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Paradox

TV·2009–2009·1 season, 5 episodes·BBC One·Drama, Science-Fiction·1h·6.8

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Mysterious images that show incidents 18 hours before they happen are transmitted from space. As a space scientist attempts to explain their source, detectives race against time to change the future.

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  1. 01Paradox S01E01Episode 1S01E01 · 7.4Dr Christian King, a world-renowned astrophysicist, claims to have received a series of images from space. The images show fragments of an event, an explosion in which many are killed. Shockingly, Dr Kingclaims the disaster is yet to happen. It will take place in 18 hours time.Is this an elaborate warning of a terrorist attack, or could it be something else? Uncertain, DI Rebecca Flint and her team investigate Dr King and the images. But as the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle come together, it becomes clear that this is a chain of events which no person could possibly predict or plan.With time running out a tragedy drawing closer DI Flint begins to contemplate the impossible - that the images might not be a coded warning or an elaborate threat, but a genuine glimpse of the future.
  2. 02Paradox S01E02Episode 2S01E02 · 7.2After her previous failure, Rebecca is determined not to make the same mistakes again. This time, she is desperate to change the future and save a boy's life. But with minutes to spare, Rebecca learns of asecond death scheduled to take place at the zero hour - DS Ben Holt's. Not knowing how or when he will die, Rebecca's quest to change the future becomes even more frantic.
  3. 03Paradox S01E05Episode 5S01E05 · 6.7Rebecca always suspected she was helping to cause the events they were supposed to stop. Now she is convinced of this and they receive images more intimate than anything they have previously dealt with. Every image points to a member of the team in some way. One shows a photo of some teenagers shot dead - and Rebecca's hand is holding the gun. Will she have the power to change the destiny that matters most, her own?

Cast

Tamzin OuthwaiteTamzin OuthwaiteDI Rebecca FlintChiké OkonkwoChiké OkonkwoDC Callum GadaMark BonnarMark BonnarDS Ben HoltEmun ElliottEmun ElliottDr. Christian King

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode5Episodes2009Aired 6.7Season avg
  1. S01E01Paradox S01E01Season's bestEpisode 1November 24, 2009 7.4Dr Christian King, a world-renowned astrophysicist, claims to have received a series of images from space. The images show fragments of an e
  2. S01E02Paradox S01E02Episode 2December 1, 2009 7.2After her previous failure, Rebecca is determined not to make the same mistakes again. This time, she is desperate to change the future and
  3. S01E03Paradox S01E03Episode 3December 8, 2009 6.0A serial rapist is due to violently attack and murder in a few hours, and Rebecca is determined not to let this happen. But Rebecca is begin
  4. S01E04Paradox S01E04Episode 4December 15, 2009 6.4The team receive double the amount of images in what appears to be their most unfathomable mystery so far. The images seem to be predicting
  5. S01E05Paradox S01E05Episode 5December 22, 2009 6.7Rebecca always suspected she was helping to cause the events they were supposed to stop. Now she is convinced of this and they receive image

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