The essential episodes of Harry Wild
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Harry Wild — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Former literature professor Harriet "Harry" Wild is trying to adjust to retirement when she's injured in a mugging. While recovering at the home of her son, senior detective Charlie, Harry looks at his files and realizes his latest investigation bears similarities to an obscure Elizabethan play. After Charlie dismisses her insights, she decides to find the killer-with aid from a surprising source.
- 02
Samurai Plague Doctor Kills for Kicks
Due to their new notoriety, Harry and Fergus are approached by a woman desperate to find out how her husband died. Although reluctant to get involved, Harry's interest is soon piqued. When she and Fergus uncover a deadly gambling operation, Harry turns over the evidence to Charlie, vowing to stay out of it. Unfortunately, the killers have other ideas.
- 03
When a body is pulled out of the river near Harry's local pub, something about the dead man feels familiar to Harry. When she remembers how she knows him, she realizes she's stumbled onto the ultimate misdirect. Harry and Fergus go undercover, with the assistance of Harry's teenage granddaughter, Lola, to find the truth. Along the way, Harry starts to grow closer to Ray, Charlie's boss and mentor.
- 04
An Unhappy Happy Is A Dangerous Thing
Harry and Fergus agree to help a local loan shark known as Happy find out who murdered his employee; in return, Happy will cancel the sizeable debt owed by Fergus's father. Harry notices links between the killing and Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," which brings her to the attention of fledgling serial killer Billy Lund.
- 05
A stuffy dinner party in the home of Harry's former colleague goes awry when a vomiting bug hits all the guests but Harry. After the cause of the sickness is traced to a dead body in the home's well, Charlie's sergeant, Vicky Boyle, leads the investigation. Too eager to prove herself, Vicky makes some rash choices and zeroes in on Harry as the culprit, leaving Fergus to prove her innocence.
- 06
Zoe McCann is a recovering addict fighting each day to slay her demons. But when she is abducted only to wake up in a forest wearing a vintage ballgown, her sanity and resolve are pushed to the limit. Terrified that her unknown abductor will return, Zoe seeks out the help of Harry and Fergus. After Zoe is kidnapped again, how far will they go to save her life?
- 07
After Ray Tiernan, Harry's ex and Charlie's mentor, is murdered while running a secret investigation, Harry and Fergus will stop at nothing to unmask the killer.
- 08
Harry and Fergus take on the case of a woman who has vanished from an Irish village that has a history of devil worship and sacrifice. Did the missing woman stumble onto something that led to her death? Or was she murdered by somebody closer to home?
- 09
Professor Wild in the Library with the Revolver
Harry, Fergus, and Lola are invited to a murder-mystery party in a hotel on a secluded island. The fun quickly turns deadly as they realise a real murderer lurks among them, willing to kill everyone present.
- 10
He Could've Been a Contender until They Chopped His Arms Off
The popular owner of Fergus's boxing gym is found murdered in the Dublin Mountains. The gym was in debt, and the dead man had trouble with both his future wife and his ex-wife. Fergus asks Harry to help him find the killer.
- 11
Too Many Harrys Spoil The Murder
Harry and Fergus have to contend with a rival private detective, a gangster's henchman and an utterly baffling mystery when the girlfriend of a head chef's decapitated head is served up on a platter. Elsewhere, Paula makes a huge, life-changing announcement and Glenn pops the question to his long-time girlfriend, Petra.
- 12
A fellow P.I., Harry Benedict, inveigles his way into Harry's life by sending a particularly perplexing case her way. As Harry and Fergus attempt to work out how it's possible for a mystery writer to shoot himself in a locked panic room without a gun, they find the key to cracking the case might come from a very surprising source.
- 13
Harry and Fergus travel to the convent of a silent order of nuns after an old friend asks Harry to investigate a suspicious suicide, believing foul play is afoot. Elsewhere, a familiar face provides a very welcome surprise.
- 14
While attending a crime convention, Harry's look-alike is pushed to her death from a balcony. To stop the killer fleeing, Harry and Fergus get security to lock the building down while they investigate. A second murder reveals a chilling connection.
- 15
Sing Me a Deadly Song, Piano Man
Pathologist Pierce uncovers a deadly conspiracy when he links a string of seemingly accidental deaths through cryptic music tattoos. As he brings Harry and Fergus in on the case, secrets unravel, and an act of revenge spirals toward another kill.
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