The Tunnel

Season 1

TV-14

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When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, presumably under the sea, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate. The police are forced into an uneasy international alliance after a shocking crime scene discovery.

Where to Watch The Tunnel • Season 1

10 Episodes

Episode 1
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Episode 1Inside the Channel Tunnel, on the borderline between Britain and France, the body of a woman is discovered. French and British police arrive at the scene: Capitaine Elise Wassermann of the French police, and DCI Karl Roebuck from the UK. Elise and Karl realise that they will be forced to collaborate on this highly complex case.
Episode 2
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Episode 2The killer uses the internet to very publicly announce his first 'Truth' - that we are not all equal before the law. When Karl and Elise discover that he is using British police servers to host his site, they are wrong-footed - they are obviously dealing with a criminal mastermind.
Episode 3
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Episode 3The serial killer steps up his cross-Channel campaign targeting a further elderly victim in his "moral" crusade. The race is on for police in Britain and France to identify and capture the murderer before more lives are brutally lost.
Episode 4
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Episode 4French police notice occasional vibrations on the live stream, which they determine (via audio analysis) are passing trains. They narrow his location to two cold stores. Karl and Elise search for what turns out to be the correct location. Armed police attempt to apprehend the Truth Terrorist.
Episode 5
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Episode 5When the killer contacts Danny to announce his third truth - the treatment of the mentally ill - Karl and Elise's fears are confirmed. Meanwhile, police are becoming increasingly suspicious of Stephen Beaumont. Chuks confronts him about Veronica who has disappeared from his cottage. This is clearly news to Stephen, and Chuks is forced to let him go.
Episode 6
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Episode 6As youths are burnt alive, police suspect the hand of the Truth Terrorist once more. They finally make a key arrest. Will this be the end of the killings in this brilliantly tense Anglo-French thriller?
Episode 7
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Episode 7Police think they may finally have a lead, as the serial killer's actions escalate in his fifth and final "truth." Karl and Laura's relationship takes another turn as Laura steps up her flirtations with another man.
Episode 8
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Episode 8French secret services, the DCRI, mount an operation to capture Fabien Vincent. Karl and Elise join them, angry to have their toes trodden on by DCRI agents. Karl returns to his apartment to search for personal links to TT. In France meanwhile, Elise disappears. Her colleagues become frantic with worry that TT has taken her.
Episode 9
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Episode 9Karl and Elise sit amongst reams of evidence pointing towards Karl's friend and ex-colleague, Kieran Ashton. Karl is understandably disturbed but there seems to be something else preying on him. Meanwhile, in France, Karl and Elise head off to interview a former friend of Kieran Ashton's wife. Police work fast to trace bank accounts from Kieran Ashton to his new identity of John Sumner.
Episode 10
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Episode 10The tense crime drama comes to an unmissable climax as Karl falls apart when the Truth Terrorist's change of direction becomes too much to bear.