What "Silent Witness" 5-th episode about
After the body of a young woman is recovered a river and Nikki is called to perform the post-mortem. It soon becomes evident that the woman was dead before she entered the river as there's evidence of a struggle and inspection of her skull reveals a brain haemorrhage. After finds out that she has given birth, Nikki is worried that her child could be abandoned somewhere. After Lieutenant Stephen Lockford suffers a flashback to Afghanistan and starts shooting at one of his fellow soldiers a training exercise at a local army base is canceled. His body is later discovered in his car at the barracks. Harry is called to the suicide site and it begins to look look like the two cases could be linked.
Episode number: 5
Episode name: "First Casualty (1)"
Episode release date: 17 january 2011 at 21:00
Status: aired
Rating: 7.1
