Red Cap
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Red Cap

★ 6.7/10 TMDB Premiered 2003-01-07 2 seasons 12 eps

Red Cap is a British television drama series produced by Stormy Pictures for the BBC and broadcast on BBC One. Two series of six episodes each were produced following a feature length pilot. It featured the investigations of an Special Investigation Branch unit of the British Army based in Germany. Ostensibly the lead character was Sergeant Jo McDonagh, played by Tamzin Outhwaite, but the show was more of an ensemble piece, with several notable characters coming to prominence.

Last Episode Aired 2004-02-12
S2E6 — Long Time Dead

A group of soldiers are sitting in a garage playing cards and drinking. Private Barham is drunk but decides he wants more and takes off in an armored personnel carrier, tearing through the base like a mad man. After a high speed chase, Barham crashes the vehicle into an abandoned building. When the Red Caps arrive, they make a gruesome discovery - there is a mummified corpse hanging from the debris. SIB search the abandoned building a find Barham's electrocuted body; one of the team is nearly killed in the process. It's after this accident that things begin to fall into place. The corpse is that of Private Exxner. Exxner had gone absent without leave just before his unit was sent to Iraq. He was also a known drug user. From this, SIB discovery that Exxner was the lynch pin of a drug ring that covered the whole unit, and included many who did not return from the Gulf. It's up to the team to trawl through the evidence of cowardice, bravery, loyalty and honor to find out who killed Exxner

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Billed Cast
Tamzin Outhwaite
Tamzin Outhwaite
Sgt. Jo McDonagh
Douglas Hodge
Douglas Hodge
Raquel Cassidy
Raquel Cassidy
James Thornton
Gordon Kennedy
Gordon Kennedy
Blake Ritson
Blake Ritson
Poppy Miller
Poppy Miller
Chris O'Dowd
Chris O'Dowd
Bernie Maddox
Nigel Harman
Nigel Harman
Douglas Hodge
Douglas Hodge
Kenneth Burns
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