, has to consider whether to trust his Palestinian girlfriend. (en)
  • The death toll at the hospital continues to rise as the chief suspects are murdered. DCI Red Metcalfe uncovers the unwelcome connection between the victims. (en)
  • DCI Red Metcalfe is assigned to investigate the death of a chef found hanging from his landing ceiling, having had his tongue cut out and a silver spoon inserted into his mouth. Subsequently, four further victims come to light, including a bishop who has been beaten to death, a student who is found beheaded by his brother in his flat, a man who is found skinned alive in his chair, and a civil servant who is found slashed to death with a machete. The victims are all soon linked to the twelve apostles, and Metcalfe realises he is slowly running out of time before the killer strikes again. Meanwhile, Metcalfe also tries to come to terms with his brother's release, and DI Duncan Warren has money problems. (en)
  • Prison inmates riot and murder a hostage. When the injured are transferred to hospital, the murders continue. DCI Red Metcalfe and his team struggle to catch the killer before the death toll rises. (en)
  • Troubled DCI Joseph Walker investigates the gruesome murder of a key witness and his family, whose necks were slit before being posed around the dining table. The defendant in the original case, accused of the prolonged sexual abuse of his daughter, claims that she has false memory syndrome. Elsewhere, in separate incidents, two sisters are dressed in men's clothing and hanged. When a devout Christian has acid poured into her eyes, Joseph suspects that these are religious hate killings. (en)
  • The serial killer continues the killing spree, and leaves a clue: the victims and their fates are inspired by the circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno. (en)
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