Silent Witness: Squaring the Circle (video preview)

In tonight’s new two part Silent Witness story, Squaring the Circle, the nanny of a billionaire Russian oligarch is killed in a botched assassination attempt as she is being shepherded along with his young daughter from a party. The two pitmen pull up on a black motorcycle and after a bloody shootout, bodyguards manage to kill one of the attackers and injure the other.

The Silent Witness regulars, Dr Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) and Jack Hodgson (David Caves) join forces with young DI Sarah Parks (Lauren O’Neil) to try to identify the dead would-be assassin as further questions begin to mount, such as who would want the businessman dead, and why?

Justine Greenwood (Pippa Haywood), a high-up London politician, leans on the police to keep the Russian angle out of the news, but proves to have skeletons in her own cupboard that she’d rather keep hidden.

This two parter shows London as a corrupt playground for the super-rich, in bed with property developers and politicians alike.

Silent Witness: Squaring the Circle begins tonight (26th January) on BBC ONE at 9pm and concluded tomorrow at the same time.